Is there an alternative to YouTube? Testing the real operation of five video hosting sites. Best YouTube Alternatives What I Think About It

In the future, all services will give their authors the opportunity to earn money in the same way that YouTube provides. And today we’ll talk about which services already provide this opportunity and also help make your videos even more popular.

YouTube is the best, super-, mega-video hosting, which no other site of this type can compare with. And if we add the audience of all video hosting sites on the Internet, it will be approximately half of the current YouTube audience.

But, like any service, YouTube has its drawbacks. One of which is a large amount of advertising. Agree, this is very distracting, especially when watching feature films. And the quality of these very films is even worse. When downloading long videos, YouTube compresses them significantly, which degrades the image quality. This happens because YouTube has its own codec, which all videos are adjusted to, so if you store long videos on YouTube, their quality will inevitably be lost. There are other video hosting sites for such formats, which we will discuss further.

YouTube Alternatives

Why alternatives? Because you can not only watch and post videos on them, but also make money from it. As we know, there is nothing bigger than YouTube, but I will try to offer you a couple of decent services.

VIMEO

Its advantages (which is what we expect) are good video quality. Here you can also have your account and use various functions. There is a paid and free version with limited functionality. Firstly, Full HD videos can be downloaded and viewed only in the paid version, and secondly, video content downloads in the free version are limited. Just like on YouTube, in the free version you will view ads, but you will be able to show the video to an additional mass of viewers and monetize your content.

Rutube

This video hosting was created a year later than YouTube, but it deserved special attention due to its significant advantage - the Russian-language interface, so at one time Rutube began to be actively used in the CIS. YouTube, of course, realized this and quickly adapted to all countries.

Look

The same analogue of YouTube, with a much smaller audience and a small number of views. But there are no restrictions on uploading content and file sizes; you can upload videos up to 1 GB in size.

Yandex. Disk

Yandex has eliminated the video function and integrated it into Yandex.Disk. Here you can store documents, video files, as well as view and download them. Yes, the video quality is poor, but you can follow the link and download the video, which is very convenient if you need to transfer video files.

All these services have a Russian-speaking audience and are needed by those who have unique original content, selling videos and want to show them to a larger audience to promote their business or promote their channel. They are also needed as storage for fairly large files.

BuzzFeed

If you are also interested in the English-speaking audience, you can use the BuzzFeed service. Posting your videos on this video hosting site will undoubtedly help promote your videos. You can watch more about the service in my video tutorial:

I hope you enjoyed my BuzzFeed review video tutorial, so I look forward to your comments. Look for other video tutorials on my YouTube channel, and you can learn more about Russian-language video hosting sites in this video.

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YouTube analogues

Projects similar to YouTube arose both before and after the advent of YouTube: Vimeo, Dailymotion, Smotri, Corbina.tv, Music.ivi, Ruhd.ru and many others.

Some services copied the YouTube interface (Revver at the beginning of its creation; Clipshack; in Russia - Rutube).

Sites based on video content have similar structures, video hosting and distribution services, etc. Their main difference is in business models (paid/free service, use of advertising), technical details and the predominance of certain content (music videos/movies/TV shows/high-quality videos, etc.).

Foreign video hosting sites

Let's look at the largest and most popular foreign video hosting sites.

Free video hosting for downloading and watching HD videos with social network elements. Opened in California (USA) in 2004.

Vimeo has two types of accounts: paid and free. Free allows you to:

1. Upload videos of any format. For a week, each user is given 500 MB for storing videos. All files are stored on hosting services so that anyone can view or download them at any time.

2. A distinctive feature of hosting is the ability to watch videos in HD quality.

3. On Vimeo, you can share videos (or even entire albums with videos) with any user with one click. In the settings, you can specify the category of users to whom you want to send the video, for example, registered users, friends, etc. It is possible to publish videos on social networks: Facebook, Flickr, MySpace and others. You can also insert the hosting player code into blogs and any other sites.

4. Possibility of communication. You can subscribe to updates from other users, chat with friends, comment on their videos, and join communities of interests.

5. Select videos from a catalog in which videos are divided into categories. The hosting also has channels and groups that any user can subscribe to.

6. Make privacy settings.

Dailymotion is a popular video hosting service in the USA. The average monthly hosting audience in January 2013 was about 116 million users. Provides access to a large collection of videos, including in Russian. There is a Russian-language interface. Supports HD video format. Not all videos are available worldwide - there are restrictions on hosting for some cities.

There are no restrictions on uploading videos on the hosting: you can upload any number, videos are almost never deleted (except for videos promoting violence, pornography, etc.).

Video hosting has the following features:

• Video,
• channels,
• films and TV,
• communities,
• subscriptions, etc.

Russian-language video hosting sites

Let's look at the largest and most popular video hosting sites on the Runet.

