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 enabled statistics for several of them, which costs 15 credits each time.  The problem is HeySpread’s stats only include hits made after you enable the service so it doesn’t keep track of stats from videos you’d uploaded previously.

So I’ve got a pretty good team going.  I use HeySpread to cheaply send my videos to the sites I choose, then I input those urls into Vidmetrix and track them there.  That way I get stats from the life of the videos, nicely added up for me.

I recommend HeySpread’s video upload service and Vidmetrix’s tracking service but not HeySpread’s tracking service or Vidmetrix’s upload service.