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In December PHPsugar announced the release of the new version of its video CMS – PHPMelody. It allows website owners easily to create video sharing website and saves you a lot of money for hardware. The new PHPMelody version 1.5.2 has lots of great new features.

The PHPMelody development team said about new version 1.5.2: “The best choice for building a successful video site”. This is not overstated, as the new version helps you to create a video site, and share your favorite videos really easy. You can arrange the video clips in categories and define user’s groups. This turns your video site into a real social network.

Lets’ have a brief look at the main features that the new version offers.

Own Player and watermark

You can use and customize your own player, regardless of the video source, so it can best suit your website design. Also the video is displayed with your site logo or watermark that makes it look really unique and makes your visitors to visit it again more often.

Video Uploading

Now you can easily upload videos through the admin panel.

Video ads

This features enables you to display video ads. This feature was not offered in previous versions. The built-in ad management system automatically tracks the number of impressions and clicks, generated by each ad.

SEO Friendly

PHPMelody 1.5.2 is optimized and has quite good performance in search engines. It uses SEO friendly URLs.

16 video sources

You can easily integrate videos on your website from YouTube and some other 15 video sources.

Choose your language

PHPMelody has UTF-8 compatibility and you can make a website in any language. Its translation is quite simplified, as it uses only one file to configure the website language.

User’s Area

The users can sign up and create and account, can comment, share and upload video files or bookmark their favorite videos.

Banner Management

You can manage the ad spots on your web associated with your Google AdSence account via the admin panel.

PHPMelody is great video CMS that allows you to maintain multi-profile video sharing network, where members can bookmark and categorize videos. Files don’t take your disc space because your members import them from YouTube and other video sources.

To enable our customers to run their own video network websites at a low cost we’ve created a special optimized Video CMS Hosting plan that is priced only $59.88 per year. It features 3,000 MB disc space and 30 GB monthly transfer, PHPMelody Video CMS and Zen Photo image gallery integrated in our PowerTools auto installer software library.