Which is Best ~ Vimeo or YouTube?

Most People Have Heard Of YouTube, its The Worlds Largest Video Sharing Site & More On That Later. But did You Know There is Another, Probably Less Well Know Video Sharing Website, which is Older Than YouTube ~ & Its Called Vimeo.

Founded in 2004, it Offers a Place For High Qualty, Creative Video Sharers. Its a Place Where People Really Care About their Work & Where Feedback is Very Cionstructive, as Opposed to That on YouTube, which can at Times, Be Almost Stupid & Destructive. Vimeo, Offers People a Place to Share Their Work in The Digitial Video Medium & With the World Becoming Increasingly Digitial, You can be Sure, That You’ll Hear More About Vimeo, in the months Ahead

You Can Join Vimeo Initially as a Free Member on The Basic Account, or Upgrade to the Plus Account, which offers Professional Video Makers, The Best Digitial Facilities ( YouTube is Considering a Paid Service as well, Though not in place Yet)

Vimeo Differs Slightly From YouTube, in That it Is More Simplified in Its use & More User Friendly, Offering a Series of Step By Step Walk Throughs, Compared To The More Difficult Interface at YouTube & Includes a Video Schools Link, which shows a Number of Tutorials to Make you a Better Creator

YouTube is Probably The Worlds Largest and most Famous Video Sharing Website ,Launched in February 2005 ( Now Brought By Google), it allows You to Upload any type of Video, typically of 10 Minutes In Length and is Recognised as The 2nd Largest Search Engine on The Intenet, Behind Google (  Facebook is Becoming Better as a search Engine, but not there yet)

It Also Allows You To Connect Your Social Accounts up and Share Videos With Facebook, Google+ ( Obviously) Orkut & Twitter, therefore Letting You Reach a Wider Audience.

Consider These Facts On YouTube

2 Billion Page VIdeo Views a day

35 Hours Of Video Uploads a Minute

More Video Uploaded Every 60 days Than The 3 Major US TV Networks Produced in 60, yes 60 years!

Each week You Tube Receives The Equivalent of 115,000 Full Length Feature Films in Uploads

70% Of Its Traffic Comes from Outside the US

Its ,Localised in 25 Countries, across 43 Languages

The Base Age Demographic for YouTube is 18~ 54!

10% Of YT Videos are in HD, compared to Vimeos 100% Useage

In 2010 There were 700 MILLION Playbacks ( 700 MILLION) That gives an Idea as to the Potential For Business Users

2 BILLION Page Views are Monetized Per Week!

Hundreds of Partners are Making 6 Figure Incomes Per Year ( I am a Partner)

94 of AdAges 100 Advertisers have run ads on You Tube

The Total Number of Advetisers using You Tube, has increased 10 Fold in the last year

There are Currently 10,000 Official Partners

If You also have a TWITTER account, Every Autoshared Tweet, results in SIX( 6) New You Tube Viewings, when you consider How Viral Twitter is...

Over 4 Million People are Connected and Autosharing to at Least One Social Network

So in Closing, Which is Best, Vimeo Or YouTube?...

Well, if you are Looking to Just Create Quality Content, with Constructive Feedback, Then Vimeo is Obviously The Place to be, but ,,,

if You are Using Video, for Business Purposes then its very Hard to Ignore, YouTubes stats in this Area. As a Rule, you could do as you Most people Do With Facebook & Use Vimeo for Friends, Family and Higher Quality Business Clients, while Keeping YouTube, as Your Preffered Business Choice.

As a YouTube Partner, I do The latter & Get The Best of Both Worlds, But use YouTube for Business.