November 27, 2005...2:46 pm

YouTube or Dailymotion?

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Western, originally uploaded by Steph
A little fun sequence Michel Valdrighi and Stephanie Booth put together on a grey Sunday morning.

We all love Flickr. Unfortunately for those of us who have video sequences to share, Flickr only deals with photographs.

I have found too more-or-less equivalent services for videos: they allow you to upload and store your videos (at no cost) and let others comment on them as well as provide you with a bunch of social-like features and statistics.

I have accounts both at YouTube and Dailymotion, but I can’t decide between the two. I like the interface at Dailymotion a bit better (though there is of course lots of room for improvement), but if I look at my video-views, YouTube seems more popular. On the other hand, I have the sneaking feeling that some of my videos on YouTube didn’t upload correctly.

Have you tried one of these services — or both? Any thoughts, information or experiences you would like to share? As a visitor, which service is nicest?

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8 Comments

  • YouTube,easier to get informations

  • Dailymotion me

    今天在Stephanie的Blog看到她说DailyMotion和YouTube哪个用起�比较好.去看了一下,原�是比较新颖的online video share�务.相对�Flickr的图片分享�务�说,视频的似乎更直接,也更丰富一些.

    现在�谈谅

  • Dailymotion, definitely :)
    The “blog this” function is just better.
    Th upload module also.

  • [...] DailyMotion allows you to blog your videos directly from the site. That’s neat, but as I’m a control freak, I like dealing with the code myself. Back in November I had posted a video to my other blog, so I grabbed the code from over there, adapted it (video id), and it seemed to work. Actually, that was because I was still logged in to my DailyMotion account. [...]

  • [...] I had copied the code from another video I’d embedded in a post on my Cheese Sandwich Blog, and changed the video ID. The only problem is that DailyMotion code includes a key which is blog-specific, so people were getting an error message when they tried to play the video on the blog. I tried republishing the video here using their “blog this” feature, but that didn’t embed it properly. Finally, Olivier pointed me to the “manual” option — which I hadn’t seen, although it was what I was looking for! — which simply spits out code for you to copy-paste into your blog. [...]

  • You really should check out vSocial (disclaimer: I am a co-founder). I think the key takeaways after a 5-10 minutes test drive of the vSocial service are as follows:

    1. vSocial makes the video upload, encode, publish and distribute process brain dead simple so it just works. Our users tell us that we have really nailed it from a user interface and usability perspective.

    2. The service is differentiated from all others in the sense that the company provides browser based tools (i.e., no downloads required) that enable you to actually “do something” with videos after you have uploaded them.

    You can integrate videos on the site into your video iPod in a click. You can create posts to Blogger and TypePad accounts via Blog It!, vSocial’s web based WYSIWYG editor.

    User badges adorn MySpace, Xanga and other community pages and showcase your latest and favorite videos.

    Best of all, the new “Play All Videosâ€? feature in the company’s embedded video roll player allows consumers to watch an amalgam of clips as one continuous “reel.” This enables consumers to become virtual broadcasters by compiling stories using multiple clips.

    You can test this feature out by going to the About Page (http://www.vsocial.com/about.php) on vSocial and clicking on the “Play All Videos” button in the video roll embedded in the page.

    There you can also see the standard embedded player, which provides remote viewers visibility to comments on your video, tags associated with it and controls for sharing and grabbing the clip.

    Cheers,

    Mark
    —–
    vSocial: The Video Clip Sharing Community: http://www.vsocial.com
    Tell stories, start conversations, extend the web — with video.

  • Very Very nice information here… Thanks

  • hey steph, thanks for this. i am hoping for your help :)

    can you please let me know how to embed dailymotion video in my wordpress.com account. I use the hosted service so i cannot use plugins.

    thanks a lot for your help


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