The VIDME experiment. How is it going?

A week ago, I sang the praises of Video upload site, VIDME, as a possible alternative or addition to Youtube. So, how are things going?

Well, not good unfortunately. Which I am very disappointed about. It terms of reliability, the site still has some way to go.

In order to build a following with Viewers, it's important to be able to provide regular content. People need a solid reason to come back. Without that, a channel is pretty much doomed. New members to VIDME are restricted to a 3GB weekly upload limit until they reach 50 Followers. OK, a pain, but I can live with that. In theory, if you can keep a regular upload schedule with quality content, you'll naturally get that.

So a regular schedule is the key. People will learn when you Upload so know when to tune in.

Initially, I put up 3 videos which used all the weekly Bandwidth. Got a few views which I was quite happy with. From there I could then plan a strategy going forward. Or so I thought. It was from here I started having all the technical problems that made the whole thing really difficult.

Uploads would freeze during processing or stop uploading completely halfway through. This was costing me time. When you're running a Channel, time is extremely important. Run out of it and your ability to make new content is severely reduced. You need systems you can rely on. VIDME was becoming time consuming and I was getting nothing accomplished.

I emailed the Help team initially and the response was to Re-upload the file. I tried this a large number of times, but this always gave the same result.  This Video failed to upload. Tried a number of different files. The problem is that VIDME's uploader is not as advanced as the one on Youtube. During a 2 to 3 hour upload, the likelihood I will lose Internet connection for at least a few seconds somewhere is relatively high. Youtube's Uploader can cope with this. VIDME's seemingly cannot. I'm guessing this is the issue, but cannot be 100% certain.

Some people with stronger Internet may not experience these problems at all, but for myself, the whole system becomes unworkable with trying to run a Gaming channel and keeping up the level of content I want to work towards. 

Unfortunately, for the time being at least, the VIDME side of things will be discontinued. Will have a look at it again in a couple of months. A big shame as initially, it looked like a great opportunity.

Nick :o)