Online video is here for the taking, especially with the advent of Flash video revolutionizing the way video is streamed over the internet. These days, there are more than a billion viewers of TV shows, music channels and play games online through the power of flash.

As empowering as this sound, less than 1% of the overall web population uses powerful video streaming capabilities as a medium of advertising and information dissemination.
Flash technology is used for a wide spectrum of media applications on the web.

Not only has it dominated the video stream industry, topping major players like WMA, QuickTime and Real Player but is aggressively making its impact in the gaming and music industry. The good news is that the company Adobe, owners of Flash is more than generous in distributing their web tools to even further the promotion and use of Flash as a major web application.

These days movies, tv shows and music online can be played by using a freeware download of flash normally linked from sponsor sites or the website that contains the media information.

Major heavy hitters in the web universe such as peer connection sites like facebook, myspace and yahoo have all joined in the bandwagon and employed several flash based applications to liven up and keep their sites in primary interest of their millions of subscribers.

Games, music players and animation all created from flash technology and is shared on a freeware spectrum are widely available and this is just the start.

More and more resources are surfacing, allowing basic web developers to learn and maximize web space by employing flash technology to their scripts at no cost. There are even online training programs that will provide hours of tutorial on flash creation technology such as Flash CS3, and are absolutely free.

These programs are designed to raise awareness and to entice developers and online businesses to purchase creation software and employ the technology on their platform.