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You can literally get lost with all of the WordPress video plugins that are out there for your WordPress blog. But, finding the ones that have the best functionality can be a hassle to say the least.

Video marketing is hot. People all across the world are using videos to relay their messages to their target audience. So, having wordpress video plugins installed on your blog will make your efforts so much more easier.

Here is a list of the top 5 that we highly recommend:

1. WordPress Video Plugin
This plugin allows you to easily embed video to your WordPress blog from 65 supported sites. This plugin gets 4.5 Stars and you can download it for free here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-video-plugin/

2. Embedded Video
This plugin will let you to easily integrate video into your blog post or uploaded to the web server. What’s cool about this plugin is it also generates a corresponding link to the video from the video sharing website or a download link to the local file. This plugin gets a 4 star rating and you can download it for free here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/embedded-video-with-link/

3. Video Sidebar Widgets
This plugin ads sidebar widgets for displaying Flash Videos from 14 video sharing networks. This plugin consist of 2 widgets and 1 TinyMCE editor button. This one gets 5 stars but works really well. You can download it for free here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/video-sidebar-widgets/

4. Cool Video Gallery
A Video Gallery plugin for WordPress that allows you to upload videos, manage them in multiple galleries and automatic preview image generation for uploaded videos. This one gets 4.5 stars and can be downloaded here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cool-video-gallery/

5. YouTube With Style
We are all about branding so this wordpress video plugins is really very cool. Instead of using the same old YouTube player, you can create a custom skin that allows you to brand yourself. With a very slick look, you can place your own logo to show on the top left hand corner. Pretty cool. This one gets 4 stars and can be downloaded for free here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtube-with-style/

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