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Vimeo vs. YouTube

I recently started using Vimeo and I began to compare and contrast it with YouTube.

We all use YouTube. It's the most famous video sharing site on the internet. But we also know all the annoyances with YouTube. All the copyrights, ads, and etc. It all became like this when Google bought YouTube. Before that YouTube wasn't so uptight.

Vimeo is a site that is similar to YouTube. You can stream and upload videos in HD. Let's take a look at the pro's and con's of YouTube and Vimeo

Vimeo Pro's
-It's almost impossible to get copyrighted
-No time limit
-You can upload HD
-Better video statistics (You can see how many views, likes, and comments you get a day)
-Videos load pretty fast

YouTube Pro's
-Much more popular
-You can upload HD
-More dynamic commenting and voting system

Now lets take a look at the con's of both sites

Vimeo Con's:
-You have a weekly limit of 500.00MB and 1 HD video per week with a basic account
-Ads (But they are rare)

YouTube Con's
-Ads every where
-Copyrights
-Disabling audio
-15 minute time limit for most users

Now look at the advantages you get with Vimeo PLUS
-Even higher quality video
-5GB/week upload space
-1GB/file limit. They're testing 2GB file uploads via the desktop uploader (beta).
Unlimited HD uploading
Unlimited HD embedding
Advanced statistics
Faster, priority uploading
Super-customizable video player
Original file storage and downloading
Unlimited Groups, Channels & Albums
Advanced privacy including domain-level control
Plus members never see ads, ever!
Much, much more

Unfortunately Vimeo PLUS has a price . $59.95 Annually or $9.95 a month.

In my opinion if they make Vimeo 100% with all the advantages of PLUS and an unlimited upload limit I would be using that instead of YouTube.

Let me know what you think. Vimeo or YouTube? Does Vimeo have potential?

Please check out Vimeo before just jumping on the YouTube bandwagon.

vimeo sounds cool, but if you want views then you need youtube......

youtube is very popular and free so i go for youtube..........

you tube is such a perfect name though, easy to say and tells you what it does. maybe vimeo should change to vide-you or something

i would only use Youtube mainly because it is just easy to use and i never heard of vimeo until today

Youtube is very popular so I don't think vimeo will ever get that popular, kind of like NGU and pvhax.

they're both equally good