Some of my reviewer colleagues have been expecting this for some time, over the last few months even more so. Well, the day finally happened. Blip has sent out emails to people who haven’t been purged from the video hosting service that they will soon be going offline as of August 20th, 2015, in other words next month. The few reviewers still on Blip have been not so much surprised by the move as, I would think, when. That means they have one month to find a new host, post all of their videos to that host (and the more content they have the longer that will be), and change the embed codes on either their site or whatever collective they are a part of.
Of course it’s not just reviewers on Blip. While I have never heard if the fictional or documentary producers were hit with the two purgings from Blip.tv, they will certainly be affected now. Sci-fi westerns, LGBT teen dramas, auto showcases–they’re all going away unless they find a new host. And while that sounds easy…it really isn’t. But people did see this coming.
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