VideoSeed provides website publishers with a direct source for tens of thousands of videos from 5min’s extensive how-to and knowledge-based content library. VideoSeed, the semantic heart of the 5min syndication network, utilizes the same unique script to deliver only the most relevant results on a per-page level across websites, offering a way to seamlessly integrate video content into existing textual websites.

As a 5min publisher, you can now easily seed videos from the 5min library into your website, and all in just a few easy steps! Choose how you want to seed – as a part of the VideoSeed range, you can decide exactly how video content will be added and displayed on your site, as well as what kind of content you’ll be seeding, by selecting specific niches.

In addition to a variety of display customization options to match your website’s layout and design, you can also select and customize the kind of content you wish to receive to your pages – simply select your niche and get only the content you need!

Want to find out how to get started with VideoSeed? Go here!

To hear more about the innovative VideoSeed capabilities and 5min’s syndication network, check out this exclusive Beet.TV interview with 5min’s CEO, Ran Harnevo.

We’re honored to have been chosen alongside such terrific companies whose work and services we value such as Boxee.tv, Kaltura, MyDamnChannel.com and Quantcast. We wish our peers at these companies continued success in the year ahead and hope to hear more from them in 2009.

Lastly, we’d like to take this opportunity to wish the 5min community, our partners and everyone involved with 5min a happy holiday season and a new year filled with joy, creativity, and of course – videos galore.

Thank you, Daisy!

The new and improved Smart Player offers you a complete video learning experience – for the first time, video, text, images and more join forces to provide you with a comprehensive one-stop shop for instructional content. Needless to say, we are beyond excited to let you all check it out and play around with all of the amazing features the new Smart Player brings to the table.

Now you can go beyond video, and enrich your how-to videos with Add-Ons - text guides and photos meant to enhance the video learning experience. This is an ideal place to incorporate recipes, tabs, lyrics, sketches and diagrams – almost anything you can think of that may help your viewers benefit to the max from your videos.

You can also create Scenes, or storyboards, to accompany your video and provide your audience with a detailed step-by-step visual process to follow.

Looking for the ideal place to plug your blog or website? Place it as a link in any of your videos, and help your viewers find you – that’s what the Links feature is for.

The best part about the new Smart Player is that all of its innovative features are available to you in the traditional watchpage display as well as in full-screen mode, and better yet, even when embedded – meaning you can take this entire neat package with you and use it on your blog or website.

In addition, you control your video viewing experience: click on the Zoom icon in order to zoom in or out of a specific area of the video you’re viewing, advance frame by frame, or opt for slow-motion play and set your own pace.

By clicking on the Related tab, you can easily access more great videos suited to your taste…The possibilities are endless. What are you waiting for? Go Smart!

Check it out here:

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the new Smart Player! Meanwhile, you are invited to play around, explore, and discover all the awesome things that await you at 5min. Can’t wait to upload a video of your own? Simply check out our easy, breezy Smart Upload .

On a personal sidenote, this has been one of the most fun projects I have had the privilege of working on – and no reward comes close to seeing it all go live, of course. Just imagine how great it’s been to finally be able to dream beyond video and add a personal Smart touch to it all. In fact, why not try it out for yourselves?

Cheers,

Ealeal & the 5min Team