Video hosting

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen, who were former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google itself. In January 2024, YouTube had reached more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively consumed more than one billion hours of video content every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately

online repository of free-use image, audio, and other media files

TikTok, known in mainland China, Macau, and Hong Kong as Douyin (), is a social media and short-form online video platform. It hosts user-submitted videos, which range in duration from three seconds to 60 minutes. It can be accessed through a mobile app or through its website.

Flickr ( ) is an image and video hosting service, as well as an online community, founded in Canada and headquartered in the United States. It was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and was for a time a common way for amateur and professional photographers to host high-resolution photos. Flickr was owned by Yahoo! from 2005 and has been owned by SmugMug since 2018.

American live-streaming platform

Vimeo ( ) is an American video hosting, sharing, and services provider founded in 2004 and headquartered in New York City. Vimeo focuses on the delivery of high-definition video across a range of devices and operates on a software as a service (SaaS) business model. The platform provides tools for video creation, editing, and broadcasting along with enterprise software solutions and the means for video professionals to connect with clients and other professionals. the site has 260 million users, with around 1.6 million subscribers to its services.

OnlyFans is an Internet content paid subscription service based in London, England. The service is widely known for its popularity with pornographers, although it also hosts other content creators including athletes, musicians, and comedians.

xHamster is a pornographic video sharing and streaming website, based in Limassol, Cyprus. It was founded by Oleg Netepenko and Dmitri Gusev in 2007. xHamster serves user-submitted pornographic videos, webcam models, pornographic photographs, and erotic literature, and incorporates social networking features. , it is the 29th-most-visited website in the world, and the second-most-visited adult website, after Pornhub.

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distribution of television content via the public Internet

YouPorn is a free pornographic video-sharing website owned by Aylo that launched in August 2006.

XNXX is a Czech-French pornographic video sharing and viewing website. It was founded in 1997 in Paris, with servers and offices in Montreal, Tokyo and Newark. It is owned by WGCZ Holding, the same company that runs XVideos. , it is the 44th-most-visited website in the world and the fourth most-visited pornography website after Pornhub, xHamster, and XVideos.

layer in the Internet ecosystem addressing bottlenecks

RedTube is a pornographic video-sharing site, which in September 2009 held an Alexa ranking within the world's top 100 sites. It is one of several pornographic websites owned by Aylo. In June 2010 it had fallen out of the top 100, but it made a return in mid-2012. As of mid September 2020 its Alexa ranking was 520. Its popularity has been ascribed to its non-sexual name, which is a reference to the non-pornographic video sharing website YouTube. The website is based in Houston, Texas, and has servers in San Francisco, New Orleans and Montreal.

Bilibili (stylized in all lowercase), nicknamed B Site (), is a Chinese online video sharing website based in Shanghai where users can submit, view, and add overlaid commentary on videos.

type of a video-sharing website

Odysee is an American decentralized video hosting platform, built on the LBRY blockchain. It positions itself as an alternative to mainstream services like YouTube, but with a focus on freedom of speech and decentralization.

mobile live video streaming application

BitChute is an alt-tech video hosting service launched by Ray Vahey in January 2017. It describes itself as offering freedom of speech, while the service is known for hosting far-right individuals, conspiracy theorists, and hate speech. Some creators who use BitChute have been banned from YouTube; some others crosspost content to both platforms or post more extreme content only to BitChute. Before its deprecation, BitChute claimed to use peer-to-peer WebTorrent technology for video distribution, though this was disputed.

iQIYI (, pronounced in English as ), formerly Qiyi (), is a Chinese subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Baidu. Headquartered in Beijing, iQIYI primarily produces and distributes films and television series.

, known before 2012 as , is a Japanese video sharing service based in Tokyo, Japan. "Niconico" or "nikoniko" is the Japanese ideophone for smiling. As of 2021, Niconico is the 34th most-visited website in Japan, according to Alexa Internet.

video streaming service

PeerTube is a free and open-source, decentralized, ActivityPub federated video platform. It can use peer-to-peer technology to reduce load on individual servers when videos get popular.

Rutube (stylized as RUTUBE) is a Russian video platform that includes a library of licensed content, including movies, TV series, cartoons, and live broadcasts. It also hosts blogs, podcasts, video game streams, and educational content. It is cited as Russia's alternative to YouTube.

category or genre of pornography

Chaturbate (sometimes referred to as "CB") is a pornographic website providing live-streamed webcam performances by individual webcam models and couples, typically featuring nudity and sexual activity ranging from striptease and erotic talk to more explicit sexual acts such as masturbation with sex toys.

online video sharing, live streaming, and cloud services platform

Likee (; formerly LIKE) is a short-video creation and sharing app, available for iOS and Android operating systems. It is owned by Singaporean tech firm Likeme Pte. Ltd., whose parent company is JOYY Inc. The founder of Likee is Jason Hu, entrepreneur from Singapore, who previously worked for JOYY.

