A few days ago I published a post, How To Install WordPress Manually and Why Beginners Should Do It. It was my first time using blip.tv to broadcast my videos and I have to say, I’m very pleased with the results.
The one great reason I think to use blip.tv to broadcast your videos over YouTube is video quality.
Basically, when you upload a video to blip.tv, it seems the video quality remains pretty much the same as what it looks like right after you record your video and watch it on your computer. When I upload videos to YouTube, on the other hand, I get a little loss in video quality.
Take a look. The two videos are the same videos I uploaded from my computer to both sites. You’ll notice in addition to a little better video quality, blip.tv did not resize my video when I copied and pasted in my embed code.
blip.tv version
YouTube version
YouTube does have one distinct advantage over blip.tv.
Can you guess what it is?
Popularity.
I’m sure more people will see my videos on YouTube than blip.tv simply because YouTube is so popular. So for now, I’ll upload my videos to both sites, but the ones you watch from my blog will be embedded from blip.tv.
Have you started video blogging (vlogging) yet? If not, you might want to consider it. I think we’re on the road to seeing a lot more of it.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:14 am
Wait, can you get duplicate content issues with video?
I have to start taking videos, I think I need to buy a real camera…
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July 15th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Actually, I like the appeal of less popularity for Blip.tv. I have refrained from using youtube because I don’t want my videos being found by sickos. Most of what I want to upload are video’s of my girls, especially Peanut with some Ds Awareness post and I don’t want it really found other than through my blog. If that makes sense. I have had to just use other mediums but they severely limit how long the video can be. I usually don’t want more than a couple minutes but it would be nice to have the freedom to make it longer if I want.
Also, I used to have a youtube account and something odd got posted on my blog which gave me concern I had been hacked. I cancelled the youtube account, and changed my blog password. I don’t use the same password for my blog and any other site anymore.
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July 15th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Jim
Why would I get duplicate content? I have videos on blip and videos on YouTube. Search engines cannot spider videos. I just purchased a webcam, so you’ll probably starting seeing more of me and a lot more mess ups hehe.
Debbie
That’s good you don’t use the same password. I use a different password for everything I use. To keep track of them, use the password manager, Roboform – it’s well worth the purchase.
The nice thing about blip.tv is you can upload significantly larger videos than YouTube. I uploaded a 35 minute video the other day; YouTube, however, only allows you 10 minute videos.
July 24th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
This is very interesting to me as I’m only on Vimeo currently but should probably get on YouTube. But now I see Blimp, Blip, I mean. What’s a Jannie to do??
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July 25th, 2009 at 6:38 am
“Blimp” lol.
Vimeo seems to have excellent video quality and I think is a little more popular than Blip, so more people might visit Vimeo and find your video through their search.
File size-wise (and in the non paid versions), Vimeo only lets you upload up to 500MB per week whereas Blip.tv allows you up to 1GB uploads and you’re not limited to how many.
I did check out Vimeo before I decided to stick with Blip.tv and the reason why I chose Blip.tv was the upload limits and I liked the “TV” version of the player better than Vimeo. I like how Blip.tv has the controls underneath the actual video instead of in it.
As for YouTube, they use to have a setting where you could upload large video files, I don’t think that was working out for them so they’ve put their limits back in place. This really sucks because it means if my video goes over 10 minutes, I’ll have to chop it up into separate videos. However, YouTube will probably bring you more traffic.
November 12th, 2009 at 9:14 am
I actually like all three platforms Vimeo(Mostly for the quality, ease of uploading and Privacy settings) I can upload a video on Vimeo, hide it from the Vimeo users and only have it play on my site/blog. Blip(Player Options,Scheduling options in the pro account and most of all Revenue Sharing-As soon as you upload you video you can participate in the Ad shares, Youtube(Viewers)The first place people look for video content on the web is Youtube period and they do have Ad Sharing bt only after you qualify. I think the video quality on all the services are great, you just have to upload your video the each sites specs. Long story short I use all three but wish there was a way that I could only use one but it looks like Blip.tv is working on that.
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November 12th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Hi Al, thanks for stopping by. I primarily use Blip and YouTube but have a Vimeo account just for testing purposes.
I agree, all three are pretty good. Blip has been a little easier for me to work with. For example, whenever I try to comment on one of my own videos on YouTube – my comment doesn’t post? I dun get it?
BTW, love your Avatar. I’m off to check out your video site. Thanks for the info!