Video Clip

This page is about the visual medium. Video clips in parts of Europe are synonymous with music videos. For the Thai film see Video Clip (2007 film).

A frame from a video clip of the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami striking Ao Nang, Thailand.

Video clips are short clips of video, usually part of a longer recording. The term is also more loosely used to mean any short video less than the length of a traditional television program.

 On the Internet

With the spread of Internet global accessing(fastest Internet broadband connection of TCP with accumulator cables and semi fast connection), video clips have become very popular online. By mid-2006^[update] there were tens of millions of video clips available online, with new websites springing up focusing entirely on offering free video clips to users and many established and corporate sites adding video clip content to their websites. With the spread of broadband Internet access, video clips have become very popular online. Whereas most of this content is non-exclusive and available on competing sites, some companies produce all their own videos and do not rely on the work of outside companies or amateurs.

A detailed icon for video e.g. to link to video content on a website

While some video clips are taken from established media sources, community or individual-produced clips are becoming more common. Some individuals host their created works on vlogs, which are video blogs.

The use of Internet video is growing very fast. Between March and July of 2006, YouTube grew from 30 to 100 million views of videos per day.^[1] More recent developments includes the BBC's iPlayer, which was released for open beta testing in July 2007.

 Clip culture

The widespread popularity of video clips, with the aid of new distribution channels, has evolved into 'clip culture'. It is compared to 'lean-back' experience of seeing traditional movies, refers to the Internet activity of sharing and viewing a short video, mostly less than 15 minutes. The culture began with the development of broadband Internet service, and has seen a boom since 2005 when websites for uploading clips emerged on the market, including Shockinghumor, YouTube, Google Video, MSN Video and Yahoo! Video.^{[citation needed]}

Such video clips often show moments of significance, humour, oddity, or prodigy performance. Sources for video clips include news, movies, music video and amateur video shot. In addition to clips recorded by high-quality camcorders, it has become more common to produce clips with digital cameras, webcams, and mobile phones.

 Advertising

Online video advertising is emerging as a powerful platform to deliver an impactful, interactive and