We took a look at some of the top video platform competitors for amateurs and professionals. Here are some of the best options if you’re breaking with YouTube:

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1. Vimeo – While YouTube can have anything from cat videos shot on a cell phone in 2006 to full length movies, Vimeo is the go-to for many professional and artistic videographers. Vimeo receives 170 million unique visitors per month and simply cannot be ignored. If a video uploaded to Vimeo is of high enough quality, it can be promoted to the front page and receive a gigantic audience. If you’re trying to decide whether or not your content will be successful on Vimeo, check out some of the popular videos on the front page and around the web so you can see if your tone fits with what is working on the site. Even if your videos aren’t super artistic or you’re not a professional, Vimeo is definitely the best alternative to YouTube in terms of platform support, audience, and metrics.

2. Facebook – The social media giant is seriously gunning to become more than just the place where your friends post too many baby or vacation pictures or a place you scroll through when you’re bored. They’ve made several big improvements to their video platform, including sharing ad revenue with video creators, putting their video platform in direct competition with YouTube. If you’re looking for a platform with a large audience base, Facebook will definitely work well for you (when a near quarter of the world’s population is on the platform, audience is the last thing you need to worry about). But if you’re looking for longevity you might be better off with Vimeo, once a video passes out of users’ newsfeeds, it tends to drop significantly in its engagement – something Facebook will need to figure out if they want to be a serious contender in the video hosting world.

3. Video Monetization Sites – If you’re more interested in monetizing your videos rather than having lots of people view them, you may want to consider one of the many platforms for video monetization. These sites are as far from YouTube as you can get, but if you’re serious about licensing your video content, and have a pretty solid list of customers interested in doing it, this might be a good option for you. Typically these sites will allow you to have  personally branded page that hosts only your content that you can drive potential customers to so they can view and license your content. Some companies that you may want to consider if you go this route: Brightcove, MediaShowroom, or Kaltura are good options depending on what you want out of your video management platforms.

No matter what platform you end up choosing to go with – even if you’re sticking with YouTube, you need a simple and effective way to move your videos around. Wispeo helps you share videos that aren’t for the masses, simply and effectively. Plus, Wispeo is now mobile! You can easily share long videos from your phone with anyone who wants to see them – or just send them to yourself so you can easily edit them on a desktop computer. Get the easiest way to share videos and photos from your phone in the App Store or from Google Play.

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But does Facebook really have a chance against the longstanding video giant?

There’s a good incentive for them to try. In 2014 video accounted for 67% of all internet traffic. And Cisco predicts that by 2019 video will move up to 80% of all traffic. This means money is definitely moving away from traditional display ads and toward video-sponsored ads, so there is a lot of pressure on the current internet giants to get video right, right now.

Recently some ado has been made about how much traction Facebook-native video has been getting on Facebook. The numbers are pretty impressive – by the last quarter of 2014, 80% of interactions with video on Facebook went to Facebook-native video (meaning videos uploaded directly to Facebook and not shared there from another platform). Most of that 80% interaction was won from YouTube videos shared on the social media platform, YouTube went from 32% at the beginning of the year to 13% at the end of it.

There are a lot of factors that go into Facebook’s winning numbers though, so the boost may not be as significant as it seems. First off, Facebook autoplays native video, that alone probably makes their interaction numbers go through the roof. Facebook also controls the algorithm for how content is displayed in a user’s news feed, so it’s a pretty safe bet that native video gets seen more and therefore gets more likes and shares based on the higher volume of eyeballs that see the video. Plus, those numbers are just on the Facebook platform. Statistics show that over its life, a video on YouTube gets more engagement than on Facebook.

From a video creator perspective YouTube is still leaps and bounds ahead on security controls, automatically blocking content that appears to infringe on copyright. YouTube also offers better and more robust statistics and multi-platform viability to video creators – though Facebook is catching up, introducing a view counter at the end of last year and creating embed options early in 2015.

YouTube has a tried and tested ad-sharing platform that will continue to encourage video creators to post their videos on that platform. Facebook announced earlier this year that they’re going to start sharing ad revenue with video creators with a new “suggested videos” feed, but it’s unclear exactly how that revenue model will break down right now. Finally, YouTube also has an awesome search engine behind it – both on the platform and on Google results – so videos don’t move out of a news feed and get lost in obscurity.

But half of the online world uses Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that Facebook passed 1 billion in one day mark – 1 in 7 people in the world were on the platform at some time during the day.

Facebook says that they’re committed to develop a “comprehensive video management system”, so that should be enough to at least give YouTube pause.

Either way, with more and more videos being created and shared online, it’s important that everyone has a tool to easily move and share their videos across multiple devices and with multiple people. Wispeo makes sharing high-resolution videos super easy, allowing a user to send up to 3GB of data for free to anyone with an email address. Plus, Wispeo works as a free video converter allowing you to convert your videos into several different formats that play nice with other devices.

Soon, with the Wispeo apps for iOS and Android, you’ll be able to easily get HD videos off your phone and with the people who want to watch them. Watch for the app in mid-September.

What do you think: can Facebook really overtake YouTube as the No. 1 video platform on the internet?

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