Without a doubt, YouTube is the most used video platform today, being visited daily by millions of people. Below, you'll find the pros and cons of YouTube, at the same time, people can also take a look at the features of its biggest rival, Vimeo. By comparing them, it will give the public an idea which video platform is best to use.
According to Neuro Gadget, YouTube is the most popular video sharing platform so far. In one month, it has about 1 billion unique views. Now owned by Google, YouTube allows the users to upload full HD videos and even 4K content. Users can easily find videos by just writing the names on the search section of their favorite songs or TV episodes or whatever they want to view.
However, there are some disadvantages with YouTube where users don't have customer service or support, and there's no strong control over public content.
Vimeo has only about 170 million visitors per month and doesn't offer a free account for business usage and sets a minimum price of $17 per month. But Vimeo has some good news as there is no advertising for viewers and the content has a higher quality. Vimeo users can customize the video player by adding logos, colors, etc. and the analytics is more detailed. Because Vimeo has a smaller audience, it is not favored by Google in search results and it has storage limits.
YouTube is free and no storage limit. Vimeo is only free for posting personal stuff, but the companies pay $199 a year and the smallest plan has a limit of 1,000GB storage per year.
Ad Week said YouTube is without a doubt gets more traffic than Vimeo. YouTube has climbed over the 1 billion monthly unique viewers, while Vimeo has around 100 million unique viewers monthly. With that being said if viewership is within 100,000 million each month, then users are in luck.
With Vimeo, the public have to pay to use its most useful features. That's why Vimeo is generally a high quality site.