I just signed up for a Magnify.net account.

Magnify is another startup in the hot online video market. What Magnify allows you to do is set up your own personal online video channel but they do all the work! You sign up for an account and then they walk you through choosing a template and setting up the type of site you want to be. I set up Skate-Tube in minutes.

There are quite a few themes to choose from and the selection of video hosts searched is major – YouTube, yahoo Video, Google Video, Revver, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Veoh, AOL Video, ClipSyndicate and Blip.tv. Basically, the power of Magnify.net is to search the videos currently residing on these video hosts & then “bring them” to your Magnify site so you get instant content with a couple of mouse clicks.
magnify also supports uploading your own video content as well as pointing to a specific URL or even recording live from a web cam. Nifty.

One of the nicest features is built into their search function. You can automate the search for new content by saving your search criteria and having Magnify automatically process the serach every 1, 3, 7 or 10 days and then to automatically post the first 5, 10, 25 or 50 videos returned. Again, nifty! Of course, you have the ability to pick and choose which videos to publish or unpublish but the instant content is a major selling point. Not to mention, Magnify is handling all the storage and bandwidth for free(!!!).

The interface is slick enough and the usual user ratings and feedback are provided which means your new channel will have all the functionality of a YouTube or whatever right out of the box. Magnify is also kind enough to help you make money but including the ability to host your AdSense tags and splitting the impressions 50-50. Pretty damn nice of them!

If you’re interested I’d suggest checking them out as they seem to deliver on what they promise. Also be sure to check out the considerable competition from the likes of ChannelMe, VideoBloom and really slick startup Worldtv.

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