YouTube is great for making videos about your cat or cousin, but if you want to display your work, switch to Vimeo.
YouTube was created four years ago and its success is incomprehensible. A Year and a half after its creation, it sold to Google for 1.65 billion. This type of success has flooded the internet with Video’s, from home made user submissions to trailers for new movies.
YouTube is a great gateway, but as video’s evolve and grow, the demand for a better engine to run them on increases.
Here comes Vimeo. Vimeo is a Video sharing site, but much more. Vimeo allows users to play videos in High Definition, where YouTube’s “High Quality” boast much less significant improvements.
Vimeo also resizes the actual video screen, allowing for native resolution over squeezing or letter boxing YouTube standard 4:3 aspect ratio. Vimeo users have the ability to password protect videos for viewing, letting the creator control the audience that sees it.
Best of all, users can allow their video to be downloaded from others, enabling growth within an artistic community and facilitating an incredible way to store and transfer videos of your own.
From the nicer looking page layout to the broader support of video resolutions, Vimeo takes the digital cake. Investigate Vimeo for what it has more of, people expressing themselves, and less about people posting video replies.
June 10th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Interesting take, thanks. I will give Vimeo more of a try.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Agreed! Vimeo looks better, works better, plays higher quality videos, features better content, and lets you download the source video file. Beats YouTube hands down if you ask me.
June 12th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Thanks for the glowing review!
Blake
Community Director
Vimeo.com
June 16th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Well, if it goes popular like YouTube, Google will buy it eventually at the end
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:48 am
They wont bother since they all ready have youtube