List of online video platforms
Video hosting services are platforms which 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, with 1.8 billion logged-in users per month and the most extensive catalog of online videos.[1] There are some countries in the world which place restrictions on YouTube, so some of these respective countries have their own regional video sharing websites.
Notable examples
Specifically dedicated video hosting websites
Name | Language | Alexa global ranking |
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AcFun | Mandarin | 3,044[2] |
Afreeca TV* | Korean | 1,514[3] |
Aparat | Iranian | 102[4] |
AVideo | Multilingual | 427,593[5] |
Bigo | English | 12,438[6] |
Bilibili | Mandarin | 110[7] |
BitChute | Multilingual | 5,099[8] |
Dailymotion | Multilingual | 201[9] |
Godtube | English | 33,656[10] |
IQiyi | Mandarin | 200[11] |
LiveLeak | Multilingual | 2,581[12] |
Metacafe | Multilingual | 16,486[13] |
Mixer* | Multilingual | 1,123[14] |
Niconico | Japanese | 178[15] |
Periscope* | Multilingual | 9,038[16] |
Rutube | Russian | 1,247[17] |
SchoolTube | English | 129,817[18] |
Smashcast.tv* | Multilingual | 116,483[19] |
Trilulilu | Romanian | 97,111[20] |
Tudou | Mandarin | 2,578[21] |
Tune | English | 6,989[22] |
TV UOL | Portuguese | 69,964[23] |
Twitch* | Multilingual | 41[24] |
VBOX7 | Bulgarian | 12,716[25] |
Veoh | Multilingual | 32,117[26] |
Vimeo | Multilingual | 170[27] |
Youku | Mandarin | 449[28] |
YouNow | Multilingual | 11,605[29] |
YouTube | Multilingual | 2[30] |
- * Website predominately hosts live streaming video.
Websites dedicated to adult and pornographic video sharing
Name | Language | Alexa global ranking |
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Chaturbate | Multilingual | 22[31] |
LiveJasmin | Multilingual | 33[32] |
Pornhub | Multilingual | 43[33] |
PornMD | Multilingual | 3,965[34] |
RedTube | Multilingual | 386[35] |
XHamster | Multilingual | 84[36] |
xtube | Multilingual | 1,642[37] |
XVideos | Multilingual | 70[38] |
YouPorn | Multilingual | 234[39] |
Larger websites which allow the hosting of videos
Name | Language | Alexa global ranking |
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Archive.org | Multilingual | 173[40] |
Multilingual | 7[41] | |
Flickr | Multilingual | 700[42] |
Multilingual | 29[43] | |
MySpace | Multilingual | 3,589[44] |
Newgrounds | English | 3,702[45] |
Photobucket | Multilingual | 3,042[46] |
Rediff | Multilingual | 483[47] |
Sina Weibo | Mandarin | 16[48] |
Tencent Video/Tencent QQ | Mandarin | 5[49] |
Multilingual | 35[50] | |
VK | Multilingual | 20[51] |
Wikimedia Commons | Multilingual | 299[52] |
Discontinued
Hoster | Language | Country | Notes |
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Blip.tv | English | ![]() |
Service ran from May 2005 to August 2015. Acquired by Maker Studios in August 2013. |
Google Video | English | ![]() |
Service ran from January 2005 to August 2012. |
HD share | English | ![]() |
Service ran from July 2008 to 2011. Focused on HD videos. Acquired by United Social Networks LLC in 2011. |
MaYoMo | 11 languages | ![]() |
Service ran from October 2009 to 2013. |
Megavideo | Cantonese & English | ![]() |
Service ran from March 2005 to January 2012. It got seized by the FBI for Copyright infringement on January 19, 2012. |
Mevio | English | ![]() |
Service ran from October 2004 to May 2014. |
MyVideo | German | ![]() ![]() |
Service ran from 2006 to April 2016. |
MUZU.TV | English | ![]() |
Service ran from July 2008 to October 2015. Music videos only. |
Openfilm | French, German, Italian, Spanish & English | ![]() |
Service ran from June 2008 to August 2015. |
Pixorial | English | ![]() |
Service ran from 2009 to July 2014. Acquired by LifeLogger Technologies Corp. in 2016. |
Revver | English | ![]() |
Service ran from October 2005 to 2011. Acquired by LiveUniverse in 2008. |
Sevenload | 12 languages | ![]() |
Service ran from April 2006 to April 2014. |
TroopTube | English | ![]() |
Service ran from at least 2008 to July 2011. US DOD Military OneSource communications platform. |
Vessel | English | ![]() |
Service ran from January 2015 to October 2016. Acquired by Verizon in October 2016. |
Videolog | Portuguese | ![]() |
Service ran from May 2004 to January 2015. |
Vidme | English | ![]() |
Service ran from January 2014 to December 2017.[53] |
Vine | 25 languages | ![]() |
Service ran from January 2013 to January 2017. |
White-label providers
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." Many 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:
Enterprise providers
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:
- AVideo
- Brightcove
- Cambridge Imaging Systems
- DaCast
- Dailymotion Cloud
- JW Player
- Kaltura
- Kewego
- MediaCore
- MetaCDN
- Microsoft Stream
- Ooyala
- Qumu
- thePlatform
- Ustream
- ViaStreaming
- Viddler
- Vidyard
Open source
- AVideo (software)
- GNU MediaGoblin (software)
- Kaltura
- PeerTube
- Plumi (software to create video sharing sites)
Web-based video editing
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:
See also
- Comparison of video hosting services
- List of educational video websites
- List of Internet television providers
- .video
- Video sharing
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