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 since October 2020 and the most extensive catalog of online videos. There are some countries in the world placing restrictions on YouTube, instead having their own regional video-sharing websites in its place. Other popular video platforms include TikTok, Bilibili, and Twitch.
Notable examples Specifically dedicated video-hosting websites +Similarweb global rankings as of 4 February 2025NameLanguageTraffic rank56.comMandarin97,484AcFunMandarin8,706AparatPersian4,772BigoEnglish23,694BilibiliMultilingual / Mandarin22 (.com) / 609 (.tv)BitChuteEnglish6,262DailymotionMultilingual200DLive29,498DTube263,800FC2 Video216Gan Jing WorldMultilingual61,721GodtubeEnglish127,622iQIYIMandarin1,925NiconicoJapanese270NebulaEnglish26,008OdyseeMultilingual7,039RumbleEnglish1,222Rutube (formerly Pladform)Russian1,227,284SchoolTubeEnglish254,261TudouMandarin168,170TikTok / DouyinMultilingual / Mandarin15 / 96VimeoMultilingual1,092YoukuMandarin / Multilingual1,938 (.com) / 42,468 (.tv)YouTubeMultilingual2Despite 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.
+Predominantly live-streaming video platformsNameLanguageSimilarweb traffic rankKickMultilingual485Twitch36YouNow101,935
Websites dedicated to adult (pornographic) video +Similarweb global rankings 4 February 2025NameLanguageTraffic rankIn adult categoryEporner408ManyVids1,819202OnlyFans11615Pornhub161RedTube31644PornMD6,987696XNXX393XHamsterN/AN/AXVideos172YouPorn17527
+Live webcam modeling performance platformsNameLanguageTraffic rankIn adult categoryBongaCamsMultilingual63788Cam4766102CamSoda2,833298Chaturbate387LiveJasmin18730MyFreeCams1,581187Stripchat376
Broader websites which allow the hosting of videos +Similarweb global rankings as of 28 June 2023 Name LanguageTraffic rankFacebook / InstagramMultilingual3 / 4Flickr / SmugMug476 / 4,273Internet Archive179Myspace26,911NewgroundsEnglish3,453OdnoklassnikiRussian79PhotobucketMultilingual25,763Rediff837Tencent Video & QQ / WeTVMandarin / Multilingual93 / 6,636Because 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.TumblrMultilingual220VK25WeiboMandarin204Wikimedia CommonsMultilingual737 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.X / Twitter5 / 78Although 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.
Discontinued 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 Service ran from January 2005 to August 2012. The website has been repurposed to serve as Google's video search engine. HD share Service ran from July 2008 to 2011. Focused on HD videos. Acquired by United Social Networks LLC in 2011. iFilm Service ran from 1997 to 2008. Justin.tv Multilingual 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 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 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, to 2022. Openfilm Multilingual United States Service ran from June 2008 to August 2015. Periscope English Service ran from March 2015 to March 2021. Pixorial Service ran from 2009 to July 2014. Acquired by LifeLogger Technologies Corp. in 2016. Redlasso Service ran from June 2005 to July 2008. Site returned as a licensed provider for Fox TV content, then turned into a typical news portal site. Revver 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 United States Service ran from January 2015 to October 2016. Acquired by Verizon in October 2016. Vevo 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. Vine 25 languages Service ran from January 2013 to January 2017. Xtube Multilingual Canada Service 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:
Dailymotion Cloud VHX, which was absorbed by Vimeo in 2018
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:
Brightcove Dacast Dailymotion Cloud JW Player Kaltura Kewego MediaCore MetaCDN Microsoft Stream Ooyala Panopto Qumu Rumble ThePlatform Shift72 IBM Cloud Video ViaStreaming Viddler
Open source MediaGoblin (software) PeerTube Plumi (software to create video-sharing sites)
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: Animoto Clesh Dailymotion Blackbird Jaycut (no longer available for PC) Magisto Pixorial WeVideo Tribute
See also Comparison of video hosting services List of educational video websites Online video platform
Notes 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.
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