LiveJasmin (company name: JWS Americas S.à r.l.) is an adult website that provides live streaming and related services, typically featuring nudity and sexual activity ranging from striptease and erotic talk to masturbation with sex toys and full sexual intercourse.

video on demand service operated by Meta Platforms

Stripchat is an adult website and social network featuring free live-streamed webcam performances, often including nudity and sexual activity, through traditional, virtual reality, and mobile broadcasts.

video streaming platform

Aparat (, '''') is an Iranian video-sharing and social media platform established in 2011 by Saba Idea. Headquartered in Tehran, Iran, it has become the most visited video-sharing service in Iran, offering a diverse range of content across various genres, including entertainment, education, and news. It user base exceeds 60 million monthly users. The platform also recorded 21 million daily pageviews, totaling approximately 7.6 billion annually. Aparat was selected as the best film website in 2011.

thumb|right|P2PTV overlay network serving three video streams. P2PTV refers to peer-to-peer (P2P) software applications designed to redistribute video streams in real time on a P2P network; the distributed video streams are typically TV channels from all over the world but may also come from other sources. The draw to these applications is significant because they have the potential to make any TV channel globally available by any individual feeding the stream into the network where each peer joining to watch the video is a relay to other peer viewers, allowing a scalable distribution among a

Kaltura, Inc. is a New York-based software company founded in 2006. It operates in several major markets: webinars and virtual events, enterprise video content management and online video platform (OVP), educational technology (virtual classroom), and Cloud TV software; and offers products such as a video portal, an LMS and CMS (course management system) extension, a virtual event and webinar platform, and a TV streaming app.

Ipernity is a non-commercial photo sharing community which is financed exclusively by membership dues without any intention of making a profit. By means of the Ipernity Members Association (IMA), the community operates its own website for the protected private exchange of digital content such as photos, videos, audio files and blogs, as well as for the worldwide publication of selected content.

AcFun (), also known as A Site (A, as opposed to bilibili) for short, is a Chinese video sharing website. The name "AcFun" is an abbreviation of "Anime, Comics and Fun". The website is initially orientated as an ACGN (Animation, Comic, Game and Novel) community and is a video sharing web platform. AC Musume and TD Musume are the representative icons of AcFun.

UpScrolled is an Australian social media platform for microblogging and short-form online video sharing that was launched in June 2025 by Recursive Methods Pty Ltd. It was founded by Issam Hijazi.

WebTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming torrent client written in JavaScript that enables BitTorrent functionality directly within web browsers. Created by Feross Aboukhadijeh, the developer behind YouTube Instant, WebTorrent implements the BitTorrent protocol using WebRTC for peer-to-peer data transfer, allowing users to download and stream torrents without requiring traditional torrent client software.

DLive is an American video live streaming service that was founded in 2017. It was purchased by BitTorrent, Inc. in 2019. Due to the site's lax enforcement of prohibited content guidelines, DLive has become a popular alternative to YouTube and Twitch among white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, neo-Nazis, neo-fascists, and extremists. The site is also used by gamers as an alternative to Twitch.

Alugha with headquarters in Mannheim, Germany is Germany's only open video portal and the first multilingual cloud-based video hosting platform on which online videos can be converted into multilingual formats.

FetLife is a social networking website that serves people interested in BDSM, fetishism, and kink. It distinguishes itself from competitors by emphasizing itself as a social network rather than a dating site.

DouYu () is a Chinese video live streaming service. The site is the largest of its kind in China with 163.6 million monthly active users in 2019, more than the 140 million monthly active users of Twitch. In July 2019, DouYu International Holdings Ltd raised $21 million through U.S. initial public offering (IPO) and listed itself on the Nasdaq with the stock symbol DOYU. It was the largest IPO of any Chinese company on Wall Street in 2019.

LBRY (pronounced "library") is a blockchain-based file-sharing and payment network that is primarily used for social networks and video platforms.

YinYueTai (), is a music video sharing website in China. Launched in 2009, the site became China's most visited music video website by 2015. As of December 2019, YinYueTai is rumored to have been closed down.

video distributed over the World Wide Web

Chinese live streaming service

Japanese blogging host

Clips4Sale (C4S) is an adult video content selling website and is known for fetish content. It launched in 2003. Clips4Sale is the largest clip site on the internet with over 8 million clips and 105,000 independent content producers on its platform. It is based in the United States, with an overseas branch registered in Cyprus for EU/EEA operations.

Godtube is an online video platform which provides Christian video content. It is owned by Salem Web Network, the internet division of Salem Media Group. Godtube includes music videos, comedy, children, animals, sports, news and inspirational clips.

ManyVids is a Canadian adult entertainment video hosting, live streaming, and e-commerce company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Azubu was a live streaming esports website. In May 2017, it shut down and was succeeded by Smashcast.

American video-sharing and social networking service

American website where people can charge to create personalized messages to fans

iFilm is a discontinued U.S.-based video-sharing website on which users could upload, share and view videos. It was founded by filmmaker Raphael Raphael in 1997. It was later acquired by iFilm.net, a popular online interactive film and media archive, originally specializing in independent films. Ifilm.net was founded in 1998 by new media entrepreneurs Roger Raderman, J. Patrick Forden, and Luke McDonough. Percepticon Corporation engineered and built the website and content publishing system. Greg Deocampo, the founding CTO, developed the core engineering team, encoding network, presentation en

PPTV () is a Chinese video streaming website. Its predecessor, PPLive, was peer-to-peer streaming video freeware created at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, Hubei Province. The group of companies that runs the website was headed by Cayman Islands-incorporated offshore company PPLive Corporation. However, the actual operations were mainly carried out by Shanghai SynaCast Media Tech Co., Ltd. ().

Chinese live streaming video platform

Russian streaming service

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