MyVideo channel and interface updates

Published by Charl Norman on Nov 28th, 2007, 5 Comments

I just picked up that MyVideo has made changes to their interface with a sexy looking new header (pictured below) and a new content channel area called ‘iViews’. Their new channel features interviews with prominent South African personalities. Surfing through the MyVideo site I was impressed with the quality of videos on display. I also noticed the MyVideo flyer ads on Facebook promoting their Minkie video which seemed to do well as the video has over 20k views.

In their own words regarding ‘iView’

South Africans are a diverse bunch. Some are incredibly intelligent, some are breathtakingly beautiful, some are both. An unlucky handful are neither. Every week on iViews, MyVideo brings you a fresh new video interview with a well-known South African – we’ll leave it up to you to decide which of the above descriptions they match most closely! Politicians, sports stars, top models, TV personalities – if they’re hot right now – in whatever way – we’ll bring them to you on iViews!

The new header

my video

Tristan Owen

Hi Charl,

Thanks for the coverage and picking up on the new look. We’ve worked hard to improve the overall design, including our flash player, channels, sharing features and general layout. I’m glad you like the ‘sexy’ header. We hope our community feels the same and enjoys the iViews channel, some interesting interviews coming up.

All the best,

Tristan
http://www.zoopedup.com Charl Norman

Yo dude

Glad you dropped by – I told Michael earlier today he needs to keep me informed of MyVideo developments as I want to blog about all SA startups on BandwidthBlog

MyVideo is looking great and features awesome content.. rock on
Adrian

I think it looks good but find that the site is based far too much on Youtubes breakdown of content and menus, and the player design is taken from brightcove.tv .. surely possible to do something original?
http://www.zoopedup.com Charl Norman

Good points Adrian

MyVideo has come a long way and they have tweaked their interface considerably since launch so I think they will get there

With regards to the player Brightcove use the same flash file player as they do – its a freely available open source player

Yea maybe they should spend time skinning it .. but thats another point
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