Yes, there is YouTube for video sharing. Why leave video hosting and sharing left only to big boys. There is significant amount of money to be made from niche video sharing websites. And iScripts want to help you create the video hosting site. You can create a YouTube, Google video, Dailymotion etc.. type web community with iScripts VisualCaster. You want to clone the success a number of video hosting sites, this is your chance without spending big bucks to create something from scratch.

Thank you for all who helped us in the beta phase with your feedbacks. iScripts VisualCaster 1.0 is released this week. It is priced at $49.95 . As with all other iScripts products, VisualCaster is open source. So if you have an idea for a video sharing web site most likely you can use iScripts Visual caster out of the box. If you have some unique requirements you would be able to modify to meet your specs. Or you can contact our development team to make the changes for you.

You can create a video sharing website as a standalone site or as an extension of your existing community site.

Here is some of the main features of the script:

Simple site management - Powerful admin panel to manage all aspects of the site. No need to know programmingEasy to upload and share videos.

Supports Google Adsense and regular banners - Generate revenue.

Video Channels. - You can have multiple video channels.

Message Area. - Community users can communicate each other to increase return users

Groups. - Social networking groups can be created by users to increase stickiness.

Different layouts/themes to choose from.

Favorite List - Users can save their favorite videos into favorite list.

User Playlist Management .

Unencrypted source code for easy customization - You can customize look and feel of the site as well as functionalities. If you are not sure we can customize it for you. .

Friends Management - users can add/edit/invite friends.

User friendly installer wizard.

Free one year support and free upgrades .

Supports all popular video types and image types.

Supports tag clouds.

Copy embed video codes for social networking sites/ forums.

The video sharing site will be working from your server/ hosting account. Not ours. Only special requirement for the server is to have FFEMPG . Just check with your hosting provider if your account supports it. There a number of economical hosting companies that supports FFEMPG. If you cannot find any, ask our support team, we can suggest few options.

If you have any suggestions for new features to add to iScripts VisualCaster. We are always looking for ways to improve our products.

Aji Abraham