Best hosting solution for linkbait videos

[menachemp]

I'm creating a series of link bait videos.  I want people to link to the pages on my site hosting the videos.  What's the best site to host them on, if my primary concern is to get do-followed links?

I'm worried about putting them on YouTube, as I imagine most of the links will be to the page on youtube.com, or worse, just directly embedded.

[PhilNottingham]

I would recommend using either Vimeo Pro or Wistia. Both are excellent out of the box solutions that work for link building.

Of these, Vimeo pro is the cheapest, but Wistia is probably better. With wistia's  "superembeds" embed code generator, it allows you to quickly build out your video player style to include social buttons and embed boxes which will help to encourage people to share the content, while ensuring everything is secure and indexable by Google.

[menachemp]

That's a little outside of my ability range.  Anything turnkey, as easy to use as YouTube, but with more control over the content?

[AlanMosley]

i dont like the youtube idea either. i like to have control over my content

i dont what your skills are as far as web development are. but this is what I would do.

Get a account with Windows Azure (microsofts cloud), use this for your cdn, host all your images and vidioes scripts and css files. you can host your whole site if you want. but just using the cdn is very cheap.

Then make a video viewer, i use silverlight but you can use flash, i am sure there is plenty of ready made solutions, and point to the video on Azure.

costs can be as little as 10c a month, even if you are very busy i doubt costs woul dbe more then a few dollars a month.