Video hosting alternatives

You can turn of embedding if that is your only issue.

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=74648


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I personally think it's the best way to go for most videos.

-It's the 2nd largest search engine on the web, so you'll increase audience.
-It's compatible with most portable devices, including iPad, so more people can watch it.
-If you upload a quality file, it looks pretty darn good.
-Their insights are awesome, so you can learn who is watching, how they are watching, how they found it, and more.

Vimeo is higher quality, and most of their videos are compatible with iOS devices, but I still opt for YouTube.

There is a more professional way and thats using a video hosting service like vzaar. The player is not branded and it can be customised. vzaar is quite popular with creative agencies who build sites and campaigns that require video. Check them out here http://vzaar.com
Also a recent blog post on YouTube
http://vzaar.com/blog/2011/03/14/vzaar-reveals-why-online-businesses-prefer-prof essional-video-hosting-instead-of-youtube/

These types of services are great when you have a very high built-in traffic base to your website, or a big money ad campaign to drive traffic. But if you're trying to get a message out, these services limit you to only traffic that is already at your website.

Suggest you look at brightcove.com. For enterprise level video hosting they are the top of the line. Branded players with tabbed playlists. Multiple server farms around the world. Upload one file, they automatically create multiple renditions of your master in both H264 and flash. HTML5 support. Automatic versioning and streaming for ipad, iphone and android. Robust search engine optimization. Parallel posting on utube and vimeo if you wish. Great content management services. Powerful analytics. Tech support is great. Low latency live streaming services. Much more...