BHeidenreich66

Thanks for sharing your post and experiences @Clover13. It is nice to hear that others are thinking the same way. My niche is very video reliant. We just did a challenge utilizing facebook groups to bring in clients which was very succesful. EVERY participant posted video clips of their work. Now I want to work on membership retention which means moving everything over to IPB but I can't realistically offer the same video experience they had in FB groups at the moment. So I am trying to give the best "work around" solution I can offer before I launch my retention challenge.

I agree with @BHeidenreich66, there is a huge opportunity for better video integration within IPS and it's a massive demand of every niche's user base that could close the gap with social media platforms like FB.  I too heavily compete with FB groups, and unfortunately FB dominates the "sharing" aspect.  It's not even that IPS needs to host video (most site owners don't want to incur the storage cost), IPS just needs to provide a better workflow for leveraging existing video sites (which can also be monetized/shared/etc).
It's what prompted my enhancement request submitted a year ago now to address this very thing.