Vimeo
Vimeo.com is a fast-growing platform with a quite serious
traffic. Unlike YouTube, Vimeo mostly holds prof-looking videos and has
two options for its users: a basic account with limitations and a paid
one ($59.99/yr) with advanced options and bigger space. Here are the
principle differences between free and paid accounts.
Vevo
Dailymotion
Dailymotion is a French video-sharing website that allows users to view, browse and upload videos by searching tags, channels, or user-created groups. If you want to upload your video to Dailymotion, you should remember that length of the video files is limited to 2 GB and 60 minutes. Also the upload quality to regular users is limited to 1280*720p. However, these restrictions don’t seem to be a real trouble, and Dailymotion can be a good competitor to YouTube
Veoh
Veoh is an Internet television service that hosts studio content, independent productions and user-generated material. Once signed in to Veoh you can upload videos of any length and embed them on your site or blog. Veoh accepts hundreds of different formats and has an extensive community for you to participate in. You may get in touch with other people, rate your favorite videos, leave comments and discuss the videos in channels and forums.
Metacafe
Metacafe is a video-sharing website with more than 40 million unique viewers every month. Here you can find short videos in the categories of video games, sports, music, movies and TV. The website features a special ranking algorithm that ensures that the uploaded videos are of high quality. Besides, unlike YouTube, Metacafe doesn’t host duplicate videos. Each video can be uploaded only once. One more advantage of Metacafe is that it pays people for posting videos. If your content is popular among users and your video hit 20.000 views, Metacafe will pay you $5 for every 1,000 views. Good motivation for making cool videos, isn’t it?
Flickr
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