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 4 February 2025 [2]
NameLanguageTraffic rank
AcFun Mandarin8,706
Bigo English23,694
Bilibili Mandarin / Multilingual22 (.com) / 609 (.tv)
BitChute English6,262
Dailymotion Multilingual200
DLive Multilingual29,498
FC2 Video Multilingual216
Godtube English127,622
iQIYI Mandarin1,925
Niconico Japanese270
Nebula English26,008
Odysee Multilingual7,039
Rumble English1,222
Rutube (formerly Pladform)Russian1,227,284
SchoolTube English254,261
Tudou Mandarin168,170
TikTok / DouyinMultilingual / Mandarin15 / 96
VBox7 Bulgarian51,142
Vimeo Multilingual1,092
Youku Mandarin / Multilingual1,938 (.com) / 42,468 (.tv)
YouTube Multilingual2 [3]
Predominantly live-streaming video platforms [2] [4]
NameLanguage Similarweb traffic rank
Kick Multilingual485
Twitch Multilingual36
YouNow Multilingual101,935

Websites dedicated to adult (pornographic) video

Similarweb global rankings 4 February 2025
NameLanguageTraffic rankIn adult category [5]
EpornerMultilingual408
ManyVids Multilingual1,819202
OnlyFans Multilingual11615
Pornhub Multilingual161
RedTube Multilingual31644
PornMD Multilingual6,987696
XNXX Multilingual393
XVideos Multilingual172
YouPorn Multilingual17527
Live webcam modeling performance platforms
NameLanguageTraffic rankIn adult category [5]
BongaCams Multilingual63788
Cam4 Multilingual766102
CamSoda Multilingual2,833298
Chaturbate Multilingual387
LiveJasmin Multilingual18730
MyFreeCams Multilingual1,581187
Stripchat Multilingual376

Broader websites which allow the hosting of videos

Similarweb global rankings as of 28 June 2023
NameLanguageTraffic rank [6]
Facebook / Instagram Multilingual3 / 4
Flickr / SmugMug Multilingual476 / 4,273
Internet Archive Multilingual179 [7]
Myspace Multilingual26,911
Newgrounds English3,453
Photobucket Multilingual25,763
Rediff Multilingual837
Tencent Video & QQ / WeTV Mandarin / Multilingual93 / 6,636 [8]
Tumblr Multilingual220
VK Multilingual25
Weibo Mandarin204
Wikimedia Commons Multilingual737 [9]
X / TwitterMultilingual5 / 78 [10]

