List of online video platforms

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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.

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Notable examples

Specifically dedicated video-hosting websites

Similarweb global rankings as of July 23, 2023:
NameLanguage Similarweb traffic rank
AcFun Mandarin4,675
Bigo English16,743
Bilibili Mandarin30
BitChute English4,104
Dailymotion Multilingual357
DLive Multilingual27,887
Godtube English77,477
iQIYI Mandarin1,074
Kick*Multilingual260
Niconico Japanese210
Nebula English13,486
Odysee Multilingual3,355
Pladform RussianN/A
Redlasso EnglishN/A
Rumble English238
Rutube Russian542
SchoolTube English107,835
Tudou Mandarin54,394
TikTok Multilingual14
Twitch*Multilingual49
VBOX7 Bulgarian19,783
Veoh Multilingual48,423
Vimeo Multilingual645
Youku Mandarin1,433
YouNow*Multilingual54,020
YouTube Multilingual
*Website predominantly hosts live streaming video.

Websites dedicated to adult and pornographic video sharing

Similarweb global rankings 1 March 2024
NameLanguage Similarweb traffic rank
XVideos Multilingual9
Pornhub Multilingual13
Chaturbate Multilingual56
Eporner Multilingual87
OnlyFans Multilingual101
LiveJasmin Multilingual176
YouPorn Multilingual194
RedTube Multilingual261
BongaCams Multilingual294
ManyVids Multilingual1,628
PornMD Multilingual4,512

Larger websites which allow the hosting of videos

Similarweb global rankings as of 28 June 2023:
NameLanguage Similarweb traffic rank
Internet Archive Multilingual208
Facebook Multilingual3
Flickr / SmugMug Multilingual463
Instagram Multilingual4
Myspace Multilingual17,072
Newgrounds English2,532
Photobucket Multilingual22,186
Rediff Multilingual1,201
Weibo Mandarin267
Tencent Video / Tencent QQ Mandarin971 (as of 25 July 2022)
Tumblr Multilingual141
Twitter Multilingual5
VK Multilingual17
Wikimedia Commons Multilingual597 (as of 25 July 2022)

Discontinued

HosterLanguageCountryNotes
Blip.tv EnglishFlag of the United States.svg  United States Service ran from May 2005 to August 2015. Acquired by Maker Studios in August 2013.
Google Video EnglishFlag of the United States.svg  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 EnglishFlag of the United States.svg  United States Service ran from July 2008 to 2011. Focused on HD videos. Acquired by United Social Networks LLC in 2011.
iFilm EnglishFlag of the United States.svg  United States Service ran from 1997 to 2008.
Justin.tv MultilingualFlag of the United States.svg  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 MultilingualFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Service ran from October 2006 to May 2021.
MaYoMo 11 languagesFlag of the Netherlands.svg  The Netherlands Service ran from October 2009 to 2013.
Megaupload Cantonese & EnglishFlag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong Service ran from March 2005 to January 2012. It got seized by the FBI for Copyright infringement on January 19, 2012.
Metacafe MultilingualFlag of Israel.svg  Israel Service ran from July 2003 to August 2021
Mevio EnglishFlag of the United States.svg  United States Service ran from October 2004 to May 2014.
Mixer MultilingualFlag of the United States.svg  United States Service ran from January 2016 to July 2020.
MyVideo GermanFlag of Romania.svg  RomaniaFlag of Germany.svg  Germany Service ran from 2006 to April 2016.
MUZU.TV EnglishFlag of Ireland.svg  Ireland Service ran from July 2008 to October 2015. Music videos only.
Ogelle EnglishFlag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria Service ran from April 2019, [2] to 2022.
Openfilm MultilingualFlag of the United States.svg  United States Service ran from June 2008 to August 2015.
Periscope EnglishFlag of the United States.svg  United States Service ran from March 2015 to March 2021.
Pixorial EnglishFlag of the United States.svg  United States Service ran from 2009 to July 2014. Acquired by LifeLogger Technologies Corp. in 2016.
Revver EnglishFlag of the United States.svg  United States Service ran from October 2005 to 2011. Acquired by LiveUniverse in 2008.
Sevenload 12 languagesFlag of Germany.svg  Germany Service ran from April 2006 to April 2014.
Smashcast MultilingualFlag of the United States.svg  United States Service ran from the merger of Azubu and Hitbox in May 2017 until November 2020.
Trilulilu RomanianFlag of Romania.svg  Romania Service ran from January 2007 until July 2020.
TroopTube EnglishFlag of the United States.svg  United States Service ran from at least 2008 to July 2011. US DOD Military OneSource communications platform.
Tune.pk UrduFlag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan Service ran from January 2012 to 2020.
V Live KoreanFlag of South Korea.svg  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 EnglishFlag of the United States.svg  United States Service ran from January 2015 to October 2016. Acquired by Verizon in October 2016.
Vevo EnglishFlag of the United States.svg  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 PortugueseFlag of Brazil.svg  Brazil Service ran from May 2004 to January 2015.
Vidme EnglishFlag of the United States.svg  United States Service ran from January 2014 to December 2017. [3]
Vine 25 languagesFlag of the United States.svg  United States Service ran from January 2013 to January 2017.
Xtube MultilingualFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Service ran from March 2006 to September 2021.

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." 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:

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:

Open source

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

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