Liven up your social community with member contributed video content. Your members can link to videos on a wide variety of video platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo and Yahoo or upload their own right to your server.
 Feature it, like a boss.
Just like in Photo Gallery, Spark communities provide an elegant place to display featured videos. Video page layouts are customizable including full page displays additional information, related videos and horizontal sliders to easily new videos
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 A dose of social networking
Every time a user posts a new video, or someone comments on a video, it will be shown in the activity stream. And anyone who already commented on the video or joined a group where the video is posted, may receive on-site notifications and email notification.
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 Direct Upload from user computers
Spark social communities come preloaded with a powerful video publishing suite that allows members to upload videos directly from their computers. Uploaded videos can be hosted on your server or If needed, you may enable 3rd party processing and storage solutions like Amazon S3 to offload to the cloud.
All common video files are supported, from AVIs to MKVs. If the videos are not suitable for streaming online, they are re-encoded either on your server or by Zencoder.
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 Video linking from YouTube, Vimeo and others
Make it easy for your members to contribute their favorite videos to your community. All they need is a link to their favorite page and we do all the work. Embedding is available from the top 20 video providers like YouTube, Vimeo and LiveLeak.
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 Made for powerful servers, friendly for the small ones
Video publishing takes a lot of processing power, but that doesn't mean you have to worry about it slowing down your community. Spark communities integrate 3rd party video processors, Zencoder and Amazon S3 to offload video processing to the cloud. Optionally you can allow only video linking from 3rd party video sources like YouTube.
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