Capitalizing on the Bing brand, Microsoft is consolidating MSN Video into Bing Videos. If you go to video.msn.com it redirects to Bing Video. The new video search destination lets you both search for videos on the Web and watch them within the Bing player.
The main video page is set up to help you browse and discover videos, with featured videos in a large player across the top and tabbed categories below that including editorial picks, viral clips, “Last Night on TV”, and the “Best of Bing.” A lot of this looks like a direct port from MSN Video. there is still even a tab called “Most Watched On MSN Video.” They might want to change that now.
Bing Video brings in videos from YouTube, Hulu, ABC and more, and directly hosts 900 TV shows. When you search for a show like True Blood, you get Bing’s familiar guided navigation on the left, which lets you narrow down your search by season, episodes, trailers, length, and format.
The Bing video player also has a lights-out mode. You kind of get the feeling that Bing doesn’t want you to leave. Of course, neither does Yahoo Video, Google Video, Blinkx, or most other video search engines these days. But Bing Videos is such a better brand. What MSN property will be subsumed into Bing next?
I like the move. MSN reminds me of chatting in high school, while Bing is a brand name that – I think – has a wider potential audience.
okay so who remember the BING-JING-A-LING contest held last 4 months? whenever I hear BING + video that weird vid always appear on my mind. I hope this is new (oh wait what was the topic?)
http://bit.ly/b...rcial-how-crazy
I think every company has a set niche with users at this point. YouTube for video, Microsoft for OS, Apple for iPod, Google for search ect…
I really just think companies that are lucky to have a huge niche should find new niches instead of trying to cut into huge marketshare of another company, let a startup go for that crown then buy them when they do.
Maybe they will saq up and offer clickable (click to buy) video ads on their Network…. unlike Google.
Microsoft should rename itself Bing
But It is Not Google ( BING)!!!!
Its not bad honestly. No replacement for youtube, but its not bad.
At least it is not asking me to install Silverlight to watch YouTube videos!
The “play-video-on-hover” also seems to be working.
Oh, they are using Adobe’s Flash. Hm…
Every time I follow the same procedure when visiting a new Bing site. Go there, click something once and then go back to Google sites.
WOW…. simply amazing….
i am liking it….
looks good. much better than youtube.
not sure what they mean by “hot viral clips” though. it appears to just be “popular clips” from around the web.
the Bing brand seems a good move on MSFT’s part.
just six months ago on TC people were thinking “bing” was a bad call… especially those of you wanting to call it “sift”.
i love bing
I didn’t know MSN video existed. I didn’t know MSN existed still. Wasn’t that Microsoft’s attempt at being an ISP, like 10 years ago? It’s still around?
Also, flash and not silverlight…. wow.
The reason it’s flash and not silverlight is because it’s video search, as in bringing in video from other services, other services which use flash.
nice to have a selection of different video search options, Bing and Google and Yahoo.
one word: bingdows. Huh, like it?
All of the news video is NBC. For a search engine aspiring to replace Google… ummmmm.
Bing is a brand name… MS makes money from advertising videos hosted on thier site – not from videos on Google. The fact that all of the news videos are from NBC has to do with the fact that they are partners in the online video venture. It has nothing to do with a political point of view.
FYI: Fox Sports (a Newscorp company) is also available on Bing Video
Just tested out the new Bing Videos. It is pretty amazing. Apart from aggregating all videos from YouTube, MySpace, Daily Motion etc. Bing Videos also aggregates all Hulu videos from NBC, FOX, ABC, Comedy Central and all of the Cable Networks. It also combines videos from CBS, MTV Fox Sports and the CW.
The Silverlight High Definition quality for the latest Twilight Trailer is really amazing at fullscreen. The best quality I have seen anywhere. http://bit.ly/3i5di8
I’m glad you like it, mister Microsoft shill.
Seriously Microsoft, these astroturfing tactics are really pathetic. Please stop.
cool…i like this move!
Thanks, Erick. Was searching for the “Lizzy Caplan Drug Induced Sex Scene in True Blood”. Thanks lol.
But serious, it looks amazing (Bing Videos). YouTube looks so terrible compared to Bing Videos and the other video sites.
Good idea to make the change
Definitely a good call. Bing is proving itself to be a solid brand heading into the future while MSN is fading away.
Will Microsoft change their company name to Bing?
Bing Windows.
Bing Word.
I wouldn’t be surprised – give it a few years.
looks good to me, I never even knew msn videos existed.
I like Bing
cool…i like this move!