Video Sharing Websites

A Comparison Chart by TechCrunch

The following chart provides basic information about 18 online video sharing services. The information was gathered in early October 2007.

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blip.tv

Brightcove.tv

ClipShack

Crackle

DailyMotion

Sony eyeVio

Google Video

Megavideo

Metacafe

Motionbox

Revver

Spike (ifilm)

Stage6

Veoh

Viddler

Vimeo

Yahoo Video

YouTube

Website

Website

Unique Visitors (Comscore, 8/07)

885,000

N/A

2,187,000

26,800,000

N/A

37,989,000

4,550,000

27,001,000

Unique Visitors (Comscore, 8/07)

308,000

745,000

4,895,000

13,872,000 (divx.com)

11,476,000

N/A

569,000

48,026,000

205,593,000

Max Video Bit Rate (kbps)

1500

450 (stream), 800 (download)

Max Video Bit Rate (kbps)

500 (?)

1500 (?)

~200 (unofficial)

Max Upload File Size (mb)

100

100 (free); N/A (premium)

100

150 (basic user)

150

100 (website), N/A (desktop app)

5000 (premium); 500 (free)

100

Max Upload File Size (mb)

100 (none for premium members)

100

500

2000

250

500

N/A

100

Max Length (min)

N/A

N/A (?)

20 (basic user)

N/A

N/A (?)

8 (non-producer), N/A (producer)

Max Length (min)

N/A (?)

N/A

N/A (?)

N/A

N/A (?)

N/A

Max Screen Size(s)

16:9 (640 x 368), 4:3 (480 x 360)

320x240 (stream), 480x360 (download)

Max Screen Size(s)

400x300

640 x 480 (?)

320x240

Hosted Format

FLV Streaming or uploaded format

FLV Streaming

FLV for streaming, MP4 for downloading

FLV Streaming

Hosted Format

FLV Streaming

DivX

FLV Streaming

Supported Upload Formats

"Just about any format"

.3GP, .AVI, .DV, .FLV, h.264, MPEG2, MPEG4, Quicktime, .WMV

WMV, MOV, AVI , MPG, 3GP, 3GPP2

WMV, MOV, MPG, AVI, MPEG-4, 3GPP, MPEG-2, and ASF

MP4 (H264), MOV, WMV, AVI

mp4, m4v, mpeg, mpg, flv, wmv, avi, mov, qt, vob, rm

AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, Real, and Windows Media / H.264, H.263, MPEG 1/2/4 and motion JPEG

MPEG, MPG, MPE, AVI, WMV, WMF, ASF, M1V, DIVX, MOV, MP4, FLV, 3GP, RM, RMVB, RV, RAM and MKV

Supported Upload Formats

.avi, .mov, .dv, .mpg, .mp4, .wmv, .asf, and .qt

MOV, MPEG, MPG, MP4, WMV, ASF, AVI (including DIVX)

XVID, DAT, 3GP, ASF, AVI, DV, GVI, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG, QT, or WMV (by mail: mini DV, DV cam, Beta Sp, VHS, DVD and CD)

.divx, .avi

MPEG-4 Video Codec, H264 Advanced Video Coding (Apple Quicktime 7), Sorenson Video 3 (Apple Quicktime 5), H263 Video Codec, Windows, Media Video 9, Windows Media Video 8, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, Motion JPG, DivX 5.0, OpenDivX, XviD MPEG-4 Codec

.avi .dv .mov .qt .mpg .mpg2 .mpeg2 .mpeg4 .mp4 .3gp .3g2 .asf .wmv .flv.

WMV, ASF, QT, MOD, MOV, MPG, 3GP, 3GP2 or AVI

.WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG

Processing Time

Within an hour (according to test)

Up to several hours

Roughly the same with the length of the video (5 min video will take 5
min to encode)

Instantly (through website), or longer (through desktop app)

Within an hour (according to test)

4 hours to one week

Processing Time

Minutes (?)

Up to 24 hours

Less than one day

Few hours

Minutes

Up to several hours

Ways to Upload

Website, cell phone, FTP, desktop software

Website

Website, desktop application, cell phone, webcam

Website

Website, webcam, cell phone

Website, desktop application, mobile phone

Website, desktop application

Website

Website, desktop application, Outlook plugin

Ways to Upload

Website, cell phone

Website

Website, mail

Website (but must have DivX Content Uploader)

Website

Website, webcam

Website

Website, cell phone

Sample Video URL

Here

Sample Video URL

Here

Other Info

Recommend compressed Quicktime and Windows Media videos of 100mb or less for upload

Recommends MPEG-4 (Quicktime, Divx, Xvid) and the frame size 320x240 and MP3 audio. 5gb storage per account. You can upload images, too.

Crackle recommends that you upload videos at a bit rate of 800Kbps or more. For 4:3 aspect ratio videos, recommends a resolution of 640 x 480 (NTSC) or 768 x 576 (PAL). For 16:9 aspect ratio videos, recommends a resolution of 854 x 480 (NTSC) or 1024 x 576 (PAL). Encourages you to upload videos at higher resolutions provided that the file size does not exceed 100MB.

Japanese only, but English tutorial for uploading files can be found by clicking here.

Recommended upload specs: MPEG4 (mp3 or mp4 audio) at 2 mbps, MPEG2 (mp3 or mp4 audio) at 5 mbps, 30 frames per second, 640x480 resolution, 4:3 frame, de-interlace

Premium members can download videos

Other Info

Premium members can download unlimited videos to any computer, iPod or other portable player.

Revver staff review each video submitted manually before approving

Firefox recommend, DivX Web Player required to view, DivX Content Uploader required to upload

Veoh recommends that you encode your video at a minimum of 540 x 405 (for 4:3) using variable bit rate encoding with a target of 500 kbps.

Advanced player that supports comments at different points in video

250mb uploadable per week

Include transcript with videos

Recommended upload specs: MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format, 320x240 resolution, MP3 audio, 30 frames per second