Smotri.com is one of the popular hosting services on the RuNet. The peculiarity is that the site offers the possibility of online broadcasts. These are live broadcasts of users, through which anyone can go online and communicate with other users, show themselves, look at others, comment on everything that happens live. To do this, you need to create your own channel. You can create regular broadcasts like discussions on the topic of the day or simply talk about everything that interests the author of the broadcast.

The site's technology allows for the organization of up to 500 live broadcasts simultaneously, each of which can involve up to 5,000 users.

Users can view, download, and also comment on videos. The database contains both amateur and professional videos.

The hosting has paid services that make it possible to promote your video (promote it in new videos, use the “Video Leader” service, etc.), as well as use the hosting as a storage for the originals of your video files.

Russian-language video hosting, created in 2006. As close as possible in interface and functionality to YouTube. With its help, users can create their own channels and video blogs, conduct live broadcasts, etc.

Advantages: there are no time limits for downloading videos; you can download videos via URL.

The downloaded file is processed from a few seconds to 15 minutes depending on the weight and format. For example, a video in FLV format will appear on the site immediately, without processing.

A video service that allows you to download and view videos on various topics. The advantages are that on Yandex. Videos do not need to be registered separately for those who have an account in Yandex.

Hosting makes it possible to download videos from a PC, from a webcam, from the Internet (in this case, the video will only be added to the album without the ability to download: when viewing, the player of another hosting will be displayed). The video upload limit is up to 750 MB.

At Yandex. Video" has its own club where users communicate: they discuss video and hosting capabilities, offer ideas for improving it, and also ask questions. Video hosting sites that are focused on watching movies and TV shows include: ivi.ru, Myvi.ru, ZoomBy.Ru and others.

Everyone who has never even uploaded anything there is already talking about it. Teenagers joke about him in stupid American pie comedies; after filming a transformer, the young guy says that he should definitely send it “exactly” to YouTube. But did you know that YouTube is one of the worst solutions for sharing your video? As the WebWare blog says: “I wish online video looked less Webby,” i.e. it looked like a real video, like in a DVD player, or at least like the notorious DVD-Rip.

Another problem for a video producer is the size of the video. As a rule, video files are large in size, and video hosting sites limit you to the size of the video available online. It also turns out that you spoil your video even before uploading it to the web, compressing it lengthwise and crosswise. But everything suffers from this.

Webware magazine conducted an interesting video test on the care of your material, as well as generosity in the distribution of disk space and ease of downloading videos. The comparison was made with the market standard - Google YouTube video hosting.

The initial data is as follows: a VGA video of less than 2 minutes duration was taken with a frame rate of 30 frames per second. The video was shot with a Canon camera and recorded into a file of about 200 MB in AVI format.

Below are the test results:

Real download speed

Testing was carried out on 8Mbit Comcast cable with no active downloads. The results are divided into groups slow, medium And fast.

Slow

Vimeo(1 hour 19 minutes). The video didn't load very quickly. But a beautiful and convenient downloader will sensitively show the download progress.

Veoh(1 hour 21 minutes). This is the lowest result in the test. Put it on appload and go for a walk - it's useful;)

Medium

YouTube(42 minutes). A good average result, which is compensated by the fact that several videos can be uploaded to YouTube at once.

Fast

Viddler(29 minutes). This is the best result in testing.

Facebook(36 minutes). The video was quickly absorbed, and the convenient uploader constantly showed how much time was left.

Output video quality

A picture will be more valuable than many words. Below are screenshots from video services. Be sure to view them in full size by clicking on the picture.

Hello site readers! Anyone who follows the articles on my blog knows that in addition to creating websites, I am also interested in creating and promoting YouTube channels, which, as you know, can bring a decent profit.

If you are far from this topic and do not understand how and how much I get known, please read the following articles, where I explained in as much detail as possible what YouTube pays for and how to approximately calculate income per 1000 views.

But let’s not digress from the topic, today I want to talk about the main sources of traffic inside YouTube, in order to understand where your videos can get views and which method is the most promising.

How viewers find videos on YouTube:

• Search bar.
• Related videos.
• Recommended content.

Search. Everything is clear here, the user enters a query into the search bar and YouTube displays videos in the results that will be relevant to the key.

This ranking principle is somewhat similar to search engines, etc., since video hosting borrowed their work algorithm + created its own, for example, total time spent watching a video by all users(audience retention).

To get to the TOP and collect the most traffic, you will have to take into account, although not all the factors that influence the position of the video in SERP YT, but definitely the main ones.

Video optimization rules:

• Metadata: title, description, tags, preview.
• Internal factors: annotations, tips, comments, likes, audience retention.
• External factors: social networks, websites, comments.

