Veoh, an alternative to YouTube
YouTube hit it big time, no doubt about that. Everyone loves it, but it could be much better, and that my friends, is exactly what Veoh is.
Veoh is a pretty good alternative to YouTube, it nails the basic things the popular service lacks. First off, the design is nicer, and one thing you will notice as you start using it, is how fast it is. YouTube happens to be really slow, for whatever reason, and it’s one of the most annoying things. And it’s the same with Google Video, surprisingly, the download speeds aren’t great even fro Google. Besides the speed issue, one of the things i wish YouTube (YT from now on) did, is let me download the videos in a decent and compatible format. There are a few websites out there which let you download the videos from YT but you get an flv file which is a pain to open and play. In Veoh you get the videos in either avi, mov or mp4, a format for your ipod, computer or psp. However in Veoh, you can’t watch a complete video without downloading it, unlike YT. You do have a fair preview, and this would suck if they didn’t provide a download manager for Windows and Mac, but they do. Yes, you can install a Veoh client on your computer, which will sync and download your queued videos from the website. When you’re browsing videos, you can watch the preview and if you want to download it, you just click a button and it’s added to your queue. Sweet.
Maybe the community isn’t as big as YouTube’s, but it can only keep growing, and there’s already a huge database of videos. As far as the rest of the stuff goes, it’s pretty much equal to YT. Comments on videos, popular ones, highest rated, etc etc.. And you are able to upload as many videos as you want, not to mention you might win something when you upload or invite friends.
Overall, Veoh has replaced YouTube for me, it has a lot of good things going for it, just give it a try.
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Have you considered that the speed advantage is because of their smaller user base, and not just incidental? If their user base grew to the size of YouTube’s or Google’s, it would no doubt become just as slow.
I also happen to think YouTube looks better.
Rich on March 30th, 2006 5:05 pm
I know it’s because of the large user base, however for a service that big, it should not be an issue. YouTube and Google should improve the download speeds. But yes, i agree with you, if Veoh’s userbase grew as big as the ones in the other services, it would be just as slow.
Design is relative, i like this one more.
Josue Salazar on March 30th, 2006 5:38 pm
Hmmm… from my experience, veoh has much more porn than YT, which is always a great bonus for horny geeks!
andrew staker on June 12th, 2006 4:28 am
You Tube is reasonably OK but it got worse when playlists related to a chosen vid were dropped. So bye bye learning curve. Veoh vids don’t load smoothly on my machine; it loads in chunks and the search functionality is inexistant.To me Veoh is worse than YT. Other YT alternatives?
jim on January 15th, 2008 2:40 pm
Jim: I work for Viddler - so obviously I’m going to point you in that direction.
Colin Devroe on January 15th, 2008 3:23 pm
youtube is pathetic.. on their multi-video uploader they have a 1 gig size limit which is generous but a minuscule 10 minute time limit. what is google thinking?!
big small on February 26th, 2008 11:03 pm
I guess I could check for myself, but does Veoh have better overall video quality?
gronkmeister on April 15th, 2008 2:49 pm