YouTube launched a new video publishing service called Quick Capture earlier this week that allows people to record their content directly to YouTube rather than recording locally then uploading.

I gave it a try from home and had horrible results. There was a lot of freezing in the video playback likely caused by marginal upload speeds and a WiFi network connection. Today, I tried it from work with much better results:


Why would YouTube create this? First, it makes it very easy for people to publish content to YouTube, which is obviously the lifeblood of their service. But more importantly, content created through Quick Capture is more likely to appear solely on YouTube rather than on every video service site on the web.

Given a choice, I'd like to control the distribution of the content I create and publish it wherever I can to reach the largest possible audience. This means I'd like to publish the same video to YouTube, Google Video, Revver, Veoh, Blip, and whatever comes along next.

Business Opportunity

Someone needs to create a service that allows video publishers to push their content to EVERY online video site with one upload. Upload once, distribute everywhere. This would save video publishers a ton of time, allowing them to focus on creating great content rather than staring at upload status bars. It would also give new video startups access to a library of content to work with, allowing them to compete based on GUI and other features rather than inventory.