After trying to free service Vidmetrix, I looked around for another service that wouldn’t fail when uploading videos to multiple sites.  I came across HeySpread.

HeySpread allows you to upload a video and choose from a list of sites you want to send the video to.  I paid $50 for 1,000 credits and each upload costs one credit per video site.  On my $50 I could upload happily for quite some time.

So I tried it out and successfully uploaded several videos to YouTube, Daily Motion, Metacafe, and Yahoo (there are more sites available, those are just the ones I chose).  The upload and distribution was successful and I was very pleased overall with that part.

I signed up for Revver as another place to upload videos.  Two major problems:

1) If uploading through their site, the upload always stopped at 99% and would never complete.  This was in just about every browser on  Mac and Windows machines on high speed.

2) By using an outside service I finally got a video uploaded and they rejected it because I put my url at the end.  You’re apparently not allowed to even do that for fear a viewer might not click one of Revver’s ads.  This alone makes the whole thing useless to me because sometimes I have to put an address for people to get more information.

I signed on to Lunarpages to host several secondary sites, after they were recommended by an acquaintance.  I didn’t have any downtime or email problems.   They could run a little slow sometimes.  I did have two issues:

1.  I hated their control panel.  The panel was very slow to load a lot of the time and while its simplicity may appeal to some people, I wanted a lot more.

Vidmetrix is a video distribution site where you can upload a video under 100 MB and have it sent automatically to your accounts on a list of major video sharing networks.  You are also supposed to be able to track videos uploaded to a number of other networks.  And it’s free.

Needless to say, I had high hopes for Vidmetrix, even though the site didn’t seem to have  much information.  I signed up for an account and inserted links for the four videos one of my companies had on YouTube.  The next day I was able to see some pretty good statistics on views for all four videos.  I liked that part.