YouTube hosting question

theLotter

The "How it works" video that is embedded on my sites homepage is currently linked to an individual YouTube account not our company account.

I would like to change the ownership so that the company profile can enjoy the added views (currently 13K +). Is there a way to move the video to a different account without losing the views it has already accumulated?

Also, a related technical question - our R&D team says the video is slowing down the site. It links to YouTube but there is nothing in the source of our page about YouTube. Any suggestions for embedding it more effectively?

MoosaHemani

I don’t think there is any way you can shift the video to a different account without losing the videos and shares on that video. I am not really an expert but doing this does not make any sense to me!

As far as embedded code is concern, if you are using the one that is available on Youtube, the website should not slow down as the video is not hosted on your website. My advice would be to check some other JS in the header or on the page and see if you can optimize them as this usually cause a delay in page load time.

Hope this helps!

Again, I never played with videos much so my comment can’t be considered as expert opinion.

BlueprintMarketing

I agree with Moosa I think you can probably move your account without losing the views however I would not understand why you would want to move it but regardless. I think a great tool for what Moosa he is talking about with the JavaScript is feed the bot's page speed if you follow instructions in this you can optimize your site for speed and see some pretty dramatic changes.

http://www.feedthebot.com/pagespeed/

I think YouTube is very slow unfortunately even though it is an extremely powerful platform video is bandwidth hungry and without looking at your URL I could not tell you if I believed that your video embeds were slowing down the site however I doubt it. Sorry for the long post but this I think is relevant to your question regarding Site speed and video hosting.

as far is changing the ownership of your YouTube account I do believe that your views follow your videos to a new account.

I do not believe there is a way to move your videos to a different account without losing the shown views however if they are doing this well anyway you can move it to a video host like Wistia and simply let your customers know on YouTube that your new videos are at the link below the video you once had hosted on YouTube.

In Wistia you can show the amount of view's you may even want to talk to the company and explain your situation they may simply give you the credit for their views on YouTube on their service.

I do not know if you want to get traffic to your website or not but I would look at Wistia.com for the reasons described here

http://wistia.com/learning/advanced-seo-with-distilled

on top of that if you are doing things that teach people how to do things related to your business a good example would be whiteboard Friday and that is spoken about right here

http://wistia.com/learning/weekly-videos-with-moz

definitely check out your sites weaknesses and strengths using the tools below.

You may also want to buy screaming frog SEO spider this will allow you to check for multiple problems but before you spend money on that in less you need it for something else definitely use these free tools below specially Google pageSpeed

http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

http://www.webpagetest.org/

http://www.feedthebot.com/pagespeed/

http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/

you might just need to add a content delivery network or have your site audited use real user measurement to determine how slow your site really is Neustar , CopperEgg NewRelic & Pingdom are excellent for this purpose.

As far as speed up your existing infrastructure if you are happy where you are I would look at edge cast, Max CDN, cloud proxy and cloud flare though I do not think very highly of the last offer cloud flare.

I do not want to say it is not possible, but it sounds to me like you have an issue with their coding or with your hosting company.

Are you on a shared server? If so look at faster servers. If you want managed I like firehost.com their fast and they are safe There also around USD400 a month if you want to spend less than USD50 and get very fast hosting

check out speedy rails or Linode

https://www.speedyrails.com/ starting at USD15 a month for a VPS with SSD's and edge cast CDN that is a pretty sweet deal. There also throwing in DynECT DNS and all of this out of Peer1 data centers.

https://www.linode.com/ now has amazing SSD's

If you do not want to spend much money at all no worries you can get into a very fast host for under five dollars today

now if you do not care about managed hosting you can get excellent speed and service from both of these companies for prices starting literally under five dollars per a SSD VPS

https://www.digitalocean.com/

http://www.ramnode.com/

here are a couple others of all types of prices that I know are good.

If you want managed hosting and a VPS will do these are in the $50 up range

http://www.servint.net/ssd-vps-about.php

https://www.linode.com/managed note this company was provided above as well they have both non-managed and unmanaged

http://www.liquidweb.com/StormServers/ssd.html

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/

if you want what I think is the best then take a look at fire host

http://www.firehost.com/

I hope this answer was what you were looking for. I Tried to touch on everything with out knowing if you are talking about moving off of YouTube or not hopefully this is helpful to you.

Thomas