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.

I uploaded one video and selected to send it to all the networks offered (which include AOL Uncut, Daily Motion, Google Video, YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, Veoh and Yahoo Video).  It successfully uploaded to Daily Motion and Google Video.  It failed on all the others, with a message saying it would try again every few minutes until successful.  After two days of seeing the same message, I gave up.

Right now, Vidmetrix has promise, it just doesn’t quite deliver yet.  Once they work out their upload problems, it could be a very useful site for companies who want to push their videos across the web.  In the meantime you can track links to videos you already have out there and get some useful information.