Video Sharing Web Sites

Video Sharing Web Sites

                    Video sharing refers to websites or software where users can distribute their video clips. Some services may charge, but the large majority of them offer free services. 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.

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.

Video Sharing Platform / White Label Providers

Platform and 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".

YouTube
YouTube is the biggest and best known, and it offers many features if you want to share your video and get it seen by a large audience.

Revver
Revver is a revenue sharing, as well as video sharing, web site. Ads embedded at the end of videos can earn producers real money.

Blip.tv
Use Blip.tv to start your own online television program.

Yahoo! Video
Yahoo! Video has all the features available on other large video-sharing sites. It also gives you the ability to upload a transcript for your video, which makes it easier to find in web searches.

My Space
If you have a My Space page, you have a forum for easily sharing your videos online.

Bolt
Bolt is aimed at the youth set, and offers tools for uploading and sharing videos, photos and games.

Drop Shots
A family focused site, Drop Shots allows users to easily upload and share videos and photos with family and friends.

Cast Post
Cast Post is a simple site for uploading and sharing your videos.

Clip Shack
Clip Shack offers all sorts of tools for tagging and sharing the videos you upload.

Daily Motion
Daily Motion offers a clean interface and all of the tools you expect from a quality video sharing site.

Flukiest
Flukiest is a social networking site that allows users to share videos, photos and blogs with friends and soon-to-be online friends.

Meta Cafe
A mix of user-generated and professionally produced videos, Meta Cafe lets you upload and share videos with a broad audience.

My Video Karaoke
This site is dedicated to sharing karaoke-type videos. Sing your favorite song, upload the video, and share it with other video karaoke viewers.

Our Media
Our Media calls itself the "global home for grassroots media." If you create videos about social issues, you can upload them here and share them with an interested audience.

Phanfare
Phanfare is a family-friendly site that offers unlimited storage of your photos and videos -- for a price.

Podesk
Podesk allows users to quickly create video "channels," so you can host your own content on your own web site.

Selfcast TV
Along with all the other features you should expect from a video sharing web site, Selfcast TV offers viewers the ability to download videos to portable devices like iPods and PSPs.

sevenload
sevenload is an international site for sharing photos and videos.

Shozu
Shozu is designed especially for sharing videos from cell phones

Vimeo
Vimeo put the "me" back in video.

Stickam
Not only can you upload videos, photos and music to Stickam, you can even broadcast yourself live over the site.

Vmix
Vmix lets you create a channel for your videos, and add your own branding to the video player.

ViddYou
ViddYou is a video-sharing site dedicated solely to video bloggers.

Sight Speed
What's Sight Speed? A short, personal web message, recorded for and posted on Sightspeed.com.

Ustream
Leave your webcam running, and you can create a 24/7 program of your life on Ustream.tv.