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Compared: Vimeo vs Youtube, which is best?

January 16, 2023 by Milton Hughes

YouTube and Vimeo are two of the most popular video sites around, and at first glance they look quite similar, but there are some key differences.

Whether you’re looking for a platform to upload and share your videos, or you want somewhere to watch great quality content, there are lots of factors to bear in mind. Both YouTube and Vimeo offer free services, but both also have various premium services, which differ greatly. Vimeo also allows for much higher video quality than YouTube, which encourages users to focus on quantity rather than quality.

Upload costs

Vimeo works the other way round, letting viewers watch videos for free, but charging creatives to upload their content.

A Vimeo basic account is free, but comes with some strict limits on the amount of data you can upload (see below for full details). Premium Vimeo accounts are priced as follows:

Plus: $7 / £6 / AU$7 per month billed annually
Pro: $20 / £16 / AU$20 per month billed annually
Business: $50 / £40 / AU$50 per month billed annually
Premium: $75 / £70 / AU$75 per month billed annually

YouTube gives watchers a chance to watch recordings for nothing, however on the off chance that you would prefer not to be hindered by promotions, at that point you’ll have to move up to YouTube Premium. This is free for this first month, and $11.99/£11.99/AU$14.99 every month from that point.

All about the costs and prices

YouTube Premium additionally gives you a chance to play recordings out of sight while you utilize different applications on your telephone (perfect for music recordings), and gives you access to YouTube Originals (TV arrangement and motion pictures appointed by YouTube).

Recordings on Vimeo aren’t peppered with advertisements, and many are allowed to watch, yet others are accessible on a compensation for every view premise called Video on Demand (VoD). This offers three levels:

Lease, which enables you to stream the video for a particular period

Purchase, which gives you a chance to stream the video for whatever length of time that it stays on Vimeo
Buy in, which gives you access to everything on the VoD’s page, including any new recordings that are transferred in future.
VoD installments go straightforwardly to the maker. All makers acknowledge US dollars as installment, however different monetary forms (counting pounds sterling and Australian dollars) are discretionary.

Summary

So overall, it would appear that YouTube is better, although if you are employed in the arts, graphics or design then Vimeo offers a viable alternative solution, albeit for a higher price.

Solved: How to spot fake-popular YouTube videos

January 16, 2023 by Milton Hughes

Is this story actually true? Who knows, but it caught my attention, as I have my eye on a BMW M3 and also because it involves YouTube 🙂

If you watch the video above, you’ll see that the story goes like this:

YouTuber had BMW M3 stolen, and saw it by chance on YouTube again being re-sold illegally at a junkyard.

This roused my suspicion because a BMW M3 that is only a few years old should not really end up at a junkyard / scrapyard. Even though the bonnet is open on the video, and there is some minor damage to the front-end, it looks (from where we are sitting anyway) to be a fully repairable car. And using the VIN you can see from here that it’s not actually ever been scrapped or written off…

The first bad sign?

No insurance underwriter is going to write off a car that is still worth about £25,000 ($40,000) without good reason - i.e. it’s worth way less than that. But why would it be?

When some people started to question this is in the comments, they were mysteriously locked and all comments removed/disabled. That’s the first warning sign.

The second warning sign is that you can see the likes and dislikes are disabled. A video with over 1m views would have at least one rating - it’s inevitable. And indeed I’d expect the number of likes/dislikes to be well into the five figures, for a video with this many views.

Locked comments are a red flag

YouTube gives you the option to lock comments, and also to prevent likes/dislikes being left. I can’t see any genuine reason to do this:

Every so often a video on YouTube goes viral and yet it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that it’s probably not fully true nor is everything as it seems. These are my two tips to spotting fake videos on YouTube - do you have any other tips?

TheVerge also has a fairly useful article here on how to spot fake viral ones (i.e. they’ve bought the views). Let’s be honest though — it’s much easier to create a fake video than it is to create a real one, and buy the views. If you create the right clickbait video title, the views will come.

Will Vimeo ever be Bigger than YouTube?

January 16, 2023 by Milton Hughes

If you’ve ever watched a video online then the chances are you have visited the YouTube website to do it. But did you know that there are other websites out there that will allow you to watch, upload and share videos just like YouTube? In fact, there are many websites out there that offer the similar or even better functionality than YouTube. One of the largest of such websites is called Vimeo.

Vimeo was founded in November 2004 approximately a year earlier than YouTube, yet it only receives around 0.98% of the voice compared to YouTube’s 97.2%, and has only 100 million registered users compared to YouTube’s 1 billion. The main reason for this is thought to be that while the creators of Vimeo were developing it in their spare time alongside their college work, YouTube was heavily invested in by huge technology companies more or less from the outset, and then was sold to Google in 2006.

Despite the fact that YouTube is so much bigger, Vimeo is still pretty big. It still receives over 100 million visits every month, and makes around $40 million each year. So it’s no small fish, and it is probably YouTube’s biggest competitor, so is there any chance of Vimeo becoming bigger than YouTube in the future?

