Video sharing
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Video hosting service
Video hosting service
A video hosting service allows individuals to upload video clips to an Internet website. The video host will then store the video on its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view this video...

s
refers to websites or software where users can distribute their video clip
Video clip
Video clips are short clips of video, usually part of a longer recording. The term is also more loosely used to mean any short video less than the length of a traditional television program.- On the Internet :...

s. Other sites such as file hosting service
File hosting service
A file hosting service, online file storage provider, or cyberlocker is an Internet hosting service specifically designed to host user files. Typically they allow HTTP and FTP access. Related services are content-displaying hosting services A file hosting service, online file storage provider, or...

s image hosting service
Image hosting service
An image hosting service allows individuals to upload images to an Internet website. The image host will then store the image onto its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view that image....

s and social network service
Social network service
A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, who, for example, share interests and/or activities. A social network service consists of a representation of each user , his/her social...

s might support video sharing as an enhancement to their primary mission, but in general, they are not listed here. Many services have options for private sharing and other publication options. Video sharing services can be classified into several categories, among them: user generated video sharing websites, video sharing platform / white label providers and web based video editing. Please note that websites that are solely search engines and do not provide the hosting of their video content (such as Singingfish
Singingfish
Singingfish was an audio/video search engine that powered audio video search for Windows Media Player,, WindowsMedia.com, RealOne/RealPlayer,, Real Guide, AOL Search, Dogpile, Metacrawler and Singingfish.com, among others. Launched in 2000, it was one of the earliest and longest lived search...

) are not included in this article. Some services may charge, but the large majority of video sharing sites offer their service for free. Some websites offer commercialization features, such as partnership programs and the ability for users to offer pay-per-view for their videos.

User generated video sharing

User generated sites mostly offer free services whereby users can upload video clips and share it with the masses. Many sites place restrictions on the file size, duration, subject matter and format of the uploaded video file. Many sites do not allow inappropriate content though each site makes judgment calls on what qualifies as inappropriate content, usually via its Terms of Service information. Some sites provide access control to adult material where the user must verify that they are of adult age
Age of consent
While the phrase age of consent typically does not appear in legal statutes, when used in relation to sexual activity, the age of consent is the minimum age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts. The European Union calls it the legal age for sexual...

. Some sites screen all their content before it is published and others approve first and use community features to filter out inappropriate content "after-the-fact."

Notable examples

  • 56.com
    56.com
    56.com is one of the largest video sharing websites in China, where users can upload, view and share video clips.The domain 56.com attracted at least 3.2 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com survey....

     (Chinese)
  • Archive.org
  • Afreeca
    Afreeca
    Afreeca is a video streaming service based on P2P technology, owned and operated by Nowcom in South Korea.The site mainly retransmits TV channels, but also allows users to upload their own videos and shows. The head of Afreeca's parent company Nowcom, Mun Yong-sik, was arrested in 2008 for...

     (South Korean)
  • AniBOOM
    AniBOOM
    Aniboom is an online production studio that makes animation by reaching out to its database of over 9,500 creators who are located around the globe...

  • Blinkx
    Blinkx
    Blinkx is an Internet search engine for video and audio content, headquartered in San Francisco, California and the UK that allows searching and classification of audio files, video clips and streaming media such as Internet television and video on demand...

  • Blip.tv
    Blip.tv
    The website Blip.tv is a platform for web series. The company offers a for the "best in original web series" and also offers a dashboard for producers of original web series to distribute and monetize their productions....

  • BlogTV
    BlogTV
    blogTV is an online video service. blogTV began in June 2004, in Israel, and was a pioneer in the webcasting industry. Its goals were to supply anyone and everyone, with internet access, a way to express their talents & ideas to the world and to socially network with people face to face. In 2006...

  • Brainpop
    BrainPOP
    BrainPOP is a group of educational websites with hundreds of short animated movies for students in grades K-12 covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, arts and music, and health and technology. BrainPOP is used in more than 25% of U.S. schools and also offers...

  • Break.com
    Break.com
    Break.com is a humor website founded in 1998 that features comedy videos, flash games, and pictures among other material. The chief executive officer of Break is Steve Boss...

  • Buzznet
    Buzznet
    BuzzNet is a photo, journal, and video-sharing social media network, owned by Buzz Media. Like other social networking sites, Buzznet is a platform for members to share content based on their personal interests...

  • Comedy.com
  • Crackle
    Crackle
    Crackle is a digital network and studio, featuring commercially supported streaming video content in Flash Video format. It is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, and its content consists primarily of Sony's library of films and television shows...

  • Dailymotion
    Dailymotion
    Dailymotion is a video sharing service website, headquartered in the 18th arrondissement, Paris, France. According to Comscore, Dailymotion is the second largest video site in the world after YouTube....

