ICloud vs YouTube: what's best for storing movie clips?

Hello all, I'm looking for pros and cons of using either of them. With my iPhone I am regularly recording movie clips that a few minutes, and need to store them somewhere and share some of them with specific user. I have an iMac running 10.6 as well.
I am considering YouTube as it is directly integrated with iOS camera but i am wondering what are the limitations in terms of data size. I currently store the 150-350 MB movie clips on my iMac and i've got around 30 of them. But i plan to make more (up to 100?) and to make some space on my Mac.

Thanks for the information about iCloud storage, Julian.
However, the purpose of this thread is more to compare online storage solutions and share experience about their online storage rather than talk about iCloud or YouTube (can an admin change the title?). What vendor do you use? What video format? How big are your files? Satisfied with it?
Bellow is a storage vendor comparison from CNET :
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57428396-263/cloud-based-storage-options-fo r-mac-os-x/
Most of my move clips are actually lower that 150 MB. But somestimes it is higher and when I tested Dropbox, it would not accept a file bigger than 300MB, and 2 GB storage free is quite low.
Therefore, I will most likely choose upload via YouTube as private or unlisted. It looks like the limit is 2GB in size and 15 minutes maximum per file. There is some tuning that is recommended on Mac:
http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1297408&hl=en-U S
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