So, initially, I tried to get views specifically from YouTube search (apparently, when creating websites, I was accustomed to the fact that search engines bring the lion’s share of visitors).

But in practice, this method does not give much effect, because all queries from the TOP YouTube search, firstly, are limited by the popularity of the query, and secondly, the audience that uses it goes on to watch other videos through recommended content and similar videos.

A simple example: when you type “kitten jokes” into the YouTube search, after watching one video, few people return to the search, then a column with similar and recommended videos comes into play.

Look what happens if you optimize all videos exclusively for search queries.

As a result, the traffic distribution picture looks like this this year.

And the saddest thing is that there is no need to talk about millions of views here, since it is precisely viral videos with some crazy name.

Related videos.

Here things are much better than with search, since the channel can receive a larger number of views due to the video being included in the “Similar” column to other traffic videos.

If we assume that 1,000 people watch a video about pizza every day, then the video from the “Related” column is more likely to receive similar traffic, since the user will probably want to know several pizza recipes.

But who he will give preference to will depend on the title and preview.

Those channels that are promoted exclusively through similar videos have the following ratio of views.

But don’t forget that YouTube is constantly changing its algorithms, and if one day a video flies into traffic-like ones and pulls others from your channel, then after a couple of days the picture can radically change and everything collapses. 🙁

It’s no surprise that most SEOs are scratching their heads trying to figure out how to get into similar videos on YouTube.

I will say right away that no one will give a definite answer to this question, because YouTube is aimed at creating relevant search results and if the algorithm is known to everyone, then what quality can we talk about then.

Therefore, all sites and forums contain only guesses and personal observations.

1. Metadata. Choose a name (title) with a key, preferably the same as those videos (competitor analysis rules) that are already bringing traffic. It is also desirable to have a key in the description and tags.
2. Preview. An attractive picture (not fake), reflecting the content of the video, which should make you click on it.
3. Audience Retention. The video must be interesting so that it can attract the attention of the audience, forcing them to watch it to the end.
4. Similar view dynamics. This means that the videos should overlap based on key queries and be on the same topic.
5. Behavior. How users behave after watching the video: how many comments were written, likes were given, subscriptions were made, etc.
6. Views. How quickly does a video gain views in the first hours and days after publication?

By the way, it was noticed that the video can end up in similar ones either after a short period of time (a couple of days) or after a few months; for me the latter happens most often.

For example, if you periodically watch a video about how to repair a car, then in the feed of similar videos and on the main page there will be videos specifically about car repair.

As you can see, these videos are located both on the main YouTube page and in a column with similar videos mixed in, the output of which cannot be influenced.

Perhaps this is all I wanted to tell you today, I will be glad if you write in the comments about your own observations of ranking videos on YouTube.

This article will focus on Russian free video hosting. This resource is a fairly good analogue of Youtube.

"YouTube" and analogue of "YouTube"

Today, the most popular on the global Internet is the foreign video hosting site Youtube, which belongs to. Every day this site is visited by millions of users from all over the world, who download thousands of copyrighted or third-party videos, and also watch millions of already downloaded video materials. Of course, given the multinational audience of the site, it was translated into many languages, including Russian. However, YouTube is far from the only video hosting service, and Russian companies also have their own prototype.

Analogue of "YouTube"

In the vastness of the RuNet there is a free Russian website that belongs to a large media company. This video hosting site is called Rutube. This network resource allows its visitors to download, that is, store their own videos, as well as view video materials uploaded by other users. It should be noted that Rutube is a direct analogue of YouTube, since its functionality and visual design are largely similar to it. The owners of this service enter into various partnership agreements with some content distribution systems. Many of them have already earned their own recognizable name on the Russian market. Thus, Rutube occupies a leading position in the Russian market for the distribution of video content.

general description

The YouTube analogue we are considering has many of the same functions as the famous original. For example, users who own the video materials they upload will be able to “monetize” them and thus earn money. This happens by displaying various advertising materials inside the video from various affiliate projects that distribute their products and services. However, few channel owners take advantage of this opportunity, since the audience of this site is not large enough.

Considering in more detail the issue of earning money on this site, you should pay attention to earnings from affiliate programs. If a user who has his own account is also the copyright holder of his content, then he can apply to join the affiliate program. However, in order for your application to be approved, your account must meet a number of minimum requirements.

In addition to the affiliate program, you can enter into cooperation with some advertising exchange and receive income from someone else’s advertising placed on your site, that is, your account.

In addition, it should be noted that the YouTube analogue quite often fails and is characterized by unstable operation of its servers. This factor has an extremely negative impact on the overall impression of users, who express their angry emotions in reviews, and sometimes even leave this resource.

In general, this is a pretty good project where people can create and maintain their own video blogs and channels, create live broadcasts and engage in other media activities. "Rutub" today is the best free video hosting in Russia.