User:Schpick M/Yandex Video

Yandex Video is a search engine which provides the user with an ability to browse through the videos from Yandex and watch them on the site. Videos are picked from the third party video hosting sites and internet resources.

Yandex Video search was a free video hosting platform until 28 July 2014.

The site has a built-in top list, called top-20. In this list are shown the videos that have attracted the interest of the users a in the previous day. Algorithm chooses the videos based on the views and comments left on the other platforms, an amount of times it was linked to on blogs, behavior of the users and many other factors.

Video search
User has the ability to specify which videos are in his interest. It was implemented by including the video length and origin filters. The videos found can be sorted by the date of an upload (their "freshness").

Any video found from any platform of origin can be added to the playlist, or to the «Favorite videos», a collection that every user has by the default.

User has a «mild filtration» option turned on by the default, which removes the content that may be harmful for the minors from the feed.

Owners of the resources, which regularly upload their videos, can make an agreement with the company, to inform the company of the new uploads in XML format, which lets the videos appear faster in the users search results.

Yandex Video had an integration with blog website «Я.ру» before it was closed.

How video hosting worked
It was possible to not only upload videos, but also to save and store links to them from other video hosting platforms (YouTube, Rutube, Google Video). It was possible to upload directly from webcam with the help of Adobe Flash software. HTML form was used to mark the upload and the video itself. Uploads could be seen in «My videos» tab.

Fields «Name» и «Description» were used to annotate the uploads. Tags could also be used for making videos easier to find (by the author or any other user).

User could restrict the access to the video, there were options «Show to all», «Show only to friends» (from the «Я.ру» site), «Show only to the creator».

Videos could be stored in so called collections. One upload could be in more than one collection. Users were able watch the collections as automatically changing playlists. Videos could be sent to the default «Favorite videos» collection via the the heart-shaped link under the every video. User could add uploads made by other people, same as his, from any video hosting platform.

Collections could be sorted via automatic or custom sort, based on the name of the videos, their upload dates and etc.

Important changes
Yandex video hosting was shut off in 28 July 2014.

The only part left is a search engine, it continues its stable work and improves with every day. Videos can be uploaded on Yandex Disk, but the public video access will be limited. All the uploaded videos will appear on Yandex Disk.

Links

 * Клуб сервиса «Яндекс Видео» на Я.ру
 * Клуб сервиса «Яндекс Видео» на Я.ру