Review: Devour Compiles The Best Web Video

You've wasted at least an hour of your life watching bad YouTube videos while searching for the best web videos. We all have.

But YouTube has more video uploaded to it than the 3 major U.S. networks created in 60 years, which provides a problem: How do you find the best videos in all that crap?

Enter Devour

Devour, which comes from the makers of Uncrate (Zombie Corp), hand-selects the highest quality videos from sites such as YouTube and Vimeo every weekday.

The videos, which are displayed on Devour's minimalistic homepage as a thumbnail and title, are picked by humans. To me, this is important and makes sure that the video content quality is high.

"Fewer cute kittens, fewer nutshots, fewer laughing babies, and lots more awesome," according to their site.

And I agree.

When I first visited the site, I saw a video called "The Flip Side Bar," which depicted gender roles being flipped in a bar scene. Very cool.

I watched two others that day, "The Derelicts" and "Wingsuits."

The "Derelicts," profiled Jonathan Ward's venture into building classic cars with modern equipment but an exterior that looks like it came from the junkyard. The Wingsuits was a 100-mile-hour blast over rugged terrain.

For me, finding three randomly good videos posted in one location makes searching YouTube obsolete -- unless I'm looking for something really specific. I don't want to wager how long it would take to randomly find videos that good.

What is good?

Because Devour is selecting only the "awesome" videos, you are relying on someone else's judgement.

Their definition of what's "awesome" might not be the same as yours. "Awesome" is a subjective term.

However, this wasn't a detractor for me. The videos I watched ranged from something intellectual and funny, to something that focused on portraying the human condition, to something that blew my mind.

Each had unique content, and I think were awesome selections.

Devour has a minimalistic feel, which I like. But I don't like the surface area of the advertisements, which serve as a video border.

Most of the videos are in high definition and are playable on an iPad or iPhone.

The site has the capability for users to customize the background and layout and has a "channel" feature, which provides select videos on a subject.

Devour is also connected to the popular social media Twitter and Facebook and have a subscribe feature. They also have a way to submit videos links.

I like having a compilation of quality videos that doesn't require a scavenger hunt.

As I mentioned, the advertisement border is distracting to me, but I realize Devour has bills to pay.

The customize and channel features may impress some, but I was most impressed by this: No comments. Devour doesn't allow comments. None. Zip. Nada.

"So enjoy the peace and quiet of not having to wade through all the brilliant critiques from this great nation's junior high masterminds," they wrote on their website.

So true. But I am interested in what you think of their site, so leave me a comment below.