Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Top 3 Online Video Streaming Websites For User Submitted Content

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Creating a video to stream online? Creating a video blog or a introductory video for your business? There are a host of websites who will love to host your video so make sure you research your options and don’t assume they all provide the same service… Here are my Top 3 picks:

YouTube (the default): No Top 3 list could possibly omit YouTube as one of the top video streaming sites on the web. YouTube makes it extremely easy to embed content to websites and the responsiveness of it’s services has made it the primary option for online sensation hopefuls. However, the navigation of the homepage and the 15 minute upload limit can be rather frustrating at times. For longer videos and higher quality you definitely have other options.

Vimeo: Vimeo allows 500 MB of high quality streaming uploads per week per user, and they have premium accounts if you need more than that. In short,if you have a large video that needs to be streamed in high quality, Vimeo is a very attractive option. It’s website is also very easy to use, and your uploaded site will be able to be embedded in websites and social media just as easily as it is on YouTube.

Veoh: Veoh offers a lot of the advantages that Vimeo does, including adding premium accounts for more bandwidth and upload space. In addition to allowing high quality user uploads, Veoh also partners with TV companies showing exclusive content not even shown on Hulu, in case you want to watch some television while you are uploading your video. Also, after publishing the original file can be downloaded from the streaming video link in case you want to give your users the ability to watch your video offline.

There are more options than just YouTube: get your content out there today! Have any cool video projects? Post them in the comments!

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