EPTAnyone who syndicates their show via Youtube or blip.tv knows that the majority of their viewers get their content via these syndicated venues. Right now, many of the most popular streamers / commentators have some form of subscription based way to access their content. RSS feeds are not everything, but can be a very important key to success.
Consider your average fan / listener / viewer for a moment. Like it or lump it, your tournament / show / content / games cannot be viewed by everyone who wants to see them. Things come up, people have lives, and sometimes other stuff is streaming at the same time. Now your typical audience is not going to be solely a fan of your work, they likely have other streams or content they watch. It is a pain in the ass to see great content and realize that the only way to see if new stuff is out is by going to their stream's recordings page and check, or in the worst case find out they do not record their stuff at all. Most consumers of content should look into something like Google reader or another RSS aggregate so that they get a nice tidy list of new content when it is available. Easy as pie.
So what sites have this tool that will vastly help you retain and gain new fans?
First of all, this is not a feature available yet on Livestream or uStream live recordings. I think it's something they both should seriously consider implementing, but for the moment this is not there.
Second, a Team Liquid forum thread also does not have an RSS link so keeping an OP updated on the forums while useful in some cases is not an option to get a feed for your content.
Good places to put video content up are Youtube and Blip.tv (Blip.tv also can host audio content). If you have the time I recommend both. If you do not wish to record your stream's video onto a hard drive there is another option:
1. Create a free blog, blogger, livejournal, wordpress, all of these are useful.
2. Get the code for the player embeddable widget found on both livestream and ustream for your syndicated videos.
3. every time a new video comes out, simply copy this embed code for the new video into a new blog post.
4. ???
5. Profit, you know have a way that people can access your content via RSS with very little work on your end and their end. Trust me it is a great service to your fans.
Team Liquid has some great content providers, and with all these tournaments getting streamed some great games are becoming hard to find, impossible to find, or just a pain to follow. I think if we got more Web 2.0 savvy we could definitely have a stronger and better platform for the very brilliant and creative content creators coming out of this community.
GL HF
edit: if you are a fan of someone and they have no feed, be sure to toss this their way