  • EngageMedia
    EngageMedia
    EngageMedia is a not-for-profit video sharing website and free software project that began in March 2005. Launched in October 2006, the site focuses on video about social justice and environmental issues in Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific....

  • ExpoTV
    ExpoTV
    EXPO or ExpoTV is a consumer-oriented video platform run by EXPO Communications, Inc., a New York based company. The company's main website at www.expotv.com features video product reviews submitted by community members called “Videopinions” as well as 'how-to' video content and market research...

  • Funnyordie.com
  • Flickr
    Flickr
    Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...

  • Fotki
    Fotki
    Fotki is a digital photo sharing, video sharing and media social network website and web service suite; it is one of the world's largest social networking sites...

  • Gawkk
    Gawkk
    Gawkk.com is a community-based social video sharing website that specializes in allowing people to collect and share videos with their friends. Gawkk does not host videos directly like YouTube and Metacafe but instead lists embedded videos from any hosting site on the web in public channels...

  • Gaytube
    Gaytube
    Gay Tube is a free ad-supported pornographic video sharing website caters to gay surfers. It is ranked the 1800th most popular website on the Internet making it the most popular gay pornographic website.-Concept:...

  • Tangle.com (formerly Godtube)
  • Hulu
    Hulu
    Hulu is a website and over-the-top subscription service offering ad-supported on-demand streaming video of TV shows, movies, webisodes and other new media, trailers, clips, and behind-the-scenes footage from NBC, Fox, ABC, and Obstacle on October 20th 2011 Nickelodeon and CBS and many other...

  • HD share
    HD share
    HD share is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.HD share was launched on 1 July 2008.The site uses Flash Video to display content.HD share is the first website to exclusively host high definition videos....

     (focus on HD videos)
  • Lafango
  • Liveleak
    Liveleak
    LiveLeak is a video sharing website that lets users post and share videos. Liveleak places emphasis on current events, politics and reality-based footage such as war scenes from various parts of the world.The site went live on October 31, 2006...

  • Mail.ru
    Mail.ru
    Mail.ru is the largest free e-mail service of the Runet. The business was originally owned by Port.ru, a company founded in 1998 by Eugene Goland, Michael Zaitsev and Alexey Krivenkov as spin-off from DataArt. It received an initial investment of USD 1 million from the well-known investor James...

  • MaYoMo
    MaYoMo
    MaYoMo is a user-generated news site for mobile citizen journalism. MaYoMo.com, short for "Map Your Moments", was officially launched in October 2009...

  • Mefeedia
  • Megaupload
    Megaupload
    Megaupload is an online Hong Kong-based company established in 2005 for the use of uploading and downloading files. It includes a video browsing section in the site Megavideo, MegaLive, MegaPix and Megabox as well as a sister company called Megaporn which hosts user uploaded pornographic content...

  • Metacafe
    Metacafe
    Metacafe is a web site that specializes in short-form video entertainment in the categories of movies, video games, sports, music and TV.The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Tel Aviv...

  • Mevio
    Mevio
    Mevio Inc., is an American internet entertainment network, whose properties include PodShow+, PodShow Podcast Network, PodShowPDN, Podcast Alley, CastBlaster, the Podsafe Music Network and, BT PodShow...

  • Myspace
    Myspace
    Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....

  • MyVideo
    MyVideo
    MyVideo is a video hosting service website, based in Bucharest, Romania. It is available in German , Dutch and Romanian...

  • Nico Nico Douga
    Nico Nico Douga
    is a popular video sharing website in Japan managed by Niwango, a subsidiary of Dwango. Its nickname is "Niconico" or "Nico-dō", where "nikoniko" is the Japanese ideophone for smiling. Nico Nico Douga is the thirteenth most visited website in Japan...

     (Japanese)
  • OneWorldTV
    OneWorldTV
    OneWorldTV is a nonprofit internet video sharing and social networking site aiming to Climate Change, Human Rights, Social Justice Sustainable Development etc. OneWorldTV is part of OneWorld.net an international network of centres....

  • Openfilm
    Openfilm
    Openfilm is a website for finding and distributing independent film. Its Advisory Board includes members of the film industry, such as James Caan, Robert Duvall, Scott Caan and Mark Rydell, and independent filmmaker Alan Melikdjanian....

  • Ourmedia
    Ourmedia
    Ourmedia is a media archive, supported by the Internet Archive, which freely hosts any non-pornographic images, text, and video or audio clips, where this would not violate copyright laws. The website, which launched on March 21, 2005, was founded by Marc Canter and J.D. Lasica.The media archive,...

