There are many great options for hosting your videos and integrating them into your learning management system or membership website. These are all live video options:
- Zoom: Zoom is great for teaching small groups and having everyone interact with each other. You can also do large webinar-broadcast style sessions.
- Ustream: I’ve used ustream many times to teach live demonstrations and answer questions that people enter via chat. I like how you can also embed a ustream event into a web page.
- Livestream: Livestream is also great at video, and even Oprah uses it on her site to stream episodes from her network live over the internet.
- CrowdCast: CrowdCast is awesome if you want to have the same chat environment, but you also want to bring other presenters on live via video feeds. It’s a very well thought out platform.
- WebinarJam: If you want to do webinar-style presentations on video or showing slides, then WebinarJam allows you to do that easily. It’s also great for free training webinars that lead to paid courses.
- Skype: Similarly to Google Hangouts, if you’ve got a premium Skype account you can also do live video with a few of your friends or contacts via Skype.
- GotoWebinar: If you don’t want to be on camera, but you are wondering how to teach classes online that have lots of material to be presented via slides – this is my pick.
- Adobe Connect: Similar to GotoWebinar, Adobe Connect is a great alternative that also lets you merge video with slides, so you can have the best of both worlds here too.
There are also some great pre-recorded video hosting options, including:
- YouTube: You’re already familiar with this platform, and it can be a great place to upload teaching material. You can choose to keep your video unlisted if you don’t want them to be searchable through YouTube. People can still share these videos though, so keep that in mind.
- Vimeo: There are a number of different plans and pricing options for Vimeo, and it’s a great video hosting solution. It is dependable and you can control the sharing permissions more than you can on YouTube. There are also some built-in payment options if you need something quick to take payments for video training immediately.
- Amazon S3: This is a more technical solution to help people record videos and teach classes online, but it is the most affordable paid solution. It also gives you a lot of flexibility in terms of how you want to display and track your videos. You’ll usually need a video player to get these to play inside of an LMS or members area.
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