Youtube or Vimeo ?

[vincentdenkspel]

Hi,

I sell boardgames. A lot of them are not very known. In order for people to make an informed buying decision, i'm going to make instructional videos. What do you recommend where to host these video's: youtube, Vimeo or both and you do you recommend that?

[lesley]

[vincentdenkspel]

Thanks

[lesley]

I think it depends on the market really. Some countries one is more popular than the other. So it could be figuring out your target countries and which is more popular. But if it were me I would just use both.

[DRMasterChief]

Hi, when i am browsing through the net (just for my own private interests, hobbies....) sometimes there are problems with youtube-videos in some countries and they cant be shown then. With Vimeo i did not have problems like that until now. I also included some Vimeo vids in a Koken CMS and this works well and plays fast.

[Norwegian_Rat]

We used to load videos and tunes from YouTube and SoundCloud, and that worked fine in the start. However, as we added the iframes the page got slower and slower. It became so slow it wasnt usable. Now this was on one page, so maybe you wont face the issue we had. To solve this we created our own page with a js player, and loaded the files from our domain, and now the page is supersnappy!

[Beeta]

@norwegian_rat said in Youtube or Vimeo ?:

as we added the iframes the page got slower and slower

you need to use the embed code without loading the video player, you have to use controls=2 to do it. (source)

[Beeta]

@vincentdenkspel if you upload less then 5 videos per month you can use this: https://clipchamp.com

...but I don't see vimeo as a "video reviews" platform

[Beeta]

@mdekker uhmmm maybe as "flash player" is gone for good now, controls=2 is not needed anymore.

[Beeta]

@mdekker I'm not 100% sure about that, but yes I think that with the youtube's HTML5 player you can have many videos on the same page without slowing down the user's browser.

If all that I said is not true, this can help: https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-lazy-load-embedded-youtube-videos--cms-26743

[lesley]

Can't you use noopener on an iframe?