Usually when people come up to me and tell me they need a lot of webspace and bandwidth, I quickly ask, “Are you intending to serve videos or put up a lot of pictures?”
And just as often the answer is, “Yes.”
Personally, I find this quite redundant because there are tons of free services that put up good quality videos with little intrusive advertising taking place. Some even give you a cut of the ad revenue if you decide to serve them. So why not just upload them to those services where they’re more suited to serving a high volume of video/audio/pictures? Plus, they help to share your videos too - making them more visible to the public!
Below are 4 video hosting services that I think you must know. They vary in quality but there should be one that suits your needs:-
1. Youtube.com
This is probably the most famous of all the video sharing sites. Although they used to be terrible in terms of the video quality, they now support higher quality videos. What I like about youtube is how easy it is to annotate the video itself. Uploading is also pretty simple except that there’s quite a lot of fields to fill up before uploading actually begins.
2. Vimeo.com
Nice Clean White from DaBrainkilla on Vimeo.
If there’s something I like about my experience of using vimeo is the ease and the speed of upload coupled with the really good quality video(in fact, they support HD!)
3. Viddler.com
If there’s one reason to love using Viddler it’s how you can leave comments along the timeline of the video. It’s especially useful when people want to leave comments based on specific parts of the video.
4. Revver.com
Ok, I haven’t actually been a huge user of revver but if you’re intending to monetise your videos, Revver has a system for getting paid based on the number of views as well as the number of clicks ads that are served on your video receive.
