Self hosted or YouTube Hosted Videos for SEO?

[bronxpad]

I am trying to plug holes in my site and the one thing that is lacking is unique videos. I was wondering what is the best way to go about videos for seo purposes?

Should I just post onto a youtube channel and then embed into my site or should I look to just place videos on my site with software or should I use any of the other venders out there like Vimeo? Not sure which is the best route.

Any tips?

[warnerdata]

I think it's best to use YouTube or another video host versus having the videos on your site.

And, then be sure to send the SE's a video sitemap.  Here's a pretty good write up: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/video-sitemap-guide-for-vimeo-and-youtube