Sorry I missed this post @scottprock – Didn’t see it til today for some reason!

Anyway, I have mixed feelings about it.  I think there is value in uploading to Facebook because it appears bigger in the News Feed, it stays on the video tab for people to reference, and if people share it, you have a little link that tells people who don’t Like your Page already to Like it.  So that’s the good stuff.

On the other hand, YouTube views are also valuable.  YouTube ranks better in the search engines and I’ve often had a bunch of problems uploading a video file to Facebook.  Sometimes I’ve done both.

What are others thoughts?

I found success with integrating my YoutTube videos through an app on Facebook and linking my videos rather than uploading them on Facebook. I did this for a band’s page and it works pretty darn good. I’m a person that likes to keep my social channels clean and clear. If you visit this link you can find the install for the Youtube app. I promise it’s safe and I’m not a spammer http://www.involver.com/applications/ 

Hope that helps.Cheers! 
@annfurnivall @andrea-vahl @scottprock

Aha .. looks like I need to update my notifications, LOL … I didn’t see the replies until today (3 weeks after I posted, whoops)

I appreciate the replies, and it makes sense to work them both ways depending on the goal of the video.

I have seen the Involver plugin and I can see how it has it’s benefits too.

My main curiosity would be on how effective is either option. I mean, would your visitors be more inclined to push play if they didn’t have to leave FB to watch your video? It seems it would have to be pretty compelling to move someone off of FB and over to YouTube … I guess the best way to find out is to test, right

Thanks again for all the comments … Scott (  @andrea-vahl  @annfurnivall @brando-hills @dereck_arreguin )