It must be Video Week on ActiveRain. A post about branding your online video channels... then a post about setting up your YouTube profile and one for customizing your YouTube channel design.

And tomorrow is the AR Video Contest deadline. And this post is about Vimeo, which is great for sharing your videos.

So if it's not Real Estate Video Week, maybe it should be? Any takers?  First week of April to be Real Estate Video Week to kick of the Spring season?

Anyway, this is a post about Vimeo.

And when comparing Vimeo to YouTube - Vimeo wins hands down, from almost all perspectives that count for online video marketing.

YouTube has more recognition and sheer volume of content (which doesn't matter for our purposes) - and of course the Google search results that are starting to happen.

Everything else goes to Vimeo:

• Most Importantly - the video quality is much better than YouTube
• 12 thumbnails to choose from, or upload your own image (yes!)
• No more blurry, best of 3 bad choices
  
  
• Second Most Important - Sharing Features
• Resizable, customisable  embeds
• Puts YT embed to shame
•  One click distribution to Flickr, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Digg, MySpace
  
  
• Easier to sign up, easier to customize your page, albums and channels
  
  
• Site is actually... beautiful? It's clean, fairly sparse, award winning design, and the text is huge and it just looks right

 Coolest Log In Screen Around...

Vimeo has had to work harder because they're smaller, but they've come up with a better final product, and much better user/end user experience.

Give Vimeo a try and upload a video. If you've already got a video made, why not syndicate it to more than one site? And then to Flickr, and Facebook, and your blog...

Here's what their video embed looks like - 700 pixels wide!

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