Online video is instantly global, searchable, on demand and with viewing stats that are easily measured. Whether you want content for your website, broadcast live worship services, or just show the human side of your congregation, you need to have a presence in the digital world, you need to be using online video.

Creating video for your site

Providing a video for your site visitors is a three step process.

1. Create a video with compelling content,
2. Encode the video for web delivery, and
3. Deliver the encoded video from your site

Full details:
http://webvalence.com/customers/web/prepare-video-web.html

Posting video on your site

Once your masterpiece is ready to go global, where do you post it? YouTube is the ubiquitous choice, and its new HD tools make it even more compelling. YouTube recently switched its player aspect ratio to 16:9, so now all 4:3 clips have black bars on the side. Newly added widescreen clips, of course, now take advantage of the full window of the player. Check out the new "YouTube Insight," which is basically Google Analytics for clips. You can see a global chart of who is watching your videos.

Here is some information on how to make and prepare video for YouTube, which is the easiest way to get the mosts eyes on your video:
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/

Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. We provide the best tools and highest quality video in the universe. See for yourself and Join today!

And of course there are many other providers out there like Revver, BlipTV, Imeem and Facebook, TubeMogul allows you to upload to all these sites in one swoop.

Live video on your site

Ustream.TV is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size. In less than two minutes, anyone can become a broadcaster by creating their own channel on Ustream or by broadcasting through their own site, empowering them to engage with their audience and further build their brand.

Founded in October 2006, Justin.tv is the largest online community for people to broadcast, watch and interact around live video. With more than 41 million unique visitors per month and 428,000 channels broadcasting live video, Justin.tv is the leading live video site on the Web, enabling users to create real-time connections with others around the world.