I need a YouTube-like video on a commercial site, in order to server up "a message from the CEO" and YouTube won't work because it might send people off to YouTube. Any recommendations? Would prefer a paid solution.
We use Vimeo - free - and got turned off YouTube because it promoted our competitors videos at the end of ours.
Thanks! I am currently looking at http://www.longtailvideo.com/jw-player/ and wondering if anybody has experience, good or bad, with this player?
are you looking to do more than just one video? How big is the video? You can use amazon s3 is a way to store your videos. You have easyvideo player if you looking to do more marketing. Or if your site is a wordpress site their are plenty of plugin that you can use to host your video. If you looking to market yur video now youtube is the best platform to go on. You can always end the video and do and extended run with a link back to your youtube channel or another video.
JW-player is a good idea, you should also try somethng from these: http://www.instantshift.com/2010/05/14/21-free-video-players-for-your-website-and-blogs/ It might be a good idea to send people to Youtube and create more videos from your business. Thanks to it you can create some community around your brand. You can also use Vimeo where you won't see your competition. I used JW-player but you have to test it for your purposes and see if it fits to your website.