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Deconstructing Stephen Fry

Sunday, November 16th, 2008 | Social Media, Video Content, WOM | No Comments
Stephen Fry (Steve Forrest for The New York Times)

Stephen Fry (Steve Forrest for The New York Times)

I’m really liking StephenFry.com, he has turned into a celebrity Social Media Evangelist.

The only thing that I question about his whole concept is the use of his own video content? Why is it not being hosted on a platform like Vimeo, Revver or Viddler? If people could embed his video content onto their own blogs and websites it would travel so much further, enabling him to gain more attention from the blogosphere and social video websites such as the ones that I have mentioned above.

I keep seeing various websites self hosting video content, personally think this is an expensive solution in comparison to all the free, community enabled, social video websites that are available.

In addition to cost the efficiencies of using social video websites, the marketing and distribution benefits exceed what can be achieved through self hosting.

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