When we talk about online videos, then
YouTube is the name that comes first to our minds. It is not that YouTube is
the only video-sharing website; but certainly it is the most accepted website
in its genre. Online experts believe
that the credit for the website’s popularity goes to its user-friendly
features. Users can upload videos, share them on social networking websites and
blogs, and make channels of their choice to save their favourite videos. But
there is a huge world of video-sharing sites beyond YouTube. And all these
sites have some or the other distinctive features to grab eye-balls.
Metacafe—the video entertainment engine—is famous for excellent quality videos.
The site is known for lesser duplicate videos to provide good user experience. A
team of moderators sort out videos before making them public that is why the
website serves better quality videos than any other video-sharing website. It has
about 40 million monthly users worldwide. You can find selected YouTube videos
on this site.
A majority of sharing websites provide all
kinds of videos ranging from musicals, movies, and educational videos and so
on.
Break is the website that knows
what it wants to show. The majority of the contents is humorous. A few are bloopers
and blunders caught on camera and others are scripted video clips shot by users.
Other kinds of videos available on the site are sports or military related
videos aimed at catering to the demands of its huge male user-base. Some
additional options—other than shortcuts for pause, play and zoom— such as fast
forward, setting contrast and brightness of videos and an option that tells how
much time is elapsed and how much time is left in a video make the website
unique.
There are several other video-sharing
websites that cater to the demands of different user-bases and are known for
their usability. Google Video is known
for offering numerous options for searching videos while Dailymotion is a kind of professional video-sharing site that
broadcasts newscasts, short films and commercials. So if you have shot a film,
written a script around it to make a short film then this is the site where you
can upload your video.
Revver gives an opportunity to users to earn money through video uploads.
If anyone clicks on an advertisement published with a member’s video then the member
gets 50 per cent of the revenue generated from it. Vimeo is a social networking-cum-video-sharing website and most of
the videos on this site are original. Though copies of TV serials are shown but
a team of moderators works on it to minimize the number of copyright videos and
promote original works. The site is known for accepting many video formats.
VidiLife
is known for Video Mail feature. It is similar to email except that you can send
a video recorded on a webcam to your vidilife friends and anyone with an email
account. Stickam
is an interesting website to meet new friends from around the world. Besides
offering video sharing, it hosts chat rooms and video chats. It means you can
broadcast yourself live. Just click the ‘Who’s
Live’ tab to see who are currently online.
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