Summary
Online video platforms allow users to upload, share videos or live stream their own videos to the Internet. These can either be for the general public to watch, or particular users on a shared network. The most popular video hosting website is YouTube, 2 billion active until October 2020 and the most extensive catalog of online videos.[1] There are some countries in the world placing restrictions on YouTube, instead having their own regional video-sharing websites in its place.
Notable examples edit
Specifically dedicated video-hosting websites edit
| Name | Language | Similarweb traffic rank |
|---|---|---|
| AcFun | Mandarin | 4,675 |
| Aparat | Persian | 123 |
| Bigo | English | 16,743 |
| Bilibili | Mandarin | 30 |
| BitChute | English | 4,104 |
| Dailymotion | Multilingual | 357 |
| DLive | Multilingual | 27,887 |
| Godtube | English | 77,477 |
| IQiyi | Mandarin | 1,074 |
| Kick* | Multilingual | 260 |
| Niconico | Japanese | 210 |
| Nebula | English | 13,486 |
| Odysee | Multilingual | 3,355 |
| Rumble | English | 238 |
| Rutube | Russian | 542 |
| SchoolTube | English | 107,835 |
| Tudou | Mandarin | 54,394 |
| TikTok | Multilingual | 14 |
| Twitch* | Multilingual | 49 |
| VBOX7 | Bulgarian | 19,783 |
| Veoh | Multilingual | 48,423 |
| Vimeo | Multilingual | 645 |
| Youku | Mandarin | 1,433 |
| YouNow* | Multilingual | 54,020 |
| YouTube | Multilingual | 2 |
- * Website predominantly hosts live streaming video.
Websites dedicated to adult and pornographic video sharing edit
| Name | Language | Similarweb traffic rank |
|---|---|---|
| XVideos | Multilingual | 9 |
| Pornhub | Multilingual | 13 |
| Chaturbate | Multilingual | 56 |
| Eporner | Multilingual | 87 |
| OnlyFans | Multilingual | 101 |
| LiveJasmin | Multilingual | 176 |
| YouPorn | Multilingual | 194 |
| RedTube | Multilingual | 261 |
| BongaCams | Multilingual | 294 |
| ManyVids | Multilingual | 1,628 |
| PornMD | Multilingual | 4,512 |
Larger websites which allow the hosting of videos edit
| Name | Language | Similarweb traffic rank |
|---|---|---|
| Internet Archive | Multilingual | 208 |
| Multilingual | 3 | |
| Flickr / SmugMug | Multilingual | 463 |
| Multilingual | 4 | |
| Myspace | Multilingual | 17,072 |
| Newgrounds | English | 2,532 |
| Photobucket | Multilingual | 22,186 |
| Rediff | Multilingual | 1,201 |
| Sina Weibo | Mandarin | 267 |
| Tencent Video / Tencent QQ | Mandarin | 971 (as of 25 July 2022) |
| Tumblr | Multilingual | 141 |
| Multilingual | 5 | |
| VK | Multilingual | 17 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Multilingual | 597 (as of 25 July 2022) |
Discontinued edit
| Hoster | Language | Country | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blip.tv | English |  United States |
Service ran from May 2005 to August 2015. Acquired by Maker Studios in August 2013. |
| Google Video | English | United States |
Service ran from January 2005 to August 2012. The website has been repurposed to serve as Google's video search engine. |
| HD share | English | United States |
Service ran from July 2008 to 2011. Focused on HD videos. Acquired by United Social Networks LLC in 2011. |
| Ifilm | English | United States |
Service ran from 1997 to 2008. |
| Justin.tv | Multilingual | United States |
Service ran from March 2007. Acquired by Twitch Interactive in March 2014. In August 2014, Justin.tv was officially shut down so that the company could focus on Twitch. |
| LiveLeak | Multilingual |  United Kingdom |
Service ran from October 2006 to May 2021. |
| MaYoMo | 11 languages |  The Netherlands |
Service ran from October 2009 to 2013. |
| Megavideo | Cantonese & English |  Hong Kong |
Service ran from March 2005 to January 2012. It got seized by the FBI for Copyright infringement on January 19, 2012. |
| Metacafe | Multilingual |  Israel |
Service ran from July 2003 to August 2021 |
| Mevio | English | United States |
Service ran from October 2004 to May 2014. |
| Mixer | Multilingual | United States
