Youtube has the fan base, Metacafe has the features.

EDIT: Youtube, however, has been adding new features recently. Deep linking (i.e. linking to a certain time within a video), HD streaming, monty python, etc.
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youtube is more popular than metacafe and has much larger and faster servers it also has more users and uploaders to the site it lets you upload your videos faster with less things to know about first. like you don't have to be a expert and it is uploaded fast. you could say you tube is faster and more efficient. however it has only parts of a large video.
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YouTube is mostly community based with large fan base, where as Metacafe has rich features.
metacate has the following features:
duplication elimination, adult content filtering method,community member review panel, video rank and producer rewards .
Youtube has more advertising features like deep linking than metacafe
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The difference between YouTube and Metacafe is their way of reviewing the videos submitted to them. YouTube reviews the video submitted to them and decides if that video is suitable for viewing or not, if it is not suitable, YouTube deletes the video. On the other hand, MetaCafe allows the users to review the videos submitted to MetaCafe and the users themselves decide if the video is suitable for viewing.
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Sound Interesting!!!
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Metacafe is a community based video sharing web site, that specializes in short-form original entertainment, where users upload,and view the videos.

YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips

most probably both are same.
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Users.
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YouTube is owned by Google which alone makes it far superior. YouTube has more bandwidth. As previously mention, YouTube has a larger fanbase, which also means that it has more content. I'd come up with more, but I'm afraid I'm bias towards Google, so my thoughts on the subject can't be trusted.
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The most important and obvious difference is size. YouTube has more videos and more traffic by several orders of magnitude. In addition, Metacafe seems to have a more lax policy when it comes to posting of "erotic" content and controversial content such as lock picking how-tos.
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YouTube is much larger and has a much larger audience base. Some also feel that rejection and taking down of content is more common on YouTube than on Metacafe. Metacafe by comparison decides on the suitablitly of content based on user reviews and alerts.
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Both are drugs, but Metacafe is code'ing while Youtube is Meta done.
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i think youtube is easier than metacafe.. it is user friendly... no need to download any applications.. and it is easy to find youtube downloaders too

and as we know we can experience HD quality videos too
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Metacafe is now the “world’s largest independent video site,” according to Arik Czerniak, Co-founder and CEO.
Among the other highlighted videos at Metacafe:

Metacafe’s tagline encapsulates the company’s mission: “Serving the world’s best videos.”


Metacafe is all about video quality, not video quantity,
Metacafe is not a video sharing site, it is an online video destination,
Metacafe surfaces and serves only “entertainment-grade” content.

Czerniak is emphatic that Metacafe is the “best place to watch and distribute quality short video,” and he offers data aiming to prove it.

Czerniak did a Metacafe vs. YouTube top video views analysis , comparing the number of views received by Metacafe’s top 200 videos and the number of views received by YouTube’s top 200 videos.

Results? The top 200 videos at YouTube received a total of about 560,000,000 views while the top 200 videos at Metacafe received about 630,000,000, 12% more than YouTube. Czerniak happily concludes that Metacafe is an “entertainment destination” for watching the “best videos.”

Czerniak touts a “community of 13 million viewers.”

For Czerniak, there are two kinds of UGC videos: personal or entertainment. Personal UGC videos, the “friends and family” variety, are only of interest to the small circle of people with personal attachment to the content. Entertainment UGC videos, on the other hand, transcend individuals to spark the interest of tens of thousands of viewers.

Metacafe is championing broadly entertaining videos, not uniquely personal ones.
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A key differentiator of Metacafe is its three step process for serving only “entertainment-grade” video content:

1) Video search “footprint” eliminates duplicates and improves relevancy,
2) 100,000 reviewers filter out inappropriate or uninteresting content,
3) VideoRank mines collective wisdom of viewer to determine site placement.

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Result? Only 10% of videos uploaded are accepted for inclusion at Metacafe and those that are the most engaging to viewers are organically promoted.

Is Metacafe being too exclusive? For Czerniak, Metacafe’s growth stems from its dedication to providing viewers with the “best” UGC video entertainment experience.



Metacafe recently launched a Producer Rewards program designed to foster even greater UGC video quality by providing a compensation program for content creators.

Producer Rewards heralds a new “User Licensed Content” (ULC) model, according to Czerniak. Producers are paid a fixed rate card fee of $5 CPM once video views exceed 20,000, in exchange for licensing their content non-exclusively to Metacafe. The program’s one month beta yielded 30 video creators more than $60,000 combined for their work, according to Czerniak.

Czerniak provided testimonials from happy participants in the Producers Rewards beta (appended at the end of this interview). Contrary to Google Sponsored Video for “major producers” (see “Why Google Sponsored Video is Google business as usual”), Metacafe Producer Rewards is a vehicle for real UGC video creators to take a shot at the video “brass ring.”

Czerniak believes its unique ULC model will motivate and inspire the creator in everyone. Metacafe views its $5 CPM ULC fee as an investment in growing the best UGC video library online. Metacafe is currently monetized by banner advertising at the site, not Google AdSense.

By continually enhancing the quality of its “entertainment grade” videos, Czerniak is confident Metacafe’s controlled environment will attract brand advertisers that want to participate in social media but are averse to UGC risk. Syndication of Metacafe’s ULC across multi distribution platforms is also a goal.

Czerniak’s confidence in Meatacafe’s ULC future is backed up by Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital, to the tune of about $20 million.

I asked Czerniak if Google’s $1.65 billion in stock acquisition of YouTube and Sony’s $65 million cash acquisition of Grouper speaks to the valuation of Metacafe.

Google’s high-profile, high-ticket purchase of YouTube makes Czerniak “very happy.” Google “understands” the huge potential of short form video, he believes.

Czerniak is quick to submit, however, that Metacafe has “better technology” than YouTube and is a “better entertainment destination” than YouTube. Metacafe is also much, much bigger than Grouper, according to Czerniak.

Where does that place Metacafe, for Czerniak? In the high nine figures.

I asked Czerniak if he is fielding M & A interest from third parties. Czerniak noted that online video is “very hot.”

Short form video is not an “extension of TV,” it is a new medium with unlimited potential, Czerniak believes. He asserted he is committed to taking Metacafe as far as it can go to realize that potential.

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METACAFE PRODUCERS REWARDS TESTIMONIALS

Brandon McConnell, 30, is a zoo groundskeeper by day and spray paint artist by night. He posted two videos of himself creating a painting in minuets; He used a digital video recorder. More than 1 million people have viewed his Amazing Spray Painting and Amazing Sprayer! videos, netting Brandon about $5,300 during the Producer Rewards beta program.



Mark Exner, 21, is a Merchant Marine in training and nature enthusiast. During a recent 300-day tour at sea, Exner made a video of a family of orcas swimming in a hole in the Antarctica ice; He shot his clips with an HP R707 digital camera. His video, Orcas in Antarctica, has been viewed more than 150,000 times and he made about $900 during the Producer Rewards beta program.
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