From what I have seen, the video highlights so far on this site have been pretty poor. I think it would help though if you could rate the level of quality for each video and have the video with the best quality rating be the video that shows up when you click on a link of the game on the front page.
I also think it would help if the site would separate the highlights by full highlights and short highlights. And to go even further, some video only show one goal and it can be annoying trying to find for example all 3 goals in a game because they all have the same title. So different names for different separate goals would be very helpful.
Finally it would be nice if there was a way we could suggest a site or URL that has good quality highlights of a certain game embedded. For example I could be able suggest a certain video on YouTube that shows a really good highlight of the Arsenal V Man City game.
Sorry for talking on and on, but I think these suggestions would really benefit the site. Thanks for your time! Go arsenal!
Good points Beastly, some of which we are already looking into. We have to index all videos on an automated basis, which means we have a lack of quality control, however we are still tinkering with the bot that finds related media, and hope to have a better working version out soon.
With regard to video quality ratings, you can already do that, below each video it says Rate this Video. We sort by most popular video first, so if enough people rate, the better videos filter to the top (of course as we're in private beta at the moment not as many people as we'd like are rating, this will change when we go live and should give you a better experience).
We will also look into adding a Duration sort, and a cleverer way of labeling videos that are part of a 'playlist'.
As for user submitted content, we have to be very careful about what is included on the site (for legal reasons) and although we plan on allowing user submissions at some point (and indeed high quality user uploads) in the future, exactly how we go about this is something we need to give a lot of thought to.