The Hey!Spread API has been updated, here are the changes:

Credentials checking

To know if the credentials are valid or not. This is very convenient because a lot of people are not sure about their credentials.
See the doc

Job restart

You can restart a job only if it’s done. This could be convenient to restart if there are some FAIL with no explanation or timeout error.
See the doc

Note that these two features were already present in the interface.

We’ve also added a PHP sample (really simple). You can see all the examples here.

First all the team wishes you a Happy New Year with all the best for both professional and personal things in 2008. At the same time, Happy Birthday to Hey!Watch which is one year old. Many thanks for using and trusting our Video Encoding Web Service.

We have just released two brand new feature to avoid “FAIL” status and optimize your uploads on Hey!Spread.

Credentials Checking

Click the grey “Check” button to know if you entered right login and password for the destination site before uploading.

“FAIL” Restarting

Sometimes, the destination site may encounter an unexpected error. Click the “Restart” button to relaunch the upload and make it successful.

The Forum

You can now join the community and share your knowledge or issues about Hey!Spread. So, get involved.

Regarding the growing demand from both companies and individuals, it’s time for Hey!Spread to highlight its skills as a professional and robust Video Promoting Web Service. We now allow people to brand, promote and mass-distribute their video assets over the Web easily, quickly and efficiently. Save time, get exposure, create the Buzz and make any video web campaign successful.

New Business Model

Consequently, our current business model is not adapted anymore. We decided to adopt the same basis as Hey!Watch, our professional Video Encoding Web Service:

• Pay only for what you use
• No start-up cost
• A unique cheap price of $0.05 or 0.03€ per credit (no more free). 1 credit allows you to upload one video to one site
• 100% flexible: just add credits to your account according to the number you really need
• Unlimited in time: you can use your credits without any deadline. No pressure and no waste of money

Innovative features

Besides, we add brand new features for all the video professionals on the Web:

• Distribute: Upload your video over almost 20 sites in one shot



• Monitor: Know in real-time when your video is available on all the portals
• Watermarking: Overlay a logo in your videos to build and enhance your brand – powered by Hey!Watch
• Encoding: Be 100% sure your video format will be accepted by all the portals – powered by Hey!Watch
• API for developers: Use Hey!Spread in white label from your site via the API
• Join: Add your video site to our Network and make yours even more famous
• Many source: Send video from computer or the Web
• Notification: Get automatically your final video links by email
• Pricing: Enjoy a totally flexible pricing. Just fit your needs or budget

Please, do not hesitate to give us your feedback.

Watermarking is available on Hey!Watch. You can now overlay any image (logo, avatar, brand,…) in your encoded videos. So, personalize and make your videos identifiable by your target. Need to make Visual Video Ads, you said?

We propose options to customize your watermarking, so have a look at the encoding options section if you use the API.

Or check the encode page if you use the graphical interface.

We’ve just added a new popular website, Sumo.tv, “The UK’s Leading Video Sharing Community”.
So, from now, spread your videos over 16 video platforms at a time.

We are turning in. It’s HD time and the future is already here. One more time, following several demands, HD is available and you can encode in the highest video standards (720p, 1080p). Encoding in HD will just cost one credit more than normal standards. For the first 45 minutes it will be 2 credits and then 2 credits more for each additional 15 minutes.
For instance, for a video whose length is 90 minutes, you will have:
45 + 15 + 15 + 15, that means 2 credits + 6 credits = 8 credits. Now, give your videos a new dimension.

Following several demands of allowing to encode longer videos, we go through. Many of you suggest to pay more credits for this. It’s what we have done. For the first 45 minutes it is still 1 credit and then 1 credit more for each additional 15 minutes.
For instance, for a video whose length is 90 minutes, you will have:
45 + 15 + 15 + 15, that means 1 credit + 3 credits = 4 credits. Now, simply break your limits.

Nellymoser, the popular audio codec, is now supported by Hey!Watch. This codec improves and empowers the Mobile and Flash experiences. Besides, all the external acquisition multimedia devices, as Webcam for the most famous one, make video recording using this audio codec.

Encoding videos having this audio codec is now possible.

We’ve just added two new video networks:

How to miss the phenomenon? Facebook is in the place and you like it, Hey!Spread do too.

Besides, sevenload “the media platform” has also been added.

So, from now send your videos over the 15 best video networks.

The ruby library for Hey!Watch is finally released.
To install it:

gem install heywatch

Here is an example:

require 'heywatch'
include HeyWatch

Base::establish_connection! :login => 'login', :password => 'password'

raw_video = Download.create(
:url => 'http://host.com/video.avi',
:download => true) do |percent, total_size, received|
puts "#{percent}%"
end

ipod_format = Format.find_by_name('iPod 4:3')
encoded_video = Job.create(:video_id => raw_video.id, :format_id => ipod_format.id) do |percent|
puts "#{percent}%"
end

puts "downloading #{encoded_video.title}"
path = encoded_video.download
puts "video saved in #{path}"

You can find the doc here.