You may have noticed that the last two dailies posted on Spacevidcast are using a different player, namely Blip.tv.  We’re currently experimenting with the best method to not only post our videos to Spacevidcast.com but also to as many distribution points as possible.  TubeMogul is one option but they limit what we’re allowed to do.  So we’re giving Blip.tv a shot.

The advantage of Blip.tv is that we have one dashboard where we can check comments no matter where our videos are distributed, well, in theory at least.  We’re able to quickly and easily upload to not just YouTube but also Vimeo, Facebook, Archive.org and others.  The biggest reason I wanted to try them out though is the revenue sharing model they have.  Spacevidcast costs a lot to run and while we have been toying with the idea of ‘Pro’ subscriptions, I am hoping we can keep a good chunk of the site free.  And to do that we’ll need to have advertisers.

Right now there are a few… glitches.  For example, users on slower connections may not have a very good viewing experience.  The Ads (currently a tampon ad, um, w00t?) seem to play atop the videos so you miss the first chunk and you can no longer view our videos on your iPhone. Blip.tv is aware of these issues and is working on them, some already fixed and apparently others to be fixed later tonight / early tomorrow.

I don’t know if we will stay with Blip.tv, but I can say that we need to play around a bit to see what works from a technology perspective and balance that with an advertising strategy.  Please stick with us as we play with some of this tech, which at times, may be really broken.