# YouTube Alternative Video Hosts **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 19, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-alternative-video-hosts/609987 "2012-01-19T08:01:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-alternative-video-hosts/609987/1 "2012-01-19T08:01:21Z")
What are your favorite video hosting sites besides YouTube for both viewing & posting? I am asking here as an Entertainment Media forum seems most fitting for this question but if not, I’m fine with moving it. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![RoeCocoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@RoeCocoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoeCocoa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-alternative-video-hosts/609987/2 "2012-01-19T08:08:39Z")
I’ve never posted videos, but [Blip.tv](http://Blip.tv) is pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-alternative-video-hosts/609987/3 "2012-01-19T08:34:44Z")
I like Vimeo, and now that [Blip.tv](http://Blip.tv) allows searching through and multiple pauses of their videos, I like them all right. (As of a month or two ago, that wasn’t possible. You could pause once and jump time once (if you were lucky). It was so annoying!) I know some who use Google Videos and Viddler, but I’ve never grown attached for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-alternative-video-hosts/609987/4 "2012-01-19T10:11:34Z")
> [@Achren](#): > > I like Vimeo, and now that [Blip.tv](http://Blip.tv) allows searching through and multiple pauses of their videos, I like them all right. (As of a month or two ago, that wasn’t possible. You could pause once and jump time once (if you were lucky). It was so annoying!) > > I know some who use Google Videos and Viddler, but I’ve never grown attached for some reason. I’ve been watching blip for over a year, possibly over 2, and I’ve almost always been able to pause and click to different portions of the video. The times when I haven’t have been glitches that were better the next day. Didn’t google videos stop hosting a while ago? I’m pretty sure it’s just for searching other sites’ videos now. Blip is high. Megavideo is fairly good, no commercials but caps how much you can watch in a certain time period, which can be way more annoying. Esp when it happens when my long video only has ten minutes left. Dailymotion rather sucks, imho, but will do in a pinch. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-alternative-video-hosts/609987/5 "2012-01-19T11:46:58Z")
> [@coffinjumper](#): > > I’ve been watching blip for over a year, possibly over 2, and I’ve almost always been able to pause and click to different portions of the video. The times when I haven’t have been glitches that were better the next day. Maybe it’s a ‘[That Guy With The Glasses](http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/)’ thing? I know there were other people on the forums who had complained about the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-alternative-video-hosts/609987/6 "2012-01-19T12:11:34Z")
> [@Achren](#): > > Maybe it’s a ‘[That Guy With The Glasses](http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/)’ thing? I know there were other people on the forums who had complained about the same thing. That’s where I started watching them too, but I’m not a forum person. Probably a system or browser thing if I had to guess then.