Light Reading [www.lightreading.com] Web Video Cheat Sheet Grid
Website Does the service What's the file size How much does it
offer video editing limit? cost?
capability?
4shared.com No They offer 1 GByte Free
of free storage, but
individual files are
limited to 50 Mbytes.
AOL Yes, you can trim From the site: "To Free
the video's length. keep things
manageable, the
maximum video
length has been set
to 7 minutes."
Atom Films No 100 Mbytes. Clip Free
(AddictingClips.com) length must be 10
minutes or less.
blip.tv No There's no enforced Free
limit. But the service
"strongly
recommends" files
smaller than 100
Mbytes "for
performance
purposes."
Bolt No 100 Mbytes Free
Break.com No The site asks: "How Free
much you got?"
That's a good sign.
No limit.
Brightcove No No Limit Free
Buzznet No 50 Mbytes Free
Castpost No 50 Mbyte clip From the Website:
requirement, unless "The current Alpha
you ask for special service is free. But
permission. we may try to
recover some of
our costs through
ads."
ClipShack No 100 Mbytes per file. Free
Up to 5 Gbytes of
storage free.
Dailymotion No 150 Mbytes Free
DropShots.com No The free version is Free
limited to 500 photos
and 10 videos.
Photos can be any
file size and any
dimension. Videos
can be any file size
and up to 2 minutes
in length.
Digg No Well, that depends. Free
See comments.
Eefoof.com No Videos must be 200 Free
Mbytes or less in
size and 10 minutes
or less length.
eyespot Yes Max one-time Free
upload limit is seven
50-Mbyte videos
Fark Video No Well, that depends. Free
See comments.
Filecow No 25 Mbytes Free
Fliqz Yes 100 Mbytes Free
Flixya No Well, that depends. Free
See comments.
GoFish No 50 Mbytes Free
Google Video No None. From the Free
company's user
guidelines: "You can
upload as many
videos to Google
Video as you like,
without any size or
length limitations."
WOW! Note: Files
over 100 Mbytes
require a software
app to upload.
Grouper Yes 110 Mbytes Free (for now)
Guba No 2 Gbytes per Free
upload. But there's
no length limit.
Heavy.com's No 150 Mbytes Free
MyHeavy.com
Afiniti's Yes None This site has a
HomeMovie.com (now confusing pricing
stashSpace.com) system where
you're required to
buy "tokes" to keep
your content on
their servers for
one year. Twenty
"tokes" cost $8 and
would be good for
one hour of video.
Simple, right?
iFilm No 100 Mbytes Free
ImageEvent No 10 Mbytes per file; $24.95/yr.
1.5 Gbytes of total
storage
Jumpcut Yes 50 Mbytes Free
Lulu TV No 32 Mbytes with a Free, unless you
free account. 100 become a
Mbytes with a Shareholder
$14.95/mo. account.
ManiaTV No 100 Mbytes Free
Streamload's No 25 Gbytes, with 1 Free (unless you
Mediamax Gbyte of bandwidth go over the
access allowed per bandwidth
month allotment or want to
pay for more
storage, etc.)
Neptune, Inc.'s No 150 Mbytes of total $59.00/yr.
Mediashare storage
Metacafe No 100 Mbytes Free
Motionbox No 100 Mbytes Free
MSN's Soapbox No n/a -- See n/a -- See
Comments Comments
Multiply.com No Site offers unlimited Free
storage, but there's
a 10 min. length limit
on clips.
MySpace No 100 Mbytes Free
Openvlog No Under 5 minutes in Free
length
Ourmedia No None mentioned Free
Panjea No 100 Mbytes per file. Free
250 Mbytes of
storage overall.
Phanfare No Phanfare accepts $6.95/mo. for
video clips up to 5 unlimited storage
minutes in length or
1 Gbyte in size.
Photobucket No Free accounts get 1 Free
Gbyte of space and
10 Gbytes of
bandwidth per
month. Video clips
can't exceed 5
minutes each.
Pooxi No 50 Mbytes Free
Putfile No 25 Mbytes Free
Revver No 100 Mbytes Free
Sharkle No 100 Mbytes Free (up to 1 Gbyte
of storage)
Snapfish No Site offers unlimited $2.99/mo. or
storage, but there's $24.99/yr.
a 10 min. length limit
on clips.
