MLS Highlights
September 14th, 2009 . 1:54 pm . By: Buzz CarrickThe league is doing some solid work with highlights these days, but here’s the problem… They don’t put them up in a useable format fast enough. You see MLS puts video on their own website site. Here’s an example, the Cunningham goal that is up for goal of the week. Great right? Here’s the trouble. The new format doens’t have a “embeded” function (the old format there was a work around I figured out, but this new one that’s not the case. And believe me I’ve tried). That means people like me can’t embed the highlights in posts. Sure MLS owns the right, but this league needs publicity. They need people to be able to post and share highlights. I think they know that… because they have a youtube channel. You can find excellent stuff there like this package from a week ago that includes some FCD stuff vs DC United. But it’s a week late. Today we should have the highlights from this weekend… and we don’t. Who knows when it will show up. 7 Comments Comments RSS TrackBack Identifier URI Leave a comment |
I prefer the newer clips with the guy who does recaps of the asian leagues on FSC. I’m glad they started doing MLS as well.
firefox with “download helper” plug in allows you to download the flv file which you could post. Not sure if that would be legal or not.
That would work if I put the video on my own server. But I don’t really have the rights to do that. Nor the space really. MLS just needs to be better about this.
agreed.
[...] In the wake of my complaint about MLS’s video sharing “problem,” I was reminded that MLS does have this cool QuickKicks feature. Although I don’t really use it myself, I think it’s a good enough product to be worth pointing out, since I dissed them on the other stuff. [...]
MLS puts some of the best games each week on youtube the night of the game as well as a reel of all the Goal of the Week candidates. You can embed those. After all if all their videos were on your site why would anyone go to the MLS site?
Great package. They need to market better.