It’s been a while since I checked out the quality difference between uploading videos to YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, and now Facebook. I just finished uploading the same 59mb video to YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook, and well see for yourself.
Vimeo
Flickr
YouTube
Video Quality
Video quality wise, to me,Vimeo seems a little better than the others. I guess maybe they don’t crunch their uploads as hard as the others.
Hey good looking
Player ‘looks’ wise I reckon Facebook has it by a whisker over Vimeo. Both are pretty slick and minimal with the player controls built in to the viewer window, and they discretely hide once you stop moving your mouse.
The Verdict
In the past I would’ve said no matter what, stick your video on YouTube purely because of the size of their network. Now days, I would probably suggest uploading to YouTube, but also upload to Facebook because the network there is growing by the day.
There are plenty of other video hosting solutions out there, and Viddler and Blip.TV are pretty cool also, but their user base is a bit smaller and if you’re after views and revenue you really want to stick with one of the big three here.
Note: I’ve kind of discounted Flickr a little here, their video player is pretty nice, and the quality is quite high, however they limit you to 90 seconds of play time so that kind of hurts. I guess they really really want you to stick to the mantra of ‘video as a long photo’ or whatever it is they say.
For mine, I’ll be Facebook’ing all my videos in the future.
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Hey there,
Just wanted to let you know that blip.tv can automatically distribute your video to both YouTube and Vimeo (along with a whole lot of other places). We also automatically distribute to Facebook, although the video on Facebook plays in our player instead of Facebook's (we're working on this). All of your social activity, statistics, et cetera, all come back to the blip.tv dashboard so that you have one central place to work from.
Our destination site is tiny, but it's only about 4% of our overall traffic. We have one of the biggest video distribution networks in the world.
Yours,
Mike Hudack
Co-founder & CEO, blip.tv
flickr has good quality and youtube loads fastest…
Hey Mike
Thanks for taking the time to comment here.
I quite like blip.tv, and with those distribution features you mentioned I think I might have to take a longer look at it again.
One of the things I really like is the episodic nature of blip.tv. It seems that's one of the big selling points for some of the people that are using blip.tv
Cheers
Mat