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.

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

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	English	United States	Service ran from January 2005 to August 2012. The website has been repurposed to serve as Google's video search engine.
HD share	English	United States	Service ran from July 2008 to 2011. Focused on HD videos. Acquired by United Social Networks LLC in 2011.
Justin.tv	Multilingual	United States	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	Multilingual	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	United States	Service ran from January 2016 to July 2020.
MyVideo	German	Romania →  Germany	Service ran from 2006 to April 2016.
MUZU.TV	English	Ireland	Service ran from July 2008 to October 2015. Music videos only.
Openfilm	Multilingual	United States	Service ran from June 2008 to August 2015.
Periscope	English	United States	Service ran from March 2015 to March 2021.
Pixorial	English	United States	Service ran from 2009 to July 2014. Acquired by LifeLogger Technologies Corp. in 2016.
Revver	English	United States	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. US DOD Military OneSource communications platform.
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
Vessel	English	United States	Service ran from January 2015 to October 2016. Acquired by Verizon in October 2016.
Vevo	English	United States	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.[2]
Vine	25 languages	United States	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:

• 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:

Open source

• GNU MediaGoblin (software)
• PeerTube
• Plumi (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, iMovie 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
• Clesh
• Dailymotion
• Blackbird
• Jaycut (No longer available for PC)
• Magisto
• Pixorial
• WeVideo
• Tribute (website)