Discontinued

HosterLanguageCountryNotes
Blip.tv EnglishUnited StatesService ran from May 2005 to August 2015. Acquired by Maker Studios in August 2013.
Google Video EnglishUnited StatesService ran from January 2005 to August 2012. The website has been repurposed to serve as Google's video search engine.
HD share EnglishUnited StatesService ran from July 2008 to 2011. Focused on HD videos. Acquired by United Social Networks LLC in 2011.
iFilm EnglishUnited StatesService ran from 1997 to 2008.
Justin.tv MultilingualUnited StatesService 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 MultilingualUnited KingdomService ran from October 2006 to May 2021.
MaYoMo 11 languagesThe NetherlandsService ran from October 2009 to 2013.
Megavideo Cantonese & EnglishHong KongService ran from March 2005 to January 2012. It got seized by the FBI for Copyright infringement on January 19, 2012.
Metacafe MultilingualIsraelService ran from July 2003 to August 2021
Mevio EnglishUnited StatesService ran from October 2004 to May 2014.
Mixer MultilingualUnited StatesService ran from January 2016 to July 2020.
MUZU.TV EnglishIrelandService ran from July 2008 to October 2015. Music videos only.
MyVideo GermanRomania → GermanyService ran from 2006 to April 2016.
Ogelle EnglishNigeriaService ran from April 2019, [11] to 2022.
Openfilm MultilingualUnited StatesService ran from June 2008 to August 2015.
Periscope EnglishUnited StatesService ran from March 2015 to March 2021.
Pixorial EnglishUnited StatesService ran from 2009 to July 2014. Acquired by LifeLogger Technologies Corp. in 2016.
Redlasso EnglishUnited StatesService ran from June 2005 to July 2008. Site returned as a licensed provider o Fox TV content, then turned into a typical news portal site.
Revver EnglishUnited StatesService ran from October 2005 to 2011. Acquired by LiveUniverse in 2008.
Sevenload 12 languagesGermanyService ran from April 2006 to April 2014.
Smashcast MultilingualUnited StatesService ran from the merger of Azubu and Hitbox in May 2017 until November 2020.
Trilulilu RomanianRomaniaService ran from January 2007 until July 2020.
TroopTube EnglishUnited StatesService ran from at least 2008 to July 2011 as part of the US DoD communications program Military OneSource.
Tune.pk UrduPakistanService ran from January 2012 to 2020.
V Live KoreanSouth KoreaService 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
Veoh EnglishJapanService ran from September 2005 to November 2024; videos and content transferred to FC2 Video.
Vessel EnglishUnited StatesService ran from January 2015 to October 2016. Acquired by Verizon in October 2016.
Vevo EnglishUnited StatesService ran from December 2009 to May 2018. The company website is still available, but its content is now consolidated on YouTube only.
Videolog PortugueseBrazilService ran from May 2004 to January 2015.
Vidme EnglishUnited StatesService ran from January 2014 to December 2017. [12]
Vine 25 languagesUnited StatesService ran from January 2013 to January 2017.
Xtube MultilingualCanadaService 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 or have included:

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 a user-generated video sharing website in addition to some form of editing application. Some of these apps 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 client-side desktop applications that run outside of a web page. Today, most of these apps are AJAX-based (formerly many used Flash before it was slowly abandoned over security issues. 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

Notes

References

  1. "Prensa - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-12-13.
  2. 1 2 "Category Leaders: TV, Movies and Streaming" . "Web Category Analysis" section. pro.Similarweb.com. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  3. Despite Similarweb usually treating distinct domain names separately (e.g. producing different rankings for X.com and Twitter.com despite the redirecting of the latter to the former), they appear to have manually made an exception for YT's popular youtu.be shortcut and do not provide a separate stat for it.
  4. "Category Leaders: Computers, Electronics and Technology" . "Web Category Analysis" section. pro.Similarweb.com. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  5. 1 2 "Category Leaders: Adult" . "Web Category Analysis" section. pro.Similarweb.com. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  6. "Category Leaders: Social Networks and Online Communities" . "Web Category Analysis" section. pro.Similarweb.com. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  7. "Category Leaders: Science and Education" . "Web Category Analysis" section. pro.Similarweb.com. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  8. Because Similarweb combines subdomains (but not alternative domains) into parent ones for these statistics, v.qq.com (Tencent Video) and im.qq.com (Tencent QQ) form one combined stat, and the international version wetv.vip a separate stat.
  9. "Category Leaders: Reference Materials" . "Web Category Analysis" section. pro.Similarweb.com. Retrieved 4 February 2025. This stat will be somewhat inaccurate, because Similarweb now collapses all subdomain stats into the parent domain, here wikimedia.org (but not alternative domains owned by the same publisher, such as wikipedia.org). While it is probably fairly close, because no other *.wikimedia.org servers provide significant public-facing services, the vast majority of usage of commons.wikimedia.org is actually as the image server for Wikipedia, accounting for 94.75% of the usage of Commons.
  10. Although twitter.com has redirected to x.com since 2024, it is still in wide use and Similarweb continues to account for it separately; the combined traffic to x.com and twitter.com could make X/Twitter closer to no. 4 in actual combined world ranking.
  11. Nwachukwu, Emeka (21 April 2019). "For African culture, Ogelle goes live". The Guardian Nigeria News. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  12. Shaeffer, Warren (August 6, 2019). "Goodbye for now".