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Videotoblog.ai Review: Buffering Issues and Failed Blog Generation
I recently tried using videotoblog.ai, a tool that promises to convert YouTube videos into fully written blog posts. While the concept is appealing—especially for content creators and marketers looking to repurpose video content—the actual performance fell short of expectations.
The Main Issue:
Every time I paste a video link into the platform, the tool begins to buffer as if it's processing the video. However, after a prolonged loading period, it fails to generate a blog and instead shows an error message. I’ve tested this with multiple links, browsers, and devices, and the outcome remains the same.
What Went Wrong:
The buffering time is excessive and seems to stall indefinitely.
Eventually, instead of delivering a blog, the site throws an error without explaining the cause.
No clear troubleshooting suggestions or contact support options are provided during the error.
Potential Improvements:
Faster or more reliable video processing.
Clear feedback or progress indicators to show what stage the tool is in.
Better error handling, including detailed messages (e.g., unsupported video formats, API limits, etc.).
Option to contact support or report the error directly from the tool.
Conclusion:
While videotoblog.ai has a lot of potential, especially for automating content repurposing, the current experience is frustrating. Until the developers address these technical issues and improve reliability, it's difficult to recommend it for regular use.
Andrew_VideoToBlog
Edited Jul 25, 2025Hey, I'm so sorry to hear about your experience. If you reach out to me at andrew@videoToBlog.ai, I'd be happy to take a look at why your videos are failing.
For what it's worth, we have a 98% success rate for all blog generations for all of our users (meaning that only 2% of blog generations fail for our users and when they do it's often because the video doesn't have any spoken audio, is marked as private, or a similar reason).
I do agree that we should have better error handling for those 2% of posts that fail to generate and that's something we're working on.
I'm so sorry that you had a frustrating experience. Again, feel free to reach out to me directly and I will take a look at why your posts are failing to generate. Thanks.
Follow up: I just came across your support ticket that you submitted less than 1 hour ago. I took a look and your latest video does not have any spoken audio. Spoken audio is required to generate blog posts. We mention this on our website and in our docs. I do agree that we can do better with our error handling, but in this case, it should have showed you an error message saying no spoken content was detected. If that's not the case, please let me know and I will fix asap.