Thursday, October 2, 2008

A new (?) video resource

This may be old news to you, but I just got hip to Newsmarket, a resource for journalists looking for online video content. I came across the site on Environmental Leader (a great resource in itself for business writers looking to stay on top of green trends).

It seems as if most of the video content on Newsmarket comes from corporate communication sources, which makes it both familiar, and suspect. You do have to register and create an account, but once that hurdle is passed, it seems like most -- if not all -- video content is free.

Best of all, the site content is broken down by "beat," which IMHO is a great way to organize a website!

Not sure if the embed is as easy as YouTube, though. Still, a quick search for the companies that you cover is never a bad idea, no matter the platform.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the Environmental Leader plug. I think News Market is a great resource, but I don't believe there's an easy way to embed their video into stories (like youtube)- which is why Environmental Leader doesn't use it as a source directly. If there is a way to do this, I'd like to hear about it.