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vimeo vs. youtube?

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Contents-wise, I feel like vimeo is place where professional works, serious works are and youtube is more for fun stuffs.

Quality-wise, I think vimeo is somewhat better but youtube offers higher res.

Which one do you like?
 
Just had this this discussion today with the video department at Oakley. Vimeo wins on quality and resolution. YouTube has more eyeballs.
YouTube seems to crap out a lot on playback lately. YouTube seems to stutter on the stuff we want to see.
 
Does vimeo has more resolution? I thought youtube can have up to 1080HD and Vimeo is only up to 720p
 
It all depends on what, and how big the audience is you want to reach.
If your goal is to market to a wide variety of people, youtube is the way to go.
Unfortunately youtube it is more about cat's on skateboards, laughing baby's and girls singing out of tune.
If you want higher ranks or more traffic you can pay for it (i personal don't like that)
At vimeo the market is more artist, that is why film/music product company's are more there to show there products.
 
Beom Koh said:
Does vimeo has more resolution? I thought youtube can have up to 1080HD and Vimeo is only up to 720p
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It is the overall experience on YouTube a big stutter? It often leaves me waiting, so the point is mute.
 
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Elmer Tenkink said:
It all depends on what, and how big the audience is you want to reach.
If your goal is to market to a wide variety of people, youtube is the way to go.
Unfortunately youtube it is more about cat's on skateboards, laughing baby's and girls singing out of tune.
If you want higher ranks or more traffic you can pay for it (i personal don't like that)
At vimeo the market is more artist, that is why film/music product company's are more there to show there products.
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Agreed. Seems like you can't ignore YouTube if you want eyeballs on your content. But just putting a video up on any site isn't going to necessarily draw views. Marketing is a pain in the butt but you can't escape it!!
 
wasn't, and aren't there still issues of when your personal materials hit youtube, you lose it as your own personal creative property? I'm not sure if that was just a rumor I heard ages ago or if it stands true to this day. I was always paranoid about that and never posted anything on youtube. Vimeo I think has a cleaner layout, is a community that gears towards the creative and professional and so on. Plus I like the fact that you can private your videos, make it downloadable even, and so on.
 
Tom.Wong said:
wasn't, and aren't there still issues of when your personal materials hit youtube, you lose it as your own personal creative property? I'm not sure if that was just a rumor I heard ages ago or if it stands true to this day. I was always paranoid about that and never posted anything on youtube. Vimeo I think has a cleaner layout, is a community that gears towards the creative and professional and so on. Plus I like the fact that you can private your videos, make it downloadable even, and so on.
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You don't loose your copyright on youtube but you give distributing rights

http://www.youtube.com/static?gl=US&template=terms

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For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.
 
I have yet to see any real improvement viewing youtube videos in 1080p over 720p even when the source material is full hd.
 
Currently not using either, but Vimeo stuff seems to always stutter, while youtube stuff plays nicely on the Macs I use. Be it an 8-core or a dualcore... And I am not talking about the streaming...
 
Vimeo has WAY BETTER embeding support as well. The advantage of YouTube though on long-form projects is that you can skip to the middle. Vimeo you have to wait for it to load to the point where you want to view.
 
Gunleik Groven said:
Currently not using either, but Vimeo stuff seems to always stutter, while youtube stuff plays nicely on the Macs I use. Be it an 8-core or a dualcore... And I am not talking about the streaming...
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I see the same thing. Do any of you have a way to make Vimeo just play better? I put out mp4 files to Vimeo specs using Episode Pro, and they very often play badly on my clients' machines. Any advice?
 
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It depends on what you are wanting to upload but consider that Vimeo plus offers 5GB single upload that can be any length in HD. Which means you can upland an entire feature film in HD.
 
Tim Hole said:
It depends on what you are wanting to upload but consider that Vimeo plus offers 5GB single upload that can be any length in HD. Which means you can upland an entire feature film in HD.
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Sure... But why would you do that?

Cheers

Gunleik
 
Probably never would upload a feature let alone something at 5GB (given that you should able to compress most things to under a gig. The point is i think that the mentality of size limitation rather than length. YouTube is currently 15mins I believe (although they have plans to drop the limitations). It always seemed to me that Vimeo was for creatives by creatives. If u want a real audience you need to use YouTube. Like others mentioned, I prefer vimeo because it's cleaner, less mindless comments involving racism and Justin Beiber. The general clientale tends to be over 14.
 
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