Open Thread: Which Video Site Do You Use?
YouTube, Vimeo, Viddyou, Revver, Viddler — which one is your video-sharing site of choice? It’s a question that sprang to mind after I wrote about Matthew Harding’s global dancing video earlier this month. On Harding’s blog, he posted his first two videos using YouTube, but for the third, he used Vimeo. Why the switch?
I emailed him to find out why and here’s what he wrote back:
“I put the video on Vimeo as well as YouTube because of the much higher quality level. YouTube was essential for getting the video seen by a wide audience, but Vimeo was a great alternative for those who cared enough to see a crisper image. Using both, I was able to satisfy the demands of millions of viewers while also offering something special for users of sites like Digg and Fark, who went straight to the superior Vimeo version.”
His reasoning makes sense (we posted the Vimeo version because it looked better). If you have an online show, you probably upload to any and all sites (though YouTube is your best distribution bet), but which one do you go with for everyday sharing?
Based on anecdotal evidence, the options for video sharing seem to break down according to underlying motivation in the following manner:
- Massive audience: YouTube
- Quality: Vimeo
- Money: Revver
- Family and friends mostly: Viddyou
Sure, this is oversimplified, but I’m curious to hear what you think. Why Viddler over Dailymotion, or Vimeo over Metacafe? Which video-sharing site did you pick and why? Leave a comment and let us know.
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+70million users, viral tools etc…MySpace/MySpaceTV = Community / sharing – plus (soon) even greater ability for content creators to target through the self-serve platform for content creators = exciting times/greater chance to build large audiences.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/04/myspace-to-announce-self-serve-advertising-network/
http://www.ianschafer.com/2008/04/20/deeper-thoughts-on-the-myspace-self-serve-platform/
I use http://www.Bands.TV
At For Your Imagination our top video distribution sites are Blip, Dailymotion, Revver, Viddler, Yahoo and YouTube. They are all TubeMogul networks which is critical in managing the time to distribute and measure performance when you are running a bunch of video networks likes The Green House and DadLabs, and we get the best response (views, comments, ratings) from these networks on average. Some videos work better on different networks within that group but that is our top group. MySpace, Metacafe and others round out the secondary group.
ooyala.com gets all my vids
controlled syndication in HD is where it’s at.
I use Veoh because they let me upload my huge files and they look good when they play. If you produce more professional stuff like I do, Veoh is way better than youtube when it comes to quality.
ViddYou does HD as well. It was probably one of the first that started offering HD video on the web.
Funny how no one knows that.
I use ViddYou.com. For only $30 a year I get tons of file upload capabilities in countless formats (including full 1080p).
Plus the creators of the site are totally accessible and involved daily in the community. Shoot them an message and get a response within hours usually. You can’t find that kind of help anywhere else.
Viddyou here!
Great community, simple uploading & helpful creators too!
Why is there no website out there that supports 720p format videos and still giving you the monetization of a website like Revver?
Why is there no Revver + Viddyou? :( I want my Reddyou
YouTube.
This ain’t cinema. Quality doesn’t matter for most online video viewers. Large auds and widely adopted, embeddable players do. Web 2.0 has nothing to do w/ quality and everything to do w/ first-mover status and openness. I know its cool to hate the top dog, but YouTube has kept innovating and I’m confident that they’ll remain relatively user-friendly (subtle advertising like Google’s AdSense) while other sites get bogged down w/ more preroll ads and other ham-fisted ways to pay the bills and promote their sites.
These other sites listed are the equivalent of DAT – for geeks only. I know YOU care about resolution, but where the evidence that anyone else cares about it?