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FashionTube is a video-sharing website dedicated to fashion videos on which users can view, share and upload videos. It beta launched June 12, 2012 and is the first open video platform exclusively hosting fashion videos. Although not officially launched, FashionTube sent out a "First Release" to press and fashion industry on October 25, 2012 after reaching 5,000 user uploaded videos and an unknown number of registered users including fashion photographers, directors and fashion brands. The design of the website and embed player makes it a popular tool for bloggers and fashion press to embed videos from.

Known users include Daily Mail, models.com, Women's Wear Daily, etc.

The company is based in New York, but has a number of high speed servers located in Kansas City, Missouri. It uses HTML5 technology throughout the site with no plug-ins required for users to view and upload videos. Unlike other known video-sharing sites there are no limits to how many gigabytes users can upload and no bandwidth limits when streaming content. FashionTube is free to use.

Search
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Search

Users can search through all videos on the site by entering words or sentences into the search field. Each video has a number of associated keywords or so called index terms that are used to increase the quality of the search results. FashionTube is known to have more keywords per video than other video-sharing sites which, in combination with the fashion only focus, makes it easier for viewers to find relevant content.

Search Indexing

Search results can be sorted by the user from the following parameters:

Category — Film. Television. Shows. Campaigns. All

Popularity — Most viewed. Most liked. Top Rated. All

Time — This week. This month. This year. All time.

Parameters can be used individually or simultaneously to narrow down any given search.

Content
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Categories

There are a variety of categories and subcategories that videos are indexed by to help users find relevant content.

Films — Fashion Films. Beauty Films. Accessory Films.

Television — Backstage Videos. Interviews. News & Reportage. Events & Parties.

Documentaries. Shopping TV.

Shows — Catwalk. Presentations.

Campaigns — Fashion Campaigns. Beauty Campaigns. Accessory Campaigns.

Inspirational

FashionTube site presents a selection of inspirational videos categorized by:

Featured Videos — selected by FashionTube

Recent Videos — selection of newly uploaded videos

Most Popular — selection based on number of views, likes and rating

The Featured Videos are displayed on the cover page of FashionTube and are updated daily. The selection includes New Releases and Vintage Films.

Features
Sharing

FashionTube provides an embed player and code for every video on the site. Users can share content using a variety of social media including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+ and Tumblr.

Uploading

Users can upload videos with a maximum file size of 1GB per video. Information such as title, description and keywords is completed by the user.

FashionTube accepts videos uploaded in the following formats:

.mov - Quicktime Movie

.wmv - Windows Media Video

.mp4 - MPEG-4 Video

.avi - Audio Video Interleave

.webm - WebM

.flv - Flash video

.mv4 - Apple Movie