Specialized Video Site for Birds and Birders

Birding is big. Video is bigger. Combine the two and you get birdcinema.com, a niche video platform for amateurs and professionals promoting conservation and birding in specific.

Video Marketing provides outreach to niche markets and Birdcinema.com provides access to casual birders as well as dedicated amateurs and professionals. By linking to your video clips, promoting it on social networking sites, and driving traffic back to your website, you can maximize the value of marketing with video. Birdcinema.com is a place where birdwatchers can place their video and pictures from their tours. Birdcinema is also a great video home for educate and promoting conservation. Doug Myers, a bird enthusiast, launched BirdCinema.com in July 2007. This is a video website for bird enthusiasts to watch and share original bird videos worldwide, through the web -- it's simply a website for user-submitted videos of birds, combined with a sharp and well-working real-time onscreen interface (i.e., just like YouTube).

Birdcinema also has a place for professional photographers to put pictures of their work. Birdcinema.com can bring traffic to your website. The site has had 1.3 million videos viewed since our lauch date in June 2007.

Here is a list of some of birdcinema.com's features.

• Complies with web 2.0
• Streamlines the workflow
• Includes a way to transfer videos from other video web sites
• Has a dedicated area, bird TV for documentaries, how to and other educational videos
• Includes a picture section where pictures can be uploaded and are secure

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