  • Photobucket
    Photobucket
    Photobucket is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website. It was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures. It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007....

  • Podblanc
  • Rayzz
    Rayzz
    Rayzz is a video sharing script for building social networking websites. This script includes features like photos, groups, audio, video etc.-Background:Rayzz Video Sharing Software was released in December 2006. A major upgrade was released in November 2007...

  • Redtube
    Redtube
    RedTube is a Web 2.0, video sharing, pornography site which in November 2009, held an Alexa ranking within the World's top 100 sites. However by June 2014 it had fallen out of the top 100...

  • Revver
    Revver
    Revver is a video sharing website that hosts user-generated content. Revver attaches advertising to user-submitted video clips and originally offered to share ad revenue with the video creators. Videos could be displayed, downloaded and shared across the web in either Apple QuickTime or FLV format...

  • Rambler Vision
    Rambler (portal)
    Rambler is a Russian search engine and one of the biggest Russian web portals. It is owned by the Rambler Media Group, which has belonged to Prof-Media since 2006....

     (Russian)
  • ReelTime.com
    ReelTime.com
    ReelTime.com is an Internet-based video on demand provider located in Seattle, Washington. It was founded as Reeltime Rentals Inc. in 2004 and went public in September 2006 at the same time that its online service was launched. The company's Directors are Michael Gersh and Beverly...

  • RuTube
    RuTube
    RuTube is a Russian online video sharing and transmitting service and is not associated with YouTube. As of 2008, it is visited by 400,000 people daily and plays over 40 million videos every month...

     (Russian)
  • Sapo Videos (Portuguese)
  • SchoolTube
    SchoolTube
    -Overview:SchoolTube is a video sharing website for K-12 education. It was created in response to large-scale access restriction of mainstream video-sharing sites in public schools in the United States. Launched in 2007, the company is based in St...

  • ScienceStage
    ScienceStage
    ScienceStage is a global, science-oriented multimedia portal that specializes in online video streaming, which is used to support communication between scientists, scholars, researchers in industry, and professionals. It is also used by academics and students as a virtual educational tool...

  • Sevenload
    Sevenload
    Sevenload is an online video and Web-2.0 media platform used for managing video and multimedia contents. Since its founding in April 2006, the platform emerged on international markets to become a Social Media Network for photos, videos and web TV content...

  • SmugMug
    Smugmug
    SmugMug is a paid digital photo sharing website.- History :Chris MacAskill and Don MacAskill started the original company to build a new video game-oriented web service in February 2002. By August 2002, though, their focus shifted...

  • Trilulilu
    Trilulilu
    Trilulilu is the biggest User-generated content website in Romania on which users can view, upload and share videos, images and audio files....

     (Romanian)
  • TroopTube
    TroopTube
    TroopTube was an online video site from the U.S. military via their organization Military OneSource, to help military families connect and keep in touch while miles apart. TroopTube allowed people to register as members of one of the branches of the armed forces, family, civilian Defense Department...

  • Tudou (Chinese)
  • Vbox7
    Vbox7
    VBOX7 is the largest video sharing entertainment website in Bulgaria and, as of September 2009, the most popular Bulgarian website behind the local version of Google. The website has been 100% owned by the Netinfo company since October 2007....

     (Bulgarian)
  • Veer
    Veer
    The Veer is an option running play often associated with option offenses in American football, made famous at the collegiate level by the Houston Cougars. It is currently run primarily on the high school level, with some usage at the collegiate and the professional level with varying degrees of...

  • Veoh
    Veoh
    Veoh is an Internet television company based in San Diego, California. It allows users to find and watch major studio content, independent productions and user-generated material. The company is a subsidiary of Israeli start-up Qlipso....

  • Viddler
    Viddler
    Viddler is an interactive online video platform for uploading, sharing, enhancing, tagging, commenting on, and forming groups around videos. Viddler no longer provides a free service for non-commercial users and now requires all users to choose one of the three paid plan options...

  • Videojug
    VideoJug
    Videojug is an instructional video website, It launched as a beta online in 2006. The website provides both professionally made videos produced internally, as well as some editorially selected quality videos produced by amateurs....

  • Vidoosh
    Vidoosh
    Vidoosh TV is an Iranian Video Sharing, based in Brussels, Belgium, Founded in November 2007, Vidoosh TV is the first Iranian video sharing website which is specialized in Iranian & Central Asian Cultures....

     (Iranian)
  • Vimeo
    Vimeo
    Vimeo is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. It was founded by Zach Klein and Jake Lodwick in November 2004...

  • Vuze
    Vuze
    Vuze is a BitTorrent client used to transfer files via the BitTorrent protocol. Vuze is written in Java, and uses the Azureus Engine. In addition to downloading data linked to by .torrent files, Azureus allows users to view, publish and share original DVD and HD quality video content...

