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Video mrktng question... My potential clients have in-office YT blocked...

by TimothyW
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Many of the potential customers I want to reach in a certain niche have company internet access that has YT blocked.

If I host my vids on Amazon s3, and use easy video Suite to embed them on a site, with they be able to view them then?? Does that get around the blocking problem?

-- TW
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    It should because they are only blocking a specific site, and not specific media.

    I have had a few clients also who have had Youtube and Facebook blocked and what I did was load up some videos on Dropbox and just sent them the link and they were able to watch the video no problem.

    So what you are talking about should work also.
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  • Profile picture of the author TimothyW
    Does the free version of dropbox offer *hotlinks* directly to your files?
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    Originally Posted by TimothyW View Post

    Many of the potential customers I want to reach in a certain niche have company internet access that has YT blocked.

    If I host my vids on Amazon s3, and use easy video Suite to embed them on a site, with they be able to view them then?? Does that get around the blocking problem?

    -- TW
    It depends what is blocked.

    At our office, YouTube is blocked but video streaming is also blocked. So even if we can get to a website that has video, we can't play the video through our firewall.

    If they can access other video sites or play videos on sites like CNN, then maybe all you need is a platform other than YouTube.

    But it is pretty easy to have security software that blocks streaming video, even if the site itself is not blocked.

    EDIT: Also make sure online shopping like Amazon isn't blocked because that may nuke the S3 servers on Amazon domains.
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    • Profile picture of the author TimothyW
      Originally Posted by onSubie View Post

      It depends what is blocked.

      At our office, YouTube is blocked but video streaming is also blocked. So even if we can get to a website that has video, we can't play the video through our firewall.

      If they can access other video sites or play videos on sites like CNN, then maybe all you need is a platform other than YouTube.

      But it is pretty easy to have security software that blocks streaming video, even if the site itself is not blocked.

      EDIT: Also make sure online shopping like Amazon isn't blocked because that may nuke the S3 servers on Amazon domains.
      Oh well. (((sigh)))
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