Travel Tech: Online Video Sharing – YouTube Vs. Vimeo

Text by West Coast Editor Steve Casimiro.

There are heaps of video sharing services, but for practical purposes it comes down to two, YouTube and Vimeo, and there’s a clear choice between them.

1. YouTube

If you want access to bazillions of viewers and are willing to sacrifice resolution, uploading to YouTube is faster, easier, and unlimited. The down side? Even the site’s “high quality” mode seems fuzzy, and expect lots of mindless comments.

Lyngen Alps, Norway from The Adventure Life on Vimeo.

2. Vimeo

Vimeo, on the other hand, limits your free uploads to 500MB and one HD video a week, but your work appears brighter, sharper, and better. The site is cleaner, the videos slicker, the environment closer to indie film fest than the street brawl that is YouTube.

Read Casimiro's reviews of affordable new video cameras (Flip, Sony, Kodak) here.

Photograph by Joshua Scott