Probably not. For starters, the fact that YouTube already has over a billion registered users will mean that it will be pretty difficult to overtake. Although there are 7 billion people on the planet, there is still a massive potential audience for Vimeo, but the snowball effect will mean that as Vimeo continues to grow, so will YouTube. The difference is that YouTube will grow at a much larger rate as it has the financial capital and share in the video upload market to just keep growing.

It also helps that YouTube is owned by the largest search engine in the world, Google. When people search on Google and videos appear in the search result, statistically there will be more YouTube videos than any other website because of the fact that YouTube has so many more videos than the other video sharing websites.

There is also the fact that Google could show bias to its own products and therefore only return YouTube videos in search results. Google denies doing this, but there have been examples when this has in fact been the case. If Google is the largest search engine in the world and is not showing Vimeo videos in search results then it will be very difficult for Vimeo to become more popular.

One thing that may work in Vimeo’s favour is the fact that YouTube has so many ads these days. Ads appear before, after and now in the middle of some YouTube videos, which many people find extremely irritating. Vimeo offer a ‘Plus’ membership where advertisements will not be shown when members are logged in. Providing that this stays at good value for money, it could be a major reason for people to begin switched to Vimeo from YouTube.

There are also several other annoyances for YouTube users such as the fact that YouTube keep closing accounts, and the YouTube autoplay feature doesn’t work for a lot of people. These may be too much for some people to put up with and if they begin to search online for a YouTube alternative, Vimeo will be the most popular result.

Guns N Roses Biggest 80s Band according to YouTube

January 16, 2023 by Milton Hughes

It’s official - November Rain is the 80s video with more views than the rest, and by quite some distance. In fact, it gets over 500k new views every DAY, not bad considering it was released 26 years ago. The idea of Guns N Roses has become as big, in some respects, as Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd. GNR had and have a mythology that is so massive it actually has grown in their public visibility. Instead of not being able to live up to the hype and expectations the idea of a GNR reunion has made fans more insatiable, hence the Appetite box set as fans either relive their past with the group or new fans discover the music and hype that made GnR iconic.

Remember when all those people complained about how long Chinese Democracy was taking or wondered what Axl was thinking? Yeah, neither do most other people. Turns out he knew what he was doing all along.

Guns ‘N’ Roses may or may not be the biggest rock band in the world today. But no one can argue their place in history has only grown. The biggest video of the ‘80s on YouTube? It’s not, as you would expect Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” or anything from Prince’s Purple Rain or a Madonna clip. It is Guns ‘N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child O’ Mine” at 692 million views. SO GNR have the biggest videos of the ’80s and ’90s. Damn.

Singles chart to include YouTube views

January 16, 2023 by Milton Hughes

The UK singles graph is getting another update to incorporate music video streams and downloads out of the blue.

While informal recordings or other client produced substance won’t tally towards craftsman streams - official recordings played on YouTube, Apple, Tidal and Spotify will.

The new principles will kick in on Friday 29 June and have been affirmed by record marks and BBC Radio 1, which communicates the graph every Friday.

In 2017 the music business saw a few records in spilling and YouTube sees crushed: “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee turned into the most-viewed YouTube video ever, while Dua Lipa had the most=watched video by a British lady that year.

Charts’ chief executive Martin Talbot told the BBC: “The way that music fans are consuming music is changing by the month. “It seems anachronistic to be saying ‘we’re only going to count the song’ when it also has a video attached to it.”

He also pointed out that big-budget videos won’t necessarily reap the benefits of the new chart rules, commenting: “This isn’t going to be a handbrake turn… we’re not going to suddenly see dozens of songs in the Top 20 that weren’t there before.” The move, which comes exactly four years after audio streams were incorporated into the chart, has been approved by record labels and BBC Radio 1, which broadcasts the chart every Friday.

	Artist	Song
1	Ed Sheeran	Shape Of You
2	Luis Fonsi ft Daddy Yankee	Despacito
3	Clean Bandit	Rockabye
4	Ed Sheeran	Castle On The Hill
5	French Montana ft. Sway Lee	Unforgettable
6	DJ Khaled ft Justin Bieber, Quavo & Chance The Rapper	I’m The One
7	Dua Lipa	New Rules
8	Jason Derulo ft Nicki Minaj & TY	Swalla
9	Little Mix	Touch
10	Camila Cabello ft Young Thug	Havana

In a test, melodies with viral recordings just delighted in a little lift to their outline position.

A few craftsmen and video makers have just respected the move, with pop vocalist Dua Lipa taking note of how her breakout video for “New Rules” was “extremely essential to me in my profession” while Years and Years frontman Olly Alexander - who is discharging a video for each tune on the band’s forthcoming collection Palo Santo - said numerous fans think about a video as an inherent piece of a melody: “The reality they’ll be considered now for the outlines is something worth being thankful for,” he said.

