List of online video platforms
Online video platforms enable users to upload, share, and live stream videos over the Internet. These videos may be accessible to the general public or restricted to specific users within a shared network. YouTube is the most popular video hosting site, boasting approximately 2 billion active users as of October 2020, and it features the largest catalog of online videos. However, some countries impose restrictions on YouTube, leading to the development of regional video-sharing websites that serve as alternatives to the platform. These localized services often cater to specific cultural or regulatory needs, providing users in those regions with access to video content while adhering to local laws and preferences.
Notable examplesEdit
Specifically dedicated video-hosting websitesEdit
| Name | Language | Traffic rank |
|---|---|---|
| AcFun | Mandarin | 8,706 |
| Bigo | English | 23,694 |
| Bilibili | Mandarin / Multilingual | 22 (.com) / 609 (.tv) |
| BitChute | English | 6,262 |
| Dailymotion | Multilingual | 200 |
| DLive | Multilingual | 29,498 |
| FC2 Video | Multilingual | 216 |
| Godtube | English | 127,622 |
| iQIYI | Mandarin | 1,925 |
| Niconico | Japanese | 270 |
| Nebula | English | 26,008 |
| Odysee | Multilingual | 7,039 |
| Rumble | English | 1,222 |
| Rutube (formerly Pladform) | Russian | 1,227,284 |
| SchoolTube | English | 254,261 |
| Tudou | Mandarin | 168,170 |
| TikTok / Douyin | Multilingual / Mandarin | 15 / 96 |
| VBox7 | Bulgarian | 51,142 |
| Vimeo | Multilingual | 1,092 |
| Youku | Mandarin / Multilingual | 1,938 (.com) / 42,468 (.tv) |
| YouTube | Multilingual | 2[2] |
| Name | Language | Similarweb traffic rank |
|---|---|---|
| Kick | Multilingual | 485 |
| Twitch | Multilingual | 36 |
| YouNow | Multilingual | 101,935 |
Websites dedicated to adult (pornographic) videoEdit
| Name | Language | Traffic rank | In adult category[4] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eporner | Multilingual | 40 | 8 |
| ManyVids | Multilingual | 1,819 | 202 |
| OnlyFans | Multilingual | 116 | 15 |
| Pornhub | Multilingual | 16 | 1 |
| RedTube | Multilingual | 316 | 44 |
| PornMD | Multilingual | 6,987 | 696 |
| XNXX | Multilingual | 39 | 3 |
| XVideos | Multilingual | 17 | 2 |
| YouPorn | Multilingual | 175 | 27 |
| Name | Language | Traffic rank | In adult category[4] |
|---|---|---|---|
| BongaCams | Multilingual | 637 | 88 |
| Cam4 | Multilingual | 766 | 102 |
| CamSoda | Multilingual | 2,833 | 298 |
| Chaturbate | Multilingual | 38 | 7 |
| LiveJasmin | Multilingual | 187 | 30 |
| MyFreeCams | Multilingual | 1,581 | 187 |
| Stripchat | Multilingual | 37 | 6 |
Broader websites which allow the hosting of videosEdit
| Name | Language | Traffic rank[5] |
|---|---|---|
| Facebook / Instagram | Multilingual | 3 / 4 |
| Flickr / SmugMug | Multilingual | 476 / 4,273 |
| Internet Archive | Multilingual | 179[6] |
| Myspace | Multilingual | 26,911 |
| Newgrounds | English | 3,453 |
| Photobucket | Multilingual | 25,763 |
| Rediff | Multilingual | 837 |
| Tencent Video & QQ / WeTV | Mandarin / Multilingual | 93 / 6,636[7] |
| Tumblr | Multilingual | 220 |
| VK | Multilingual | 25 |
| Mandarin | 204 | |
| Wikimedia Commons | Multilingual | 737[8] |
| X / Twitter | Multilingual | 5 / 78[9] |
DiscontinuedEdit
| 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. |
| MUZU.TV | English | Ireland | Service ran from July 2008 to October 2015. Music videos only. |
| MyVideo | German | Romania → Germany | Service ran from 2006 to April 2016. |
| Ogelle | English | Nigeria | Service ran from April 2019,[10] to 2022. |
| 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. |
| Redlasso | English | United States | Service 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 | 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 as part of the US DoD communications program Military OneSource. |
| 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 |
| Veoh | English | Japan | Service ran from September 2005 to November 2024; videos and content transferred to FC2 Video. |
| 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.[11] |
| Vine | 25 languages | United States | Service ran from January 2013 to January 2017. |
| Xtube | Multilingual | Canada | Service ran from March 2006 to September 2021. |
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Category Leaders: TV, Movies and Streaming". "Web Category Analysis" section. pro.Similarweb.com. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Category Leaders: Computers, Electronics and Technology". "Web Category Analysis" section. pro.Similarweb.com. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Category Leaders: Adult". "Web Category Analysis" section. pro.Similarweb.com. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
- ↑ "Category Leaders: Social Networks and Online Communities". "Web Category Analysis" section. pro.Similarweb.com. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
- ↑ "Category Leaders: Science and Education". "Web Category Analysis" section. pro.Similarweb.com. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Nwachukwu, Emeka (21 April 2019). "For African culture, Ogelle goes live". The Guardian Nigeria News. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ↑ Shaeffer, Warren (August 6, 2019). "Goodbye for now".