|
Service ran from January 2016 to July 2020. |
| MyVideo | German |  Romania →  Germany |
Service ran from 2006 to April 2016. |
| MUZU.TV | English |  Ireland |
Service ran from July 2008 to October 2015. Music videos only. |
| Openfilm | Multilingual | United States |
Service ran from June 2008 to August 2015. |
| Periscope | English | United States |
Service ran from March 2015 to March 2021. |
| Pixorial | English | United States |
Service ran from 2009 to July 2014. Acquired by LifeLogger Technologies Corp. in 2016. |
| Revver | English | United States |
Service ran from October 2005 to 2011. Acquired by LiveUniverse in 2008. |
| Sevenload | 12 languages | Germany |
Service ran from April 2006 to April 2014. |
| Smashcast | Multilingual | United States |
Service ran from the merger of Azubu and Hitbox in May 2017 until November 2020. |
| Trilulilu | Romanian | Romania |
Service ran from January 2007 until July 2020. |
| TroopTube | English | United States |
Service ran from at least 2008 to July 2011. US DOD Military OneSource communications platform. |
| Tune.pk | Urdu |  Pakistan |
Service ran from January 2012 to 2020. |
| V Live | Korean |  South Korea |
Service ran from 2015 to 2022 and transferred to Weverse Company on March 2, 2022. It was shut down after merging with Weverse on December 31, 2022 |
| Vessel | English | United States |
Service ran from January 2015 to October 2016. Acquired by Verizon in October 2016. |
| Vevo | English | United States |
Service ran from December 2009 to May 2018. The company website is still available, but its content is now consolidated on YouTube only. |
| Videolog | Portuguese |  Brazil |
Service ran from May 2004 to January 2015. |
| Vidme | English | United States |
Service ran from January 2014 to December 2017.[2] |
| Vine | 25 languages | United States |
Service ran from January 2013 to January 2017. |
| Xtube | Multilingual |  Canada |
Service ran from March 2006 to September 2021. |
White-label providers edit
White-label providers sell the technology to various parties that allow them to create the services of the aforementioned "User Generated Video Sharing" websites with the client's brand. Just as Akamai and other companies host and manage video/image/audio for many companies, these white-labels "host video content." A few of these companies also offer their own user-generated video sharing website both for commercial purposes and to show off their platform. Websites in this category include:
- Dailymotion Cloud
- VHX, which was absorbed by Vimeo in 2018
Enterprise providers edit
Listed here are video hosting providers exclusively serving businesses wanting to share video content internally with employees or externally with customers, partners, or prospects. Features may include limiting access to authenticated users, tracking of user actions, integration with single sign-on services and a lack of the advertisements normally present on public sites. Among sites in this category are:
Open source edit
- GNU MediaGoblin (software)
- PeerTube
- Plumi (software to create video sharing sites)
Web-based video editing edit
Web-based video editing sites generally offer the "user generated video sharing" website in addition to some form of editing application. Some of these applications simply allow the user to crop a video into a smaller clip. Other services have invested much time and effort into replicating the same functionality that has previously only been available via Windows Movie Maker, iMovie and other client-side applications that run outside of a web page. Some of these applications are based in AJAX and others in Flash. Some of these websites may additionally offer downloadable editors; however, this is not a desktop- but a web-based video editor list. Websites in this category include:
- Animoto
- Clesh
- Dailymotion
- Blackbird
- Jaycut (No longer available for PC)
- Magisto
- Pixorial
- WeVideo
- Tribute (website)