Video Distribution like Traffic Geyser - is it worth it post Panda 2012

Hey guys, love this place... although i am a new paying member...

here is the question. I have for the past year or so used Traffic Geyser (Main Street Marketing Fusion) to upload and distribute videos. This has helped my with getting more links to my site and overall my main site is doing pretty well.

... my subscription has run out for TG... its like a hundred bucks a month to keep it going. now that being said, i recently picked up and have been going through the training of Ninja Curation Profits. (really enjoyed that training by the way)

so here is my question... seeing how Panda has changed the SEO world and it seems like link building has been changed in favor of having interaction, tweets, comments, etc... what do you guys think about video distribution. is it necessary, is it still worth doing something like TG? or is it better simply to post to youtube, do the optimization there, and then, post to the social media and book marking sites that you posted the youtube video. what is working for you guys? I need a new game plan on how to post my videos. (I am fine on the youtube SEO),

so to sum up:
1) are you still doing a distribution link building system like tubemugal or TG?
2) or are you using a system like onlywire to tell the networks that you just posted a video, but only posting the video in youtube?
3) do you use the share to network feature built into youtube?
4) have you seen a difference in manually tweeting / google + / Facebook with different language saying you have a new video vs. a post syndication like onlywire/pixel pipe, etc.
5) any other thoughts suggestions on how to get the best traffic / bang from videos? (and again, im on sitemap/mark up code, etc for the youtube video it self)

Thanks!