StumbleUpon is an important source of traffic for my blogs, especially those that are geared to the consumer and not towards webmasters. So you can understand why my stumbling upon StumbleVideo today was rather exciting for me. Since my vlog has only 50 or so subscribers, I’m particularly interested in sending traffic to that site.
StumbleUpon video works much like the original, only there’s no need for a toolbar to surf. Also, the site is absolutely gorgeous, presented in a decidedly Web 2.0 fashion.
From Mashable:
The service logs all your ratings in the “history” section, and you can register with StumbleUpon to have that data saved in your account. Just like Pandora or Last.fm, StumbleVideo uses your ratings to find more videos you might like, and it also allows you to email a link to your friends. What’s more, StumbleVideo can connect you to people who also enjoyed that particular clip. If you want your viewing to be a bit more structured, meanwhile, you can explore “channels” like Arts, Animation, Health and History.
With 3M stumbles per day, StumbleUpon is clearly showing substantial growth. Whether or not they can parlay this success into video is still up in the air, but it looks great to me. I particularly like that you can view Google Video, YouTube and MySpace Video. I’ll report back when I see any results with my own stuff.
You may also be interested in the perpetual traffic that an advertisement at StumbleUpon can give you. I found out about this from a comment Greg Hartnett left on the blog I found StumbleVideo on. I’m definitely going to try this on my own sites.