The Creme de Video Sharing Websites?
Just when you think you’ve seen them all, another video sharing website comes bobbing along.
Here’s a quick summary on how the competition stands (in depth of deserving individual sites will follow soon). All have a free service which includes enough features to satisfy:
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Sharkle is a full featured site rivalling the big dogs, YouTube and Vidilife, offering just as good features, but topping it off with great Flsah quality. It’s conversion is fast too. It only offers 1Gig of free space, but that is plenty enough. *This one gets my award for the best video sharing site.*
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DailyMotion is another great candidate offering 3 different ways of uploading your video (unlimited of under 110MB) in addition to the normal “upload from harddrive”:
- Upload directly from webcam
- Upload from Mobile Phone
- Upload by email
Most of the “help” part of the site remains untranslated (French?) but you don’t really need help. This is the only site that transcodes to Quicktime… something I’ve been looking for for a long time. At the moment, however, it does not appear to stream.
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YouTube offers the most features at the moment and unlimited file upload as long as they are under 100mb. Only downside is when video is converted to Flash, its not always the prettiest thing. It’s being updated continuously. Overlooking it’s low quality, it is by far the best community video site.
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JussPress is tailored to those sharing video off their photo cameras, webcams, and phone cams. You are open to unlimited uploads but the videos must be under 2 minutes or they’ll get cut off.
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eVideoShare doesn’t offer a proffesional design… but it has all the features one comes to expect from a video sharing site.
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ClipShack At the moment, signing up for it’s beta gives you a Free 50MB of video storage (so far there is only a free version. Paid services should be added soon). Compared to other sites, that’s nothing.
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Vidilife allows you to upload videos up to a whooping 2Gigs! Streaming video is in WMV which doesn’t give you the best quality.
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ZippyVideos like Vivilife offers streaming video without converting it to Flash. They convert to WMV which isn’t the best quality either. And their limit is unlimited files of up to 20MB. For simple sharing, ZippyVideos meets expectations.
- Boltfolio is not limited to video, supporting images, audio, and blogs as well. A multimedia sharing community portal created by Bolt targeted mainly at young people. This is the first video site I have come across that actually feels like Flickr. It features the same easy system of tagging, commenting, and editing content info. It’s even got a monthly upload limit (100MB).
–Additional (not had time to review)–
Pooxi- French site.
CastPost
vSocial
Blip.tv < - Geared for vloggers really
Google Video (Might as well add it, even tho it doesn’t offer quite the same feel.
Lulop2(interesting, open source project to create your own Video Sharing website.)
vMix
Flukiest
www.yashi.com
www.varsityTV.com
PixParty - Video & Pics.
FreeVideoBlog - Not a big community or as flexible as YouTube and Sharkle but allows you to embed videos into your site (not sure what the limit
is) and the flash quality looks pretty good (although I’ve seen some
WMV files there too.
StreetFire - Identical interface (except for color scheme) to the one above, so I guess has the same features.
Other Video Sites that don’t quite fit my category:
Revver - A site that hopes to bring cash in to content providers by inserting ads at the end of the clips.
Vobbo - actually a social site with video capablities.
P2P styled Video Sharing:
Grouper - The best known P2P sharing app. Downside is the slow loading, and the new interface isn’t quite friendly.
Project Neon - Probably the fastest app. Really simple and straightforward.
Pixpo
Sites to keep watch on:
Brightcove - Plans to revolutionize web video.
For those looking for any sites supporting video, not restricted to Flickr like services, should check out this list at Artificial Eyes.
Phew… that’s got to be the most complete list in existence (as of this moment).
If I missed any (as if), be sure to let me know…
(Stay tuned for more video related websites…)
> Last updated: May 3, ‘06
Technorati Tags: vidilife, youtube, video, clipshack, dailymotion, jusspress, sharkle, zippyvideos
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FYI you didn’t mention Bliptv, The Internet Archive, or Our Media
Comment by graham Walker — November 3, 2005 @ 12:02 pm
Thanks graham,
I had anticipated comments on this. The reason I didn’t cover them is because I did not view them quite in the same category. They do not provide the same community video sharing feel and simplicity, if you get me. They, for one, don’t recode your videos (which is a plus).
I will, however, do a roundup of that type of video sharing pretty soon.
Comment by Administrator — November 3, 2005 @ 7:12 pm
You can add the French site Pooxi.com
http://www.pooxi.com
Comment by David Pooxi — November 4, 2005 @ 2:22 pm
How about flukiest.com?
Is the list strictly for video sharing sites? Flukiest provides both video and photo sharing.
