The Best Free Video Hosting Websites Online
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Youtube.com
Youtube.com is worlds most popular video sharing website. The benefits are that it is easy to use and it's owned by Google, so it's unlikely that the service will go away. It's easy to embed youtube videos in other sites like facebook and myspace or a personal blog. The big negative is clips are limited to ten minutes and the quality of the video is degraded when it's uploaded. This makes it a poor choice for people that want to host long format videos.
Google Video Home Page
Google Video
It's interesting that Google owns You tube and operates Google Video as well. Google video allows you to upload as many videos as you like without any limitation of length or file size. It also has some basic privacy controls to make the video publicly available or restricted to a group. All of this is offered for free.
Yahoo Videos
Yahoo Video
Yahoo Videos is similar to Google Video and YouTube. But the site is geared more to people uploading collections of videos. It has a good search that pulls in videos from other services, but it does have a few limitations. I think the biggest limitation is the size limit. Videos must be under 150 MB.
Free Video Hosts
- Metacafe - Best Videos and Funny Movies
One of the world's largest video sites, serving the best videos, funniest movies and clips. Free to upload. Seems a lot like YouTube. - Revver Video Sharing Network
Revver will give authors a share of the revenue generated from the videos they produce. The target of this site is less about personal videos and more about appealing to a larger audience. - Vimeo, Video Sharing in HD
Vimeo seems similar to YouTube. It does have one option that I haven't seen on the others. You can share your videos in HD. - MySpace Video Service
MySpace TV is one of the top five video services by market share online. It has some news corp content from places like Fox, but it's main target is MySpace users. Maybe it can become for video what Facebook has become for photos. - Veoh Video Service
You can upload and share videos for free and also get clips of TV Shows.
Are These Good Services For Family Videos
I started looking into these services since we are looking for a video hosting service to store family videos. What I was hoping to find is a place that would take videos of any length and keep master copies of the videos without losing any of the quality. All of the free services transcode the videos into a format that can be viewed on the web and this means that they reduce the bit rate and the quaility of the video. So these services are good for sharing, but I wouldn't recommend them as a cloud hosting service that you can count on to replace your local hard drive.
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Paul,
I love the hub Thank you! Two more really good free places are Dailymotion.com and Metacafe.com ...If you are into personal branding which most every single marketer online should be or if you just want more exposure to your videos ..then these two have great google rankings and with Dailymotion you can easily post any video along with description to any blog that you have access to if you have a blogger account. Great HUB...as far as the storage I have run across a few places that will allow it...I did not need it at the time so those places have slipped my mind....Flickr now allows video uploads you may check more into that..
For basic marketing purposes, not necessarily personal videos, YouTube is still tough to beat. Most videos, if produced correctly can be impactful in under 10 minutes. Most people have short attention spans, anyway.
if your goal is to save original format and not sharing of the video what is stopping you from saving them to your own website. If your hosting plan is limited to space and you are exceeding that you could always look into the Amazon's S3 service.
If you are interested in having another site share and deliver your video they are always going to compress it.
If you serve it from your own website you are not concerned about bandwidth because it is for personal viewing.
@pfuller I do want to share them with friends and family, but long term safe storage is of high importance to me. I've thought about building a storage site on Amazon S3. But, it seems like there must be an application that does this. I've done a bit more research and have found some file storage sites that support video like box.net, divshare, and badongo.com. Most have a monthly fee after 5 GB. I have about 500 GB I'd like to off-load.
Still we are waiting for something better than youtube . New revolution!!!
I like Veoh best as it allows downloading directly, if you get their free software first, and also the quality of many of the videos is HD which is rare if ever the case with Youtube. thanks for hub!
The best video hosting service should support many video formats, less filter or copyright filter for music slideshow, fast uploading, considerable storage capacity and no downloading requirement but can viewing online directly. Is there one there?
Paul Edmondson says:
13 months ago
I'm trying to find a storage or video service so I can free up a bunch of local disk space. But, I cant find a service that seems to be perfect for all the video we have of the kids. Suggestions?