I’ve been wanting to do live video interviews for a long time now. The closest I got, a couple years ago, I did two different *recorded video interviews* with Shawn Casey and Joel Comm. They turned out to be some of the highest converting interviews I ever did. (In the Joel Comm interview, that’s where I did the ‘Adsense Pirate’ character you see above.)

It was a major pain in the ass 2 years ago. (and this was just *recorded interviews*) Todd Gross helped me orchestrate and record the streams as a 3rd party. And then he edited all the streams together. Like I said - a major pain.

I also did a product called Web Traffic Videos right after the above interviews. I used Camtasia to record a skype video conversation and it worked *ok*. Skype didn’t like recording the camera for more than a few minutes at a time - it got choppier and choppier. I’m still concerned this will happen.

Anyway, so, today we set out to test all the top live streaming video services to see which (if any) could handle my long sought desire to do live streaming video interviews. I checked out Ustream, Justin.tv, Stickam, Mogulus, BlogTV, and PalTalk. (PalTalk sponsored that viral ‘your name is running for president’ campaign last month - so, I figured I’d throw them in there.)

Here’s the video review that I did of all 6 sites.


Video Services Review - Broadcast your self LIVE

Remember now, I was looking for the best service for *one particular function* and that was to do Live Streaming Video Interviews. The above video is recorded using BlogTV. It shows a side by side stream of my co-host; but when the show was live it was picture in picture.

Sadly, the technology is still not quite there yet. However, I still may do some live interviews with BlogTV. My only other alternative is to use Skype Video Chat and record it with Camtasia. (My recent test seemed better than the past — and I’m really close to just biting the bullet and getting a Mac b/c everything like this I see from a Mac is phenomenal!)

Alright, that’s it for now. Please let me know what you think of this review and feel free to let me know if there’s any other sites we missed.

Keep Having Fun,

Harris Fellman
The Weekly Buzz

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