Viddling Around™

Nice job on the stealth-mode prep work guys. Atlas Ventures-backed Gotuit Media launched late on Sunday night, complete with a substantial library of videos (lots of music videos) ready to go. Typical of the other YouTube clones it offers fast start Flash playback.

I’d say however that Gotuit’s UI is more friendly for general consumer. Not that YouTube’s is hard or anything, but it does feel a little MySpace-esque in light of Gotuit’s. My favorite feature on Gotuit is the one-click zoom. I’ve had dissapointing results with YouTube’s full-screen options, in the way it restarts the video, occassional long-load times, etc. Gotuit’s zoom is blazing fast, and oh-so simple, with no page reloads. Monetization, other than the requisite Google AdWords is through commercial interstitials between selected videos. And of course, they turn off the fast forward and skip control during commercial playback (rat bastards).

Question still remains, with 170+ video sharing YouTube clones out there, how many of these guys can the market support?
Other Coverage:

• TechCrunch
• Gizmodo