  • Vzaar
    Vzaar
    vzaar is an online video for commerce site which launched in 2007. The site supports video streaming, embedding, sharing and video storage. Originally targeted at eBay sellers, the service now provides online video services to other commercial operations....

  • Wildscreen.tv
    Wildscreen.tv
    Wildscreen.tv is a free video sharing website and social-media network that allows users to upload self-generated video content. Wildscreen is designed as an alternative to Youtube in that independent film makers, musicians, and other artists can monetize the content they produce...

  • xtube
    Xtube
    XTube is a Netherlands-based pornographic video hosting service which allows users to share adult video content with others. Among other things, the terms of use of xtube.com state that users must be 18 years of age or older....

  • Yahoo! Video
    Yahoo! Video
    Yahoo! Video is a video sharing website on which users could upload and share videos. The service is owned and created by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Video began as an internet-wide video search engine and added the ability to upload and share video clips in June 2006...

     (no new uploads)
  • Youku (Chinese)
  • YouTube
    YouTube
    YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

  • Zoopy
    Zoopy
    Zoopy is an online and mobile social media community, hosting user generated videos, photos and audio. It launched into closed beta in late 2006 and moved into live beta with public access on 5 March 2007....


  • 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
    Akamai Technologies
    Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an Internet content delivery network headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel M. Lewin, and MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton...

     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 cats
    • Revver
      Revver
      Revver is a video sharing website that hosts user-generated content. Revver attaches advertising to user-submitted video clips and originally offered to share ad revenue with the video creators. Videos could be displayed, downloaded and shared across the web in either Apple QuickTime or FLV format...

    • HD share
      HD share
      HD share is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.HD share was launched on 1 July 2008.The site uses Flash Video to display content.HD share is the first website to exclusively host high definition videos....


    Enterprise video hosting providers

    Enterprise video hosting sites are aimed at 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
    Single sign-on
    Single sign-on is a property of access control of multiple related, but independent software systems. With this property a user logs in once and gains access to all systems without being prompted to log in again at each of them...

     services and a lack of the advertisements normally present on public sites. Among sites in this category are:
    • Brightcove
      Brightcove
      Brightcove is a Cambridge, MA based company that produces an Online Video Platform .- History :Brightcove was founded in 2004 by Jeremy Allaire, who now serves as CEO. In March 2006, Brightcove acquired Seattle-based Metastories, makers of StoryMaker, a publishing tool for video, audio, images, and...

    • Kewego
      Kewego
      Kewego is a video platform provider website. The company is based in Paris, France. In early 2011, KIT digital purchased Kewego. Clients include brands such as Orange, Ebay, Lycos, M6, and L'Equipe...

    • Ooyala
      Ooyala
      Ooyala is a venture-backed, privately held company that provides online video technology products and services. The company was founded in 2007 by brothers Bismarck Lepe and Belsasar Lepe, and their colleague and friend from Google, Sean Knapp...

    • Viddler
      Viddler
      Viddler is an interactive online video platform for uploading, sharing, enhancing, tagging, commenting on, and forming groups around videos. Viddler no longer provides a free service for non-commercial users and now requires all users to choose one of the three paid plan options...

    • vzaar
      Vzaar
      vzaar is an online video for commerce site which launched in 2007. The site supports video streaming, embedding, sharing and video storage. Originally targeted at eBay sellers, the service now provides online video services to other commercial operations....


    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
    Windows Movie Maker
    Windows Movie Maker is a video creating/editing software application, included in Microsoft Windows Me, XP, and Vista. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. New effects and transitions can be made and existing ones can be...

    , iMovie
    IMovie
    iMovie is a proprietary video editing software application which allows Mac, iPod Touch 4th generation, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPad 2 users to edit their own home movies. It was originally released by Apple in 1999 as a Mac OS 8 application bundled with the first FireWire-enabled consumer Apple...

     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 websites also offer downloadable editors but they will not be listed here due to the number of pre-existing video editors.

    Websites in this category include:
    • Clesh
      Clesh
      Clesh is a cloud-based video editing platform designed for the consumers, prosumers, and online communities to integrate user generated content...

    • FORscene
      FORscene
      FORscene is an integrated internet video platform, video editing software, covering non linear editing and publishing for broadcast, web and mobile....

    • Jaycut
      Jaycut
      JayCut is an internet based video editing software tool that along with competitors Jumpcut.com, Motionbox and Eyespot were the first to offer this Web 2.0 feature pioneered by FORscene, later also added by YouTube through Adobe...

    • YouTube
      YouTube
      YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....


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