YouTube Web Video Stars

January 16, 2023 by Milton Hughes

Can it really be only five years ago? YouTube is so culturally ingrained that thinking of a time before it existed is almost as mind-boggling as thinking of the pre-internet era itself. None the less, the site’s first video looks very much like the historical artefact it is. Uploaded on 23 April 2005 “Me at the zoo” is a poor-quality, 19-second clip featuring co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of San Diego Zoo’s elephant enclosure. He says: “The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really long, um… trunks.” He pauses. “And that’s pretty much all there is to say.”

Except of course, there was a lot more to say. Five years after Karim and two fellow PayPal employees Chad Hurley (now YouTube’s CEO) and Steve Chen (now chief technology officer) founded their video-sharing website, it hosts more than 120 million videos and 300 million accounts. Thanks to its founders, who sold it to Google a year after its inception for $1.65bn, the word “viral” now suggests a popular video before it does a nasty infection.

The site is a phenomenon that’s generated a whole culture of sub-phenomena with its canon of YouTube celebrities. Never before had anyone with a video camera been able to reach a potential audience of millions and for many – including pensioner Peter Oakley and BMX rider Danny MacAskill (both featured here) – they did so by accident. But when Hurley announced in 2007 that the site would start sharing advertising revenue with key “content providers” it meant that stars like Tay Zonday (also featured) were able to turn their hobby into financially viable, even lucrative, careers.

Tthe science behind what makes a video a hit and a vlogger a star remains vague. As Zonday says: “You could sooner herd cats than plan for the public to like or dislike something.” It’s an illuminating choice of phrase: cats are, of course, a pretty good bet. Likewise babies, though it’s still perplexing that a merely moderately amusing family moment is the most watched YouTube video of all time. “Charlie bit my finger” is a 56-second clip in which Charlie, aged one, bites the finger of his big brother Harry, aged three. It’s been viewed almost 177 million times.

How to Embed YouTube Videos into Ghost CMS

January 12, 2023 by Milton Hughes

Ghost CMS is built for simplicity, thus Embedding a YouTube video is also very simple.

But…

You would get lost in your simple theme if you messed with your HTML code.

Here is what will your visitors see in case you made mistake a mistake while embedding your YouTube video.

You also need to setup your height, width, frame, and many other aspects of your video.

We are going to discuss this step by step, so you keep focusing on your writing instead running into Coding Math.

Here we go!

Embedding the Video

Log into your account either it is self-hosted version or Ghost Pro.
Navigate to your editor as usual.
Grab your YouTube video embed code as following:

Why did YouTube close my account?

December 29, 2022 by Milton Hughes

If you have a website and you have been using YouTube as a method of driving traffic to your website, then you may want to take note. It would appear that Google – who have owned YouTube since late 2006 – are on a mission to clean up the internet by ridding it of spam and ensuring that all content created and published by webmasters is ‘useful’ to those who are reading it.

For many years, thousands upon thousands of people have been complaining that their YouTube accounts have been terminated with not so much as a warning, an explanation or any hope of getting them back. Today there seem to be no signs of things changing, as it is estimated that Google permanently deletes over 10,000 YouTube accounts every single day.

Why is this Happening?

Google’s official explanation for the sudden removal of accounts and uploaded videos is that such content is in violation of one or more of over a dozen different policies that they have created and enforced over the years. These policies have been designed and created in order to ensure that all videos uploaded are suitable for the YouTube audience.

As a result, all videos that are uploaded to the website are monitored in order to ensure that they do not violate any of these policies. Depending on the nature of the content of the video, it may be subject to further moderation and in many cases even manual review. YouTube account holders who upload too many videos that violate the strict policies will find that they are promptly banished from the website, and any subsequent accounts created afterwards - regardless of the actual content of the videos uploaded - will suffer from the same fate.

Downloading YouTube Videos - is it possible?

December 26, 2022 by Milton Hughes

Everyone knows that YouTube is promoting its “Premium” offering now, and it wants as many people as possible to use that. Why? Because it makes them money.

But there is a drawback: despite what many people think, downloading videos from YouTube isn’t possible from their website, even *if* you have a YouTube Premium subscription. So inevitably people are looking at other ways to download the YouTube source video for offline use.

Some reasons why people might want to download YouTube Videos are:

For educational purposes i.e. for your study
To make a backup or copy for safety reasons
To edit it and add it to another video that you’ve made
For many other “fair use” reasons not otherwise listed.

The easiest way that I have found to download YouTube Videos is to use a program like Viddly or DLYou.tube. They are Freemium - that means they are free to an extent. It’s not possible to use them completely for free but it depends on your usecase; for most users you won’t need to pay I suspect!

Websites like SaveFrom that promise ‘free’ YouTube video downloads always come with dodgy spyware or browser extensions. The disturbing thing here is that you DON’T KNOW what is inside them. They are not downloaded from places like the Play Store or from Chrome Webstore - that is very worrying.

All is not as it seems…

Why do websites like SaveFrom not use the Website or Mozilla Extensions website to promote their browser plugin? Because quite simply they don’t want the code (source) to be analyzed. It contains all sorts of dodgy things. I am going to post about my deep analysis of SaveFrom shortly, the results may shock you. Most surprising is that despite having millions of purported downloads, nobody seems to have spotted what they are doing!

Stay tuned…