Treemo No 1Gbyte of storage in Free
all; up to 200 Mbytes
of uploads allowed
each month.
Veoh No None. Movies can Free
be any length and
as high quality as
you like.
VideoAddon.com No Unlimited storage $6.99/mo. or
allowed, but file size $39.99/yr.
is limited to 50
Mbytes per video.
Video Webtown No 30 Gbytes of Free
storage space and
30 Gbytes of
bandwidth per user
VideoEgg Yes -- Same as with Videos must be kept Free (for now)
AOL, if a video is to less than 5
too long, you can minutes long. From
use a preview the site: "While
player to trim the there's no technical
video's length and limit to the length of
erase sections you video the Publisher
don't want. can post, long
videos are
expensive to store
and stream."
vidiLife No No limit Free
Vimeo No 30 Mbytes per user, Free
per week
vMix Yes (for slideshows 200 Mbytes Free
only)
vSocial No 100 Mbytes Free
Yahoo Video No 100 Mbytes Free
Yikers No Under 10 Mbytes $4.98/mo.
YourKindaTV No 100 Mbyte Free
YouTube No None. From the Free
site's FAQ: "Most
videos on YouTube
are under five
minutes long. There
is no specific length
limit, but longer
videos require more
compression to fit in
the 100MB size limit,
and the quality will
go down as the
length of the video
goes up."
ZippyVideos No Under 10 Mbytes Free
without registration.
Up to 20 Mbytes
with user
registration.
ideo Cheat Sheet Grid
Can I keep a video Does it require a Comments
private? software
download?
Yes No
No No Powered by VideoEgg
Yes No Powered by Reality
Digital
No No
Yes No
Yes No
Yes, it is possible to No, but video must
upload a video to be in Flash format
Brightcove and then unless you plan to
never "publish" it. charge for folks to
But then you may see it, then it can be
as well just keep it in Windows Media.
on your PC. There is a software
download available
that will convert
your videos to
Flash, if needed.
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No Powered by Reality
Digital
Yes No
Yes No Mostly a photo sharing
site.
n/a No Digg's not a site where
you can upload videos,
but we've included it in
this chart because it's
one of the most logical
places to get a big
audience quickly if you
have something cool
you'd like to share.
No No
Yes No
n/a No Fark is simply the
coolest user-generated
(yet edited) site
around. It's not a place
where you can upload
videos, but the vids
that folks submit that
are lucky enough to
have their links
published here are
usually the Internet
equivalent of "must
see" TV.
Yes No Mostly a file storage /
file sharing site.
Yes No
n/a No This site is a bit
offbeat. It's not a place
to upload videos. It's a
place to tag,
categorize, and share
videos that have
already been uploaded
to other video sharing
sites. It's a bit like
watching a TV show
that's about a TV
commercial.
No No
No No
Yes No, but the software Now owned by Sony
download enables Pictures Entertainment
editing, mass
uploading, and
more sharing
options than just
using the site by
itself.
No No
Yes No
Yes Yes After all those tokes,
they must be high.
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No Now owned by Yahoo
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No Mostly a file storage /
file sharing site.
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
n/a -- See n/a -- See MSN Soapbox,
Comments Comments announced in
September, is still in
"invitation-only beta
mode" and we couldn't
get an invite to try it.
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No This site really, really
sucks. Really.
No No
Yes Yes Mostly a photo sharing
site.
Yes No Mostly a photo sharing
site.
Not sure. The site's No
primary language is
French.
No No Mostly a file storage /
file sharing site.
Yes Yes
Yes No
Yes No
Yes No
Yes Yes
No No
Yes No
Yes Yes -- The
VideoEgg publisher
is required, but it's
just a tiny Web
browser plug-in and
installs in a minute.
Yes No
No No
Yes No
No No
No No
No No This one's mainly a
service for folks who
want to see the most
viral of viral videos. Not
something for the kid's
birthday party
highlights.
No No YourKindaTV is really
an online network of
short shows. So if you
submit something, they
might use it. They
might not. So it's really
not a proper sharing
site, per se. Unless
something about you is
just damned interesting
to Brits.
Yes No Now owned by Google
Yes No