Overview of indy content distribution services

Jeff from CommonBits -- a BitTorrent distribution service for indy media -- has published a good overview of all the services out there for distributing rich, massy indy video, audio and other files, like Broadcast Machine, We Media, and many others.

CommonBits and Broadcast Machine are both excellent platforms for delivering the coming wave of citizen media content. And there are others.

Prodigem offers a BitTorrent hosting service that allows people to sell their content. OurMedia and Archive.org offer a similar hosting service without BitTorrent but neither service has a particular community focus e.g. politics or music. Al Gore’s new company Current.TV is also making an effort to involve citizen media producers albeit more commercial.

The community aspect of these sites is important. CommonTunes was created to support the online music community and CommonFlix to support video sharing. OurMedia has a lot of community features as well.

Link (Thanks, Jeff!)