Online TV station
Developing online TV station is a very good idea. But we would suggest not hosting the videos on your server but instead hosting them on free video hosting provider like YouTube and Blip. This way you will be save form spending money on necessary infrastructure for video streaming and can focus only on video making.
Why TV station?
You are doing great work always and always have great stories to share. Video is a great tool to share. So if you can have all your video at one place, the donor will have a good idea about your work and hence will most probably donate. As on internet nobody knows who you are, a visual story can impress them and make them feel that they are donating genuine NGO.
What kind of videos to put?
Videos of the following kinds create great attention and stimulate sharing:
I) The problems you are trying to solve. Show the criticality of the issue.
II) What work you are doing to solve those issues. The examples of your work.
III) A quarterly bulletin of your projects and its success rates. Interviews of people whom you helped.
IV) You can also invite your donors to upload their videos on why did they donate for the cause and how are they feeling after seeing the project success.
How 8i Creations can help you?
- We are developing online TV stations for a while and recently developed such one for our own company at 8iTV
- We work on YouTube APIs and BlipTV APIs
- We know how to integrate social media tools and donation tools to the TV station.
- You upload a video to YouTube. As soon as your video is uploaded it will automatically come to your site’s TV station.
- We also enable YouTube group uploading features so that your donors can upload their videos. Even they can upload to YouTube from your site.