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At present you tin can post videos directly to Reddit, no third-political party service required

Upload .mp4 and .mov files directly from your telephone or computer.

Now you can post videos directly to Reddit, no third-party service required

Reddit announced a large, and likely welcome, change coming to its site: native video uploads. After testing the feature out in about 200 communities, native video hosting will now curlicue out for all Reddit communities, giving every user the ability to upload and share videos on Reddit without the use of a third-party service. Until at present, users had to upload videos to another site and so post the video's link to Reddit in society to share.

Native video uploading is supported on both the desktop and mobile versions of Reddit. Users can upload pre-recorded videos from their devices; on the Reddit mobile app, you lot can shoot videos to upload immediately past giving the app access to your camera. Videos must be either MP4 of MOV files, and they can be no longer than 15 minutes. Yous can even brand gifs out of your videos by using Reddit's new MP4 converter, and videos uploaded through the mobile app can be trimmed to prove only the most important part. Since Reddit's core is its communities, the company fabricated it and so you lot could sentry videos and read posted comments at the same time. On desktop, the video actor will compress and stay at the acme of the page so you can ringlet through comments. On mobile, the video player remains at the top of the folio while the bottom-half is scrollable.

Reddit's weblog mail service cites user experience as i of the main reasons for its new native video hosting. It was previously a hassle for users to post a video to Reddit, and the viewing experience wasn't seamless. Reddit gave the aforementioned treatment to images last year when information technology cutting ties with its longtime partner Imgur in favor of native image hosting. Not only does native image and video hosting make information technology easier for users to upload and share content to their favorite subreddits, only it also cuts the amount of time users spend on third-political party sites.

Overstate / Reddit app on iOS: video plays at the top while you can scroll through comments on the bottom.

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What do companies want when users spend more than time on their site? Advertisements. According to a Variety report, Reddit has already been experimenting with different types of video advertising, but new native videos posted to the site won't take any ads on them for now. Reddit's video product manager, Emon Motamedi, said the company wouldn't rule out pre-scroll or other types of video advertising going frontward.

Reddit'due south native video hosting comes but after Facebook announced Watch, its new video platform for original video content. Reddit is a very different kind of social network from Facebook, or even YouTube, merely that could work in its favor if the company starts selling ads on its videos. Reddit is entirely based on community rather than individual users (similar YouTube is), and those subreddits are clear categories for advertisers to target. Reddit besides constitute that users participating in the native video beta test used video to extend conversations rather than build "private brands."

"We constitute that the almost engaging types of video weren't coming from popular users trying to establish their individual brands, equally you might meet on other platforms," Reddit'southward blog post detailed. "Instead, our video adopters so far have been creating and sharing videos to appoint within their specific Reddit communities, as an organic extension of conversations already happening on each subreddit."

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