Surprising discovery

[jetpack_monkey]

When I post vids, I usually only offer streaming. I have occasionally posted a file link because someone requested it of me, but the streaming has always been the important part. This year after Vividcon, anoel hounded me after my vid posts went up about when a file download link would be available, so I put one up for all three new vids.

I'm pretty invested in my viewing statistics and I was disappointed to find that the streaming Vimeo embeds weren't getting that many views. However, on a whim, I checked my Apache logs and found that the download numbers for all three vids were far above and beyond what the streaming view statistics were (sometimes by a factor of 10).

So, I ask you, Internet -- do you prefer downloading your vids? Why? Should I go back and provide downloads for all of my vids?

Comments

[kuwdora.livejournal.com]

I absolutely prefer download. While I use Vimeo and love their service, I only stream stuff from there for first viewing maybe 25% of the time and use it more as an initial resource to link people. I like downloads so I can play in VLC player that way I can ensure that there's no surprise framerate wonkiness in my viewing experience Additionally, I like to keep vids anyway for easy for rewatching purposes and have a filing system set up where all my vids are sorted by fandom/source and then label things by vidder's name and the vid's name. Also keep in mind, more and more people have ipods and and various tablets that they watch things on. I can personally say I keep a pretty hefty playlist of about 50-75 vids on my ipod at any time for watching while on the go.

while it's a giant pain in the butt to make the vid, export the vid. upload the vid. stream the vid. write the vid post, having more options, IMO is good, because everyone has their own preferences/system limitations, etc, that would force them to download or stream.

[jetpack-monkey.livejournal.com]

It's certainly not *that* much further out of my way to upload a separate copy to my server. I just never thought that it was that important, since I do almost all of my vid-watching on streaming services and only download vids I really love.

So, apparently, I will be making downloads available for all of my vids when I properly launch my new vidding site (which will happen after I re-export some of my horror vids to remove my real name from them).