YouTube Alternatives?
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April 3, 2013 at 7:37 PM #55899
LarryManilow
ParticipantI don't want to publish to Youtube. I just don't like Google as a company. Any good alternatives?
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April 3, 2013 at 9:34 PM #206808
Eric
ParticipantHave you looked into Vimeo? http://www.vimeo.com They have some really cool features like letting you embed your video on your site and it only points to your site instead of the annoying youtube.com/blahblah. If you are a paid member they also let you put up a donate button so people can throw some money your way.
They are large enough that the interface is really easy as well as big enough to retain an audience.
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April 4, 2013 at 2:40 PM #206823
EddieValiant
ParticipantVeoh.com is another free service. I've only used it a few times but it's been OK. One thing that I haven't seen happen with Veoh is the videos actually playback without constant stalling like on YT or even now on Vimeo.
Vimeo needs more bandwidth, but they don't have the resources of Google, who apparently is operating YT on the cheap these days. The choppy playback of hi-res videos is damned irritating.
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April 12, 2013 at 3:20 PM #206932
LarryManilow
ParticipantThanks guys. I am going to check out Vimeo first. I am getting pretty close to having some stuff to post!! : )
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May 3, 2013 at 11:49 AM #207226
Dan
ParticipantYep Vimeo seem like the primary choice for professionals.
Also, people have been sharing videos with me on Facebook more and more.
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May 9, 2013 at 2:20 PM #207305
Fastfwd
ParticipantI think Vimeo has stepped up their game recently possibly. I used to have a tough time getting my uploads to complete. The few I’ve done in recent weeks haven’t had any upload issues at all. I’ve got a ‘Pro’ account, but I really mostly renewed it this year to support their community. I’m glad I stuck with it. It’s a pretty thriving community for talent – not that I would claim myself to be amongst the ranks.
There are some really cool videos on there. I don’t search through it nearly enough to check them out, but I’ve seen some cool stuff. I like the time-lapse stuff personally – some of those are super cool and must have taken a huge amount of work to compile.
Anyway, with a ‘Pro’ Account – you are limited to 5 gigs a week uploading. Depending on what you are trying to do that might need to be noted. If you want to share a feature length documentary for example – you’ll have to throttle down your bitrate to squeeze it in under 5 gigs. Youtube is exceptionally liberal in that regard – I think like 20 gig uploads maybe and unlimited time when you are in good standing. Vimeo allows you to store the original file for download distribution if you like though on the flipside of that point.
Vimeo does seem to have a slight edge in encoding quality too, but they try to steer you away from providing a 1080p stream by default. You have to select 1080p to be available for every upload if you want it and it has to encode for that after it has encoded for 720p. Not really a big deal, but something to be aware of if your video looks – well, 720p and not 1080p like you may have shot it. I’m sure it’s to save on bandwidth – it costs money to stream the higher resolution.
Personally, I feel like I trash up the neighborhood with my videos LOL. I try to do better, but it’s like parking your trailer home in a nice neighborhood to upload crappy videos that belong more on Youtube. They need the cash though; so, it can’t all be perfectly polished professional stuff. They seem to like to provide tutorials that cater to beginners as well.
I’m also enthused to see Vimeo available on so many ‘Smart Televisions/Devices.’ Their apps are generally pretty slick if not at least consistent across the platforms I’ve seen them on. I might not care to spend hours creating and burning off a Blu-ray disc for my latest ‘project’ and rather upload and stream it back on the television. I’m not super impressed with my experience with DLNA (media home networking on smart televisions) for that matter – even if I am setup to play them otherwise over WiDi. It’s pretty user friendly to just pull up the built in app and let it stream back.
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May 9, 2013 at 11:42 PM #207325
dstarks
MemberStaff picks section of Vimeo is where it's at!
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May 15, 2013 at 2:15 AM #207386
saltlakestudio
ParticipantThe alternative for youtube is metacafe, dailymotion or vimeo.
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May 18, 2013 at 10:55 PM #207432
Anonymous
InactiveI've been a youtube member since 2006 and have never been able to make anything viral. So check out my videos if anyone cares http://www.youtube.com/user/fingerminger
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June 3, 2013 at 11:28 AM #207631
Pine Fresh Media
ParticipantAnother vote for Vimeo, definitly. Especially now that they've introduced Vimeo Pro, definitly the choice for video production businesses.
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November 26, 2013 at 1:32 PM #209233
Chris
ParticipantHey, this is a great question and there are many answers. I will try not to be biased since I'm the CEO of a video platform, but I'll lay the ground:
http://www.youtube.com – great tools, massive internal audience
http://www.dailymotion.com – good worldwide audience
http://www.vimeo.com – great for large files and higher quality videos
http://www.rumble.com – great for external distribution (yahoo, msn, etc), high quality hosting, great for monetizing on distribution
Hope that helps.
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May 2, 2014 at 2:24 AM #210340
Anonymous
InactiveHere are some alternatives you might wanna check,- http://www.dailymotion.com/
- http://vube.com/
- http://www.veoh.com/
- http://www.metacafe.com/
- http://blip.tv/
Details about all these services can be found here, http://thetecnica.com/2014/02/youtube-alternatives -
July 18, 2014 at 5:18 AM #210804
HowardRobinson
ParticipantIf you don't want to publish your video on YouTube, then you can go with some High PR video submission sites like Flickr, Dailymotion, We Video and Vimeo. These are the best sites for promoting your video.
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October 20, 2014 at 8:54 AM #211267
Eddie
ParticipantFor me the best 3 are YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion.
There are more details on these video hosting sites here: http://www.media-challenge.net/heres-quick-way-get-marketing-videos-viewed-people
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October 6, 2015 at 7:52 AM #212906
gaganboparai
MemberHere is the list of 7 best Youtube alternative video sites http://bitl.li/j1FRu
I can bet you cannot find better list than this 🙂 -
June 7, 2016 at 2:39 PM #214068
alansmith
MemberVimeo.com and Dailymotion.com but in speed of streaming Youtube.com has no alternative.
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July 20, 2016 at 3:04 PM #214262
perfectchaosfilms
MemberIt seems professionals use Vimeo to post videos on their site more than YouTube, which is what I use. I’m curious as to why that is.
http://www.perfectchaosfilms.com
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October 20, 2017 at 1:48 AM #216324
alice131
Memberi am unable to understand what is wrong with YouTube that you do not like to publish your video. Okh it is your choice
Here are some good alternative
http://www.dailymotion.com/in
these two are best similar website to youtube,
If need more so look at here https://toptenalternatives.co/youtube-alternative/ -
December 3, 2017 at 4:37 PM #277975
palladini971
ParticipantI am on Vidlii.com
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August 2, 2018 at 11:59 PM #71105695
Angly
Participantthis video is very good.
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April 8, 2014 at 2:45 PM #210195
hsx9986
ParticipantHello,
I am currently having a website built. I am looking at having about 50 hours of video broken up into 20 minute videos. Does the vimeo pro allow enough storage for this amount of video?
thx
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