Youtube vs Vimeo vs Facebook - Who is the best video host?

A VJ's perspective of the strengths, weaknesses and audiences of YouTube, Vimeo and Facebook.

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These blogs gave me lots of useful information:

Mike Carrall's article over at Starkinsider called 'Vimeo vs. Youtube vs. Facebook vs. Viddler' http://bit.ly/fQUTfw

Dan Sung's post over at Pock-lint about 'Vimeo vs Youtube' http://bit.ly/dSNMRc

Rob Montgomery's 'How I used Twitter to get 9,000 views on Youtube' http://bit.ly/gWodxq

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People & Blogs

Tags:

• Video Journalism
• facebook
• youtube
• vimeo
• best video host

[midasjohn]

Babe you need a balanced diet yeah, cos you have eaten quite a few grams from the top of that biro pen :P You got great Video presence btw, it's INEVITABLE :)))

[MacBubbles]

Excellent video. Sexy accent! LOL!

[IAMTHENOTCH]

looks to the other videos and sees a video thats 20 mins long...

[ixrczu]

I will be teaching a 15 minute course twice a month for a monthly payment. I am leaning toward Vimeo. This is all very confusing. I will have to advertise the course myself and build a client base. The course is a new sport sweeping the country with no teaching access in small communities. Any suggestions? Barbara

[sanstania]

Excellent! Thank you. JB

[GoddessOfGlutes]

Totally helpful!! And I am digging the pink sticky notes :)) Thanks!!

[acou2007]

Very helpful outlook. I guess the only one I was wondering about is what your thoughts are on Viddler? I'm debating between YouTube, Vimeo and Viddler for the most part.

[drunkglitch]

facebook is the shittest video site ever doesn't even deserve to be on your list metacafe is a lot better

[Joshb81959]

I kind of wish youtube would allow for a wider selection of categories. Say I upload an animation... I could put it in the animation category and the 2D animation sub category instead of just Film & Animation. I make a short comedy film, I could put it in Film - Short Film - Comedy.

Small little changes like that could just make youtube a little better I think. Or if not, atleast it would make it easier to find new channels you actually like. :(

[Joshb81959]

I love youtube but Vimeo just seems to have more interesting and high quality content. The film & animation category on youtube is the category I would frequent most, but it seems like people put videos there just because they 'FILM'ed it with a camera. BrittaniLiousTaylor gains views by giving away gumball machine toys and asking her viewers to spam the comments, CTFxC vlogs, SXEphil and ctfxc post movie reviews. Not my cup of tea.

Nothing compared to Vimeos Film and Animation categories.