YouTube isn’t just for kids with light-sabers and teens with webcams any more. As the popularity of YouTube increases, at student newspapers, we wonder about the advantages and shortfalls of third-party hosting versus hosting your video locally.

First off, why would any media outlet want to host their video elsewhere? Simple—unless you have a large budget, you can’t afford the bandwidth and storage space. Third-party hosting enables newspaper sites to have virtually unlimited space and bandwidth.

Unfortunately, you have less content control. Youtube and most other sites (like Daily Motion, Vimeo, or Google Video) have a size limit for each video. YouTube only allows you to upload videos that is 10 minutes or less.

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