Videos on the Internet; it’s pretty simple to realize the
importance, but there are currently two video sharing website which have the
top rating. The first is the well-known YouTube. It is easily over powering it’s new opponent,
Vimeo. Today, there is Vimeo, which may still be far behind YouTube, but is
still in the race to surpass the beast, which Google has primed to become the
dominating force on the Internet.
Web 2.0 has helped out with the ability to not only share
with one another in written word, but in visual and vocal. We can stream videos on the Internet, which
has opened up the possibilities to produce highly structured site and social
media platforms.
Back the major discussion today, which are the differences
between YouTube and Vimeo. It can easily
be said that the upper hand will go to the top dog YouTube, which alone is
because of it’s shear numbers of views per month. This isn’t including the fact
that you can upload as many videos as you want and that includes HD videos up
to 1 gigabyte in size. This titan is
something to marvel over, especially with the backing of the most powerful
search engine, Google, but there are the downfalls to the site, which make its
competitor, shine a little bit in the eyes of the few.
The first thing that is seen is that the quality of a Vimeo
video is just a bit better than what you can find on YouTube. It isn’t a lot, but enough for people to
recognize that there is a difference between the two. The next thing that YouTube unfortunately has
is the mass amount of videos, which have to content or relevance to anything
other than to clog up the Internet with more useless stuff. Seriously, I don’t
want to deal with people bitching about the dumbest things.
And now for the lightweight competitor, Vimeo, to the
heavyweight champion of the world, YouTube. First the quality has to be noted
again. There is a slight difference in it and Vimeo wins this category. The next thing that hast to be brought up is
the fact that it is customizable for your video streaming needs, which means
unlike YouTube, you don’t need the pesky logo of the site in the corner. Unfortunately those are it’s shining
qualities.
Vimeo is still young and it seems the creators are a tad bit
greedy to make some money. They first
charge a yearly fee for the Pro Vimeo, which for most is not going to
happen. Then come the fact you can only
upload one HD video per week. In my
opinion this kind of sucks, because I want the ability to upload more than
that. Then next problem is that they don’t have the viewer mass of YouTube.
This is important when it come to wanting to show everyone what you’ve made,
though that might not be the case entirely.
My final point is that hipsters rule the site. Yes, those annoying idiot that sit in the
coffee shop that is lame, because it’s “ironic.” It is because the site is less popular than
YouTube that they use it and I would like to say you are all idiots and I hope
that you realize you’re not cool.
In my opinion, YouTube is winning, thought Vimeo still has
some possibility to it and I could find myself using it for my own videos
soon. I hope to seem some major
competition soon between the two, but the super titan might win this battle in
the end. Who honestly knows thought.
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