Video Site Cheat Sheet II
Editor's Note: The Video Site Cheat Sheet has been updated several times since this post was first published on July 4. The most recent version (and all future versions) can be found right here: http://www.lightreading.com/videoshare.
1:00 AM -- Thanks for all the emails about the first Video Site Cheat Sheet. Your comments challenged me personally and professionally, as did your spelling and grammar.
Following is a new, improved version with 13 additional sites added to the list:
Table 1: The Philter's Video Site Cheat Sheet II
— Phil Harvey, Video Site Chart Thing Editor, Light Reading
1:00 AM -- Thanks for all the emails about the first Video Site Cheat Sheet. Your comments challenged me personally and professionally, as did your spelling and grammar.
Following is a new, improved version with 13 additional sites added to the list:
Table 1: The Philter's Video Site Cheat Sheet II
| Web Site | Does the service offer video editing capability? | What's the file size limit? | How much does it cost? | Can I keep a video private? | Does it require a software download? |
| Atom Films (AddictingClips.com) | No | 100 Mbytes. Clips must be under 10 minutes in length. | Free | Yes | No |
| blip.tv | No | There's no enforced limit. But the service "strongly recommends" files smaller than 100 Mbytes "for performance purposes." | Free | No | No |
| Bolt | No | 100 Mbytes | Free | Yes | No |
| Castpost | No | 100 Mbytes total storage. The site's in Alpha testing at the moment. | From the Web site: "The current Alpha service is free. But we may try to recover some of our costs through ads." | Yes | No |
| ClipShack | No | 100 Mbytes | Free | No | No |
| Dailymotion | No | 150 Mbytes | Free | Yes | No |
| eyespot | Yes | Max one-time upload limit is seven 50-Mbyte videos | Free | Yes | No |
| Filecow | No | 25 Mbytes. Note: This site doesn't show the videos. It's more like Streamload and similar sites used for hosting only. | Free | Yes | No |
| Google Video | No | None. From the company's user guidelines: "You can upload as many videos to Google Video as you like, without any size or length limitations." WOW! | Free | No | No |
| Grouper | Yes | None. This is a P2P video sharing application so there's a short preview for each movie, then users can download what they want. | Free (for now) | Yes | Yes |
| Guba | No | 200 Mbytes | Free | Yes | No |
| HomeMovie.com | Yes | None | Free (share up to 5 hours of video online per month) | Yes | Yes |
| iFilm | No | 100 Mbytes | Free | No | No |
| Jumpcut | Yes | 50 Mbytes | Free | Yes | No |
| ManiaTV | No | None stated | Free | No | No |
| Metacafe | No | 100 Mbytes | Free | No | No |
| MySpace | No | 100 Mbytes | Free | Yes | No |
| Openvlog | No | Under 5 minutes in length | Free | No | No |
| Phanfare | No | Under 5 minutes in length or less than 1 Gbyte in size | $6.95/mo. for unlimited storage | Yes | Yes |
| Photobucket | No | 100 Mbytes | Free | Yes | No |
| Pooxi | No | I dunno. The site's in French | I dunno. The site's in French | I dunno. The site's in French | I dunno. The site's in French |
| Putfile | No | 25 Mbytes | Free | No | No |
| Revver | No | 100 Mbytes | Free | No | Yes |
| Sharkle | No | 100 Mbytes | Free (up to 1 Gbyte of storage) | Yes | No |
| Veoh | No | None. This is a P2P sharing platform where a short clip of up to 3 minutes is shown from Veoh.com and users decide from that whether to download the rest of the whole video. | Free | Yes | Yes |
| vidiLife | No | No limit | Free | No | No |
| Vimeo | No | 30 Mbytes a week | Free | No | No |
| vMix | Yes (For slideshows only) | 200 Mbytes | Free | Yes | No |
| vSocial | No | 100 Mbytes | Free | No | No |
| Yahoo Video | No | 100 Mbytes | Free | No | No |
| Yikers | No | Under 10 Mbytes | $4.95/mo. | No | No |
| YouTube | No | None. From the site's FAQ: "Most videos on YouTube are under five minutes long. There is no specific length limit, but longer videos require more compression to fit in the 100MB size limit, and the quality will go down as the length of the video goes up." | Free | Yes | No |
| ZippyVideos | No | 100 Mbytes | Free | Yes | No |
| Sources: Light Reading, the Internet, and a random shoeshine guy at DFW airport | |||||
— Phil Harvey, Video Site Chart Thing Editor, Light Reading