Comment by Duc Chau — November 8, 2005 @ 6:43 am
Sharkle, DailyMotion, JussPress, eVideoShare, CastPost, vSocial, Vobbo, vMix, Flukies, Yashi, varsistyTV - More Videoblogging services
Even more (check out my survey of 7 videoblogging services for some others)! I can’t keep up with all the video blogging services! I am basically not interested in anything with limited storage or anything that limits individual videos to…
Trackback by Roland Tanglao's Weblog — November 8, 2005 @ 9:36 pm
I think Vobbo is the one that best handles in-browser recording. For Vloggers who don’t want to do full video editing, Vobbo may be the best bet.
Comment by Steven Vao — November 9, 2005 @ 3:42 am
I would strongly encourage checking out vSocial. While we are very strong on the lowest common denominator features (working, simple, quick thanks to our AJAX UI) for a great video clip sharing site, a core part of our differentiation is in enabling users to actually “do something” with video; namely to tell stories, start conversations and extend blogs. Three features that you can quickly check out yourself:
1. Share favorite videos via clipmails (a type of formatted email)
2. Create short videos via our “video roll” builder tools
3. Embed BOTH favorite clips and video rolls in a web site
I have written a post that articulates our vision called, “Short attention, short conversations and video clips.” Here is the URL: http://thenetworkgarden.blogs.com/weblog/2005/10/vsocial_video_c.html
vSocial is, of course, available at http://www.vsocial.com.
p.s. click the about box to get a quickie example of a video roll.
Thanks!
Mark
Comment by Mark Sigal — November 10, 2005 @ 6:53 pm
Not sure if Mefeedia fits in this category, but it is the largest directory of videoblogger’s feeds online.
Comment by Devlon — November 15, 2005 @ 11:58 pm
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Trackback by Video — November 20, 2005 @ 3:41 pm
For people interested in doing something with their videotapes, I encourage you to check out HomeMovie.Com. We offer both web-based video capture for your digital video & videotapes, or mail-in “processing” of your videotapes for online sharing, editing and DVD transfer (only $5/tape).
You can combine any scene from any of your videos (or video that has been shared with you) to make a customized movie that you can share online, transfer to DVD (DVDs available for only $15) or download to your video iPod.
Our editing tools are very quick and easy to use, and your first 5 hours in your account are free. You can check us out at HomeMovie.Com.
Thanks!
Lars
Comment by Lars Krumme — July 9, 2006 @ 6:02 am
Check out www.JuiceCaster.com for a newly lauched free app which is kind of a mix up of a lot of features from other sites. Works well!
Comment by Colin — July 10, 2006 @ 6:35 pm
JuiceCaster.com is a mix of all these sites and works well.
Comment by Colin — July 10, 2006 @ 6:36 pm
Filemobile is another sharing site, but supports photos, video and audio. One key difference is the mediastudio a flash based media management tool. Check it out… www.filemobile.com
Comment by Steve Hulford — July 21, 2006 @ 10:13 pm
Thanks a lot… i search this information a lot of time
Comment by Video-trailer — September 4, 2006 @ 1:42 am
Like this site I have been loking for photo and video hosting sites the world over. Currently I have over 300 posted, there are most of those already posted here. Please feel free to have a look and take any that you need. I have another 25 or so that I will post when I have time.
Cheers
Comment by Andrew — November 20, 2006 @ 5:58 am
Recently launched video search: http://webmunism.com/vids
Comment by dotcomrade — February 17, 2007 @ 1:40 am
We recently added a Dashboard page that users will see after logging in. This page will allow users to upload files more quickly and simply, view comments that other users leave for them, and provide short-cut links to the most commonly used features, such as blog settings.
Greg Prince
Founder
Filemobile.com
Comment by Greg Prince — March 3, 2007 @ 9:50 pm
I wanted to add Caught on Video to the mix.
Videos can be embedded and it also has social networking features.
Take care.
Hernan
Comment by Hernan Cortes — March 4, 2007 @ 5:39 am
Sign up to http://www.canopychannel.com if you want to see your talent or creativity on show to the world? If you are keen to share your knowledge or memorable experiences with others, this is the place to do it!
You can publish magazine style articles, photographs, video and audio clips and even long essays and novels.
Comment by Mike Andrew — May 14, 2007 @ 1:54 pm
I think http//www.clipmoon.com is worth to visit. It’s a new site, but I love the video quality of this site. Check it out.
Comment by movieman — September 13, 2007 @ 11:56 am
Well I agree with some of what has been said above about the sites but a new one i came accross today was:-
http://www.bandally.com
not sure about how much it work sbut looks good form what i see and youTube will rule
-Dan
Comment by Daniel Bran — October 20, 2007 @ 8:51 pm
Mostly i use this video sharing site may be its affiliated with youtube but, its good, free and easy to use.
here is that
VideoXtreme - http://videox.imasty.com/
check it may you like it.
Comment by dfesset — December 15, 2007 @ 11:51 pm