Online video platform An online video platform (OVP), provided by a video hosting service, enables users to upload, convert, store and play back video content on the Internet, often via a structured, large-scale system that may generate revenue. Users will generally u ...

s allow users to upload, share videos or

live stream Livestreaming is streaming media simultaneously recorded and broadcast in real-time over the internet. It is often referred to simply as streaming. Non-live media such as video-on-demand, vlogs, and YouTube videos are technically streamed, but no ...

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 YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by ...

, 2 billion active until 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.

Notable examples

Specifically dedicated video hosting websites

: * ''Website predominantly hosts live streaming video.''

Websites dedicated to adult and pornographic video sharing

Larger websites which allow the hosting of videos

Discontinued

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: * Dailymotion Cloud *

VHX VHX was a digital distribution platform targeting independent filmmakers. The platform allows artists to sell content directly from their own website, providing design, social media integration, search engine optimization, and analytics tools. ...

, 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 Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single ID to any of several related, yet independent, software systems. True single sign-on allows the user to log in once and access services without re-enterin ...

services and a lack of the advertisements normally present on public sites. Among sites in this category are: *

Brightcove Brightcove, Inc. () is a Boston, Massachusetts–based software company that produces an online video platform. History Brightcove was founded in 2004 by Jeremy Allaire, who served as Executive Chairman until April 2016, and Bob Mason. The c ...

* DaCast * Dailymotion Cloud *

JW Player JW Player is a New York based company that has developed a video player software of the same name. The player, for embedding videos onto web pages, is used by news, video hosting companies, and for self- hosted web videos. The company has also cr ...

Kaltura Kaltura is a New York-based software company founded in 2006. Kaltura operates in four major markets: Cloud TV (that is, OTT) for operators and media companies, online video platform (OVP) offered mostly to media companies and brands looking ...

Kewego Kewego was 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. Kewego also operates its own branded video ...

* MediaCore *

MetaCDN MetaCDN is a Cloud computing, cloud-based content delivery network company that also offers video transcoding, streaming video and web accelerator services. Founded in 2011 from research out of the University of Melbourne, MetaCDN is backed by ...

* Microsoft Stream *

Ooyala Ooyala (pronounced "oo-YAH-la") was a privately owned company focusing on video content workflow management systems. It began in 2007 as a venture-backed, privately held company founded by brothers Bismarck Lepe and Belsasar Lepe, and their coll ...

* Panopto * Qumu *

Rumble.com Rumble is an online video platform, web hosting and cloud services business headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with its U.S. headquarters in Longboat Key, Florida. It was founded in 2013 by Chris Pavlovski, a Canadian technology entrepreneur. Ru ...

thePlatform thePlatform was a Seattle, Washington based online video publishing company that was acquired by Comcast in 2006. The company worked with digital media companies to manage and publish video and audio. It was absorbed into the newly formed Comca ...

* Shift72 *

Ustream IBM Watson Media (formerly Ustream and IBM Cloud Video) is an American virtual events platform company which is a division of IBM. Prior to IBM acquisition, it had more than 180 employees across San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Budapest offices. ...

ViaStreaming ViaStreaming Inc. is a Streaming Media Hosting Provider, as well as a Flash Media Server, SHOUTcast and Windows Media host. They are headquartered out of Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, where a Data Center is operated. The company was fo ...

Viddler Viddler is an online sales training platform with integrated tools for practice and evaluation. The Viddler service offers video-based instructions, optional coaching and allows the consumer to engage with course content through guided assignmen ...

Vidyard Vidyard is a software company headquartered in Kitchener, Ontario, that creates software to host and analyze video performance. The company was founded in May 2010. Beginnings Originally starting as a fourth-year design project at the University ...

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Open source

GNU MediaGoblin GNU MediaGoblin (also shortened to MediaGoblin or GMG) is a free, decentralized Web platform (server software) for hosting and sharing many forms of digital media. It strives to provide an extensible, federated, and freedom-respectful softw ...

(software) *

PeerTube PeerTube is a free and open-source, decentralized, ActivityPub federated video platform powered by WebTorrent, that uses peer-to-peer technology to reduce load on individual servers when viewing videos. Started in 2017 by a programmer known a ...

Plumi Plumi is a free software video sharing content management system developed based on the open-source content management system - Plone. Plumi allows users to create a video-sharing website by adding it to an existing Plone instance. The software ...

(software to create video sharing sites)

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 (known as Windows Live Movie Maker for the 2009 and 2011 releases) is a discontinued video editing software program by Microsoft. It was first included in Windows Me on September 14, 2000 and in Windows XP on October 25, 2001 ...

iMovie iMovie (known at times as iMovie HD) is a preinstalled video editing application developed by Apple Inc. for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS devices. It was originally released in 1999 as a Mac OS 8 application bundled with the first FireWire-enabled ...

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 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 Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows, and customized web-based presentations. Animoto is based in New York City with an office in San Francisco. History Anim ...

Clesh Clesh (clip load edit share) is a Cloud computing, cloud-based video editing platform designed for the consumers, prosumers, and online communities to integrate user-generated content. The core technology is based on FORscene which is geared toward ...

Dailymotion Dailymotion is a French video-sharing technology platform owned by Vivendi. North American launch partners included Vice Media, Bloomberg and Hearst Digital Media. It is among the earliest known platforms to support HD (720p) resolution video. ...

* Blackbird *

Jaycut JayCut was 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 Blackbird, later also added by YouTube through Adobe. Visitors edited ...

(No longer available for PC) *

Magisto Magisto is a technology company founded in 2009 to provide artificial intelligence (AI) technology for video editing. It produces an online video editor of the same name (both as a web application and a mobile app) for automated video editing an ...

Pixorial Pixorial was a cloud-based consumer photo sharing, video sharing and video editing platform. The company was formed in 2007 in Centennial, Colorado as a media conversion service. In 2013, Pixorial was chosen as one of two video storage companies ...

WeVideo WeVideo is an online, cloud-based video editing platform that works in web browsers and on mobile devices (Android and iOS). The company was originally founded in 2011 in Europe, their main headquarters is in Mountain View, California Mount ...

* Tribute (website)

References

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