3 Great Alternatives to YouTube

Videos are a great way to communicate a message, provide customer support and training, and add interesting content to your website or blog.

Pages with videos embedded on them not only provide more interesting content for your visitors, but the pages themselves have a higher chance of being shared through social networks and even of appearing higher in search engine rankings. Encouraging people to interact with your website and to stay longer on your page is always appreciated by Google and goes towards the large number of factors that help your content to rank.

When it comes to video sharing services, there are very few people that haven’t heard of YouTube. Boasting over 800 million unique visitors each month, it’s easily the most popular video hosting service.

However, despite providing a wide range of customisation and editing facilities – such as the new ability to select a royalty-free song to add to your video, or the ability to add post-upload special effects – there are still some alternative providers that offer some unique extra services that make them worthy of investigation.

Amongst others, these extra providers include the ever-popular Facebook (through Facebook videos), the more funky and creative Vimeo, and the unique and clever Howcast video sharing services.

Read more about the great features that these three services provide and compare them with YouTube’s own offering over on our Video Sharing Services Website Resource.