Sharing Videos on Google Video

Sharing video is as simple as clicking “browse” to find a video and “upload” to start sharing. Google Apps gives video owners multiple controls for sharing videos such as:

Share videos with individuals, groups, or the entire organization
Add descriptions and tags
Embed videos in any internal web page, including Google Sites

Viewers across the organization can:

Search for any video to which they have access
View high-quality video from popular browsers (including Safari on iPhone)
Submit ratings, comments and additional tags
Optionally download videos for viewing offline or on portable devices

Google Video for business is available to Google Apps Premier Edition accounts at no additional cost. Each Google Apps Premier Edition domain gets 3GB of Video storage per user account. Existing Premier Edition administrators can enable Google Video for business immediately from the Google Apps control panel.

Google Apps Premier Edition – Google Video

With Google Video for business, anyone can upload a video on anything ranging from executive communications to product training to trip reports and share it securely with individuals or the entire company. Google Video is available as part of Google Apps Premier Edition at no additional cost.
“YouTube” has enabled millions of consumers to easily capture and share video at an unprecedented level, yet corporate videos have remained expensive and complicated.
With Google Video for business, companies can leverage the power and intimacy of video to communicate all flavors of corporate information including:
Leadership communications such as business updates and corporate announcements
Training and how-to videos to share product knowledge and business expertise
Customer insight derived from site visits, interviews, or focus groups
Social videos that evangelize relevant activity and initiatives across an organization
Cost and complexity have, until Google Video came along, limited the effective use of video to improve business functions.

Google Video for Business

Four Main Reasons Why Google Video for Business Can Be a Serious Business Tool:

1) Share rich video information – Video sharing makes important communications like internal trainings, and corporate announcements more personal, appealing and valuable.

2) Keep videos secure and private – Employees can securely share videos with select coworkers or everyone at the company without making confidential information public.

3) No large files or complex communications – Google securely hosts and streams your videos, so employees don’t need to share videos over email, or burden the IT department for a video explanation.

4) Everyone at your company can contribute – Employees can share videos instantly. Viewing and annotating doesn’t require any special software, just a standard browser.

Google Video can provide significant opportunities for innovation and savings within a company. Google video for business uses the same infrastructure that powers YouTube, but the one big difference between Google Video for business and YouTube is security.

Google Video

Google Video is a free video sharing website and also a video search engine from Google. Google Video allows select videos to be remotely embedded on other websites and provides the necessary HTML code alongside the media, similar to YouTube. This allows for websites to host large amounts of video remotely on Google Video without running into bandwidth or storage capacity issues. On October 9, 2006 Google bought former competitor YouTube.


In 2009, Google posted that they are no longer offering uploads to Google Video. Google wants to focus their mission on search and search technology. This will allow Google Video to spend more time on technologies that make the information contained in online video more available and accessible, enabling users to search all kinds of videos across the web. Although you can no longer upload videos to Google Video, you can still upload videos to Picasa and YouTube.


This change does not apply to Google Video for business. Google Video for business is part of Google Apps Premier Edition, and it lets employees share video content with each other, like team updates and recordings of training sessions and guest speakers. Business users can continue to upload and share videos, and the service is actively being developed.