MonkeySee - Viewers Do - Expert Guides
Monkeysee is another video site vying for a space in the video tutorial and guide industry. It's a mix between a youtube-style video sharing mixed with guides on a plethora of topics. All the videos are how-to, meaning that you're not going to find non-instructional videos on here. There's a good deal of instructional content here, and there really is a large variety to choose from.
The videos are categorized by industry or topic and are generally short, but unlike competitors there is no time limit which means that certain videos can be tediously long or repetitive. The production quality of the videos appearing on the featured list were exceptionaly good, rivalling that of something you'd expect from a major publisher on TV. This also hints that the videos appearing on the page may be heavily moderated to only the best submissions of content to be added. There are a few ads on the site, and they're slightly annoying - as at the time they were showing risque and unrelated material.
The main downside of MonkeySee is that the videos are quite slow to load. On 3 seperate occasions of attempting to load videos on the site from various connections and computers, the videos loaded at a snail's pace. This is one of the main limiting factors of what is otherwise a very good site.
The Overall Ratings for MonkeySee:
Show Diversity: (4/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (2/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (4/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (1/5)
Based on the annoyance level of advertisements on this site, the amount of ads, and the volatility of ads appearing on the page.
The lower the rating, the less annoying the ads are.
Total Score: 14/20
MonkeySee suffers from some slow loading videos, but it certainly has a lot of great stuff for thosewith a do-it-yourself attitude. There's a lot of friendly tips and video guides to help you along the way, if only you can get it to load fast enough for you to keep your interest. Overall it's a very good site, that would be worthy of being called great if not for the video loading issues.
The videos are categorized by industry or topic and are generally short, but unlike competitors there is no time limit which means that certain videos can be tediously long or repetitive. The production quality of the videos appearing on the featured list were exceptionaly good, rivalling that of something you'd expect from a major publisher on TV. This also hints that the videos appearing on the page may be heavily moderated to only the best submissions of content to be added. There are a few ads on the site, and they're slightly annoying - as at the time they were showing risque and unrelated material.
The main downside of MonkeySee is that the videos are quite slow to load. On 3 seperate occasions of attempting to load videos on the site from various connections and computers, the videos loaded at a snail's pace. This is one of the main limiting factors of what is otherwise a very good site.
The Overall Ratings for MonkeySee:
Show Diversity: (4/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (2/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (4/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (1/5)
Based on the annoyance level of advertisements on this site, the amount of ads, and the volatility of ads appearing on the page.
The lower the rating, the less annoying the ads are.
Total Score: 14/20
MonkeySee suffers from some slow loading videos, but it certainly has a lot of great stuff for thosewith a do-it-yourself attitude. There's a lot of friendly tips and video guides to help you along the way, if only you can get it to load fast enough for you to keep your interest. Overall it's a very good site, that would be worthy of being called great if not for the video loading issues.
http://www.monkeysee.com
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