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.
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.
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:
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:
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:
The Similarweb listings cited in detail below, which include only the top 300 sites per category, were used with their internal "Search" feature to find all of the sites listed here and get more specific statistics at per-site analytics pages. Where individual websites' specific pages provided different statistics from the initial list, the former have been used here, as they appear to be updated more frequently, based on more criteria, and inclusive of global, all-industry totals. Some of these ranking statistics may still be a bit inaccurate, due to the number of sites that provided dedicated mobile apps, which may pull content from cloud servers with just IP addresses of cloud-service domain names, and so do not contribute to the web-traffic analysis of the specific video service provider domain name being tracked by Similarweb.
^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.
