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.
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.
↑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.
↑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.
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