You could belong to an advertising agency that needs to share videos with clients for approval, or a consulting firm sending them to share knowledge. Whatever the case, there are many websites for sharing videos online. Upload the video on any platform (say Google Drive, YouTube etc.) and share it ahead!
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But why are there so many different types of websites out there? From free ones like YouTube to paid ones like Vimeo.
Well, each website has been built for a specific purpose and performs well in its domain. Yes, at the basic level, all of them allow you to share videos. But when we look at the features offered apart from basic sharing, these are usually built keeping a certain type of use case in mind.
For instance, YouTube was built to allow content creators to showcase their talent and reach out to the world and this can be seen through YouTube’s mission statement. It offers great features for monetization and public sharing of content, but is not the best for private sharing with clients.
Similarly, our platform VIDIZMO is designed to enable users in large organizations to securely manage and share videos, but isn’t the best if you need to share a video for a one-off instance. In that case, we’d recommend WeTransfer or Streamable.
The bottom line is that you need to choose a platform, which best suits your requirements. Here are 9 websites that you can use to share videos:
This blog article was revised to the most up-to-date information as of June 2022
VIDIZMO offers a corporate YouTube-like platform with sharing capabilities. It’s good if you need to store and manage your videos securely in a centralized repository, and then share them with clients from there.
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VIDIZMO EnterpriseTube allows you to share videos by generating multiple tokenized URLs. You can send these URLs to different people and selectively expire each of these URLs. This makes it great for revoking access on an ad hoc basis.
You can also share videos with clients outside your organization through email and also have the capability to limit the number of views or time duration of availability.
Videos readily play through the browser and recipients can add comments or timed annotations to videos.
Pricing starts at $85/month to share videos with approximately 50 secure users and unlimited anonymous users.
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This one’s a no-brainer. YouTube is a popular video platform and you already knew about it. However, we have included it in this list as it's more important to know when you shouldn’t be using YouTube to share your videos. And when it’s perfectly safe to do so.
To share videos with clients using YouTube, you can set videos as either unlisted or private. You can share an unlisted video through means of a shareable link. For private videos, you can invite people to view them through their email addresses. The latter is more secure as it makes sure only specific people can view them. You can always read more on the differences between private and unlisted videos.
There is another neat trick that you can use, which involves giving permissions to other collaborators in your channel. This way you can add viewers to your channel, who can join in and view your private videos.
Google Drive is another convenient site for sharing video files online. It works the same way as YouTube, where you can set a video as restricted and share the video ahead through means of a link. Or you can invite specific email addresses to only be able to view a video.
However, unlike YouTube, the free version of Google Drive has a limit of 15 GB. This brings in the next question; why anyone would want to opt for Google Drive when they can do good with YouTube.
In Google Drive, you can privately collaborate on videos. Unlike YouTube, where you can only share videos privately for viewing, in Google Drive, you can add people as editors or commentators as well. Moreover, you can share a folder with your clients that contains not just videos but other relevant documents as well. This is something you can’t do on YouTube.
Similar to Google Drive, you can also use Dropbox for sharing video files. Videos shared through Dropbox are optimized for streaming, so your recipients don’t have to download the video to view them. This makes it even suitable for sharing large video files. To improve collaboration with clients, you can add timed comments, which is a great feature.
However, you only get simple link sharing. You can only generate one link per file, which may be an issue if you need to share the video with multiple recipients and selectively expire them.
We also looked up reviews on G2 regarding video sharing through Dropbox, and found a couple of people complaining about the solution falling short when it comes to sharing large videos.
WeTransfer is a quick option to share video files with clients for free. You don’t need to create an account to get started and can share video file that is up to 2GB long. You upload your files on their site here, enter your email addresses followed by your recipient’s. Verify your email address and share away. The file will link received by your recipient will be valid for 7 days.
With the pro version, you get more storage and a few advanced features. You can track your downloads and restrict the number of days that the file will be made available to your recipients.
However, WeTransfer isn’t designed for video. If your video is in GBs, then your recipients will have to wait for it to download completely before they can view them. Wouldn’t that frustrate your clients? Moreover, you can’t add timed comments or notes to share important information inside your videos.
Streamable is like WeTransfer, but optimized for video. You can go over to their website, upload your video, copy its link and share ahead. You can do all of this without paying a single cent. And the best part, videos play readily through the browser and large files are compressed to make them load faster.
Your recipients will get advertisements under the free version, but you can remove them through the paid version. The paid version also offers the option to share 4K videos and add passwords to them.
The paid packages start at $13/month.
GoVisually is essentially a visual feedback and approval software. It helps you provide visual feedback on design elements, PDFs and video content as well. You can easily share videos through links and your clients can add annotations, mark specific areas and leave comments.
GoVisually is great for sharing assets but isn’t essentially a video sharing site. It supports MP4 and MOV files only. The videos aren’t optimized for playback. They do play directly from the browser, but you don’t get options to choose your desired quality. In case of feedback, you can add this to a specific frame but not between a specified duration (e.g., a comment between 0:01 and 0:10).
Overall, it’s great if you less frequently manage video assets, and work with other kinds of assets more often.
Pricing starts at $50/month for 5 users.
Wistia is a simple video hosting platform with great video analytics features to track how your shared videos are being consumed. You can share videos through links and add a password to them. All videos are optimized for playback and your clients get the option to choose their video quality.
You can also customize the branding of the player in terms of its appearance and the options that appear on it. You can add transcripts and closed captions to the video. You can even add CTAs and annotations. Your recipients can add timed comments to videos.
Pricing starts at $100/month.
Vimeo is a popular video platform that you can use to share your videos. You can upload your videos, set them as private, add a password and share them through links. Videos are optimized for playback with multiple quality options so that’s great!
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You can always try VIDIZMO for sharing videos today by signing up for our free trial today.