Vimeo vs Youtbe: The Ultimate Showdown

In this day and age everyone has grown accustomed to using Youtube for all their video watching and video uploading needs.  But, in the ultimate showdown between YouTube and Vimeo I have asked myself, will there ever be a winner between the two?  Both video hosting sites has its share of ups and downs along with many pros and cons. It all boils down to your own personal opinion and which service you feel satisfies your uploading needs.

Undoubtedly YouTube has a very large population of users along with followers. The name YouTube has become a household name that has reached 450 million visitors on a monthly basis. Due to YouTube being so popular it makes it more recognizable and reaches out to more people wanting to use a well-known video sharing site that help you embed items and view many things around the world. Vimeos viewing population is very small with only around 17 million visitors a month, but with that being said just because Vimeo doesn’t get a lot of traffic doesn’t mean it’s a bad site to use.

Yes, YouTube is very popular and well known by millions which allows more videos to obtain more exposure but sometimes that exposure can be a bad thing. The whole reason of getting people onto your channel and is make them stay there and continue watching what you have to put out there, but because at the end of every video they offer options to go watch videos with the same category YouTube is contributing to people being led away from pages more often.  This just makes it more likely that viewers are going to forget about your channel and forget about your vide. In this case Vimeo is a very personal site. People who use Vimeo are kept on the videos page when they are done watching it, so they get the opportunity to watch the video again or watch another one of your videos. The overall look of Viemo is much cleaner than YouTube which almost makes it more inviting. Youtube embeds their own link in very single video posted; this is very annoying and overbearing. Vimeo does not place their logo anywhere near the videos, but rather they give you the permission to embed your own logo and do your own personalizing.

Viemo is a great sharing site. It’s a better site used for any type of advertising or marketing, whether it be for you or a company. Vimeo is very personal and protected, Vimeo also a better choice due to it not leading people away from certain channels. Web 2.o is a constant of today’s aspects in today’s society. This all involves that way that YouTube and Vimeo operate. Due to Web. 2.0 we all have the ability to make anything ours wither personalizing, sharing, and interacting with many people. YouTube and Vimeo you are able to leave as much feedback as you would like underneath the videos and allows for any viewer to interact with anyone they choose. YouTube and Viemo both allow for students /viewers to interact and leave as much feedback as they would like.  They are able to post their opinions with people all over the world. Vimeo allows for the personalizing of your videos by adding your own choice of a logo onto your video.