Do you like video sharing social sites? I do. One of my favorites is -of course- Youtube. Im addicted to the thing. One day I thought to myself,”I wonder what else is out there?”.
I put this article together because my ceriousity allowed me to ask this question and research the answer. I looked all around the internet in search of good video sharing social sites and this is what I found. I hope you enjoy them as I have.
VIDEO SHARING SOCIAL SITES
1. YouTube.com - YouTube, LLC is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. In November 2006, YouTube was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion dollars, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by members of the public, although media organizations including CBS and the BBC offer some of their material via the site.
2. Vimeo- is a video-centric social network site (owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp) which launched in November 2004. The site supports embedding, sharing, video storage, and allows user-commenting on each video page. Users must register to upload content. Registered users may also create a profile and upload small user pictures as their avatars, comment and “like” videos.
3. AniBOOM- is a cross-media animation website offering a collection of short animations and cartoon, animation tools (like ShapeShifter), and competitions. Registered users can submit animated movies, which are then categorized according to type. Users are able to evaluate videos by giving them a number of “bombs” and by posting comments. AniBOOM also offers option to email the video to a friend, to post to a blog or social network profile page, or add to favorites. Users are given “BoomZones”, or profile pages, in which to showcase their videos.
4. Atom.com- (formerly AtomFilms) is an award-winning broadband entertainment network offering original short subject films, animations, and series by independent creators. The company was founded in 1998 in Seattle by Mika Salmi.
5. FameCast- is a social network website serving both bands seeking increased exposure and music fans looking for new independent artists. Once per month the site hosts a contest in which the community votes for their favorite artists in six different music genres. The winners of each category are featured in SPIN magazine and advance to the next contest level and have a chance to win cash. Headquarters in Austin, Texas, U.S. (2006)
6. LiveLeak- is a video sharing website that lets users post and share videos. Liveleak places emphasis on current events, politics and reality-based footage such as war scenes from various parts of the world. The site went live on 31 October 2006. Founded by the team responsible for Ogrish.com, it aims to take reality footage, politics, and world events and combine them with the power of citizen journalism. The site came to prominence in 2007 following the unauthorized filming and leaking of the execution of Saddam Hussein, and was referred to by White House Press Secretary Tony Snow and then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
7. Tudou- [Translated: English] (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: T?dòu W?ng) is one of the largest video sharing websites in China, where users can upload, view and share video clips. Tudou went live on April 15, 2005 and by September 2007, served over 55 million videos each day.
8. Flickr Video- is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. It was one of the earliest Web 2.0 applications. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. Its popularity has been fueled by its organization tools, which allow photos to be tagged and browsed by folksonomic means. As of November 2008[update], it claims to host more than 3 billion images. Launched on February 2004.
9. MegaVideo- is a video sharing website based in Hong Kong run by the creators of Megaupload. According to Alexa Internet, it is one of the 100 most visited websites in the world. The website officially claims to aim replacing YouTube as the leader in online video. Unlike YouTube, MegaVideo has a slow moderating action which allows for copyrighted material to be online for long periods.
10. Photobucket- is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website. It was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures. It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007.
11. Twango is an online media sharing site that supports multiple file types such as photos, video, audio, and documents. It provides users a means of repurposing their media, including sharing, editing, organizing and categorizing. In addition, Twango saves all the original media and its metadata (this includes, but is not limited to, IPTC and Exif). Non-members are free to browse the site, while members can upload media of their own. Sign up for a basic account is free, and provides 250 megabytes of upload bandwidth a month. Twango was acquired by Nokia in July 2007 and has since been rebranded as the Share on Ovi service.
12. BGVIP.TV [Translated: English]- is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. The website contains a variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos.
13. Big Think- launched in January 2008, is a site that serves as a public forum for users to interact with public intellectuals in numerous fields. Created by Peter Hopkins andVictoria Brown.
14. GodTube is a free video sharing website, similar to YouTube, but which specializes in Christian-themed videos. In particular, GodTube has been compared to Conservapedia, a Christian conservative encyclopedia opposed to Wikipedia; MyChurch, a Christian version of MySpace; and Muxlim, a Muslim social networking site.
15. Metacafe- is a community based video sharing web site, that specializes in short-form original entertainment, where users upload, view and share video clips. Key people Erick Hachenburg, CEO
Eyal Hertzog, Founder and CCO Michael Strambi, CFO Jack Rotherham, SVP of Strategic Sales and Partnerships David Rice, VP of Product Yaron Finkel, VP of R&D Scott Bushman and VP of Business Development.
16. Vbox7.com [Translated: English]- is the largest video sharing entertainment website in Bulgaria. It is among the 5 most visited Bulgarian websites.
17. Soapbox- on MSN Video is a service from Microsoft via its MSN portal. It is similar to YouTube in that it is an internet video-sharing service. As of December 17, 2006, it was an invitation-only beta. In February 2007 it entered public beta. In order to be able to upload content, users are required to sign up for a Windows Live ID. Those who already have a Windows Live ID are able to use that. MSN Soapbox has been compared to Youtube. A major difference between Youtube and MSN Soapbox is that Soapbox states in its privacy policy that use of copyrighted material is not allowed and will be deleted. Youtube has that policy, but copyrighted material is still present on the site, because Youtube leaves the responsibility of finding copyrighted material in the hands of the copyright holder.
18. Rambler Vision [Translated: English]- is part of a Russian search engine and one of the biggest Russian web portals. It is owned by the Rambler Media Group, which belongs to Prof-Media since 2006.
19. Veoh- is a San Diego, California-based company which runs an Internet Television service allowing users to find and watch major studio content, independent productions and user-generated material. Owned by Dmitry Shapiro, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer.
20. Blinkx (London AIM:BLNX.L)- is an Internet search engine for video and audio content, based in San Francisco, that allows searching and classification of audio files, video clips and streaming media. Blinkx’s video search engine differs by using speech recognition to listen to the audio component of the video content, and then uses both the phonetic and text transcripts to match content with search queries. blinkx also indexes and searches podcasts and video blogs. It claims to be the largest deep indexed Video search engine with 32 million hours indexed and agreements with over 420 content companies.
21. blip.tv is a video sharing service designed for creators of user-generated content. blip.tv provides content creators with free hosting, support for a variety of video formats, distribution using technologies like RSS and an opt-in advertising program with a 50/50 revenue share. blip.tv focuses on “episodic content” or “shows,” rather than viral video.
22. Google Video- is a free video sharing website and also a video service from Google that allows anyone to upload video clips to Google’s web servers as well as make their own media available free of charge; some videos are also offered for sale through the Google Video Store.
23. MySpace Video- is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. The key people are Tom Anderson, President and Chris DeWolfe, CEO.
24. Viddler- is an online video hosting service founded in 2006. It was noted for the introduction of inline commenting and tag annotations in online video, as well as on-the-fly video recording. Viddler gained popularity in 2007 when popular video bloggers such as Gary Vaynerchuk, Sarah Austin and Justine Ezarik began using Viddler’s technology to publish their shows.
25. MyToons- a free online animation community that supports content sharing and social networking, was the first online animation community for viewing community animation content in high-definition.
26. RuTube [Translated: English]- is a Russian online video sharing and transmitting service. As of 2008, it is visited by 400,000 people daily and plays over 40 million videos every month. According to TNS Gallup Media, over 4 million unique users visit it every month.
27. Break.com (formerly Big-boys.com)- is a humor website founded in 1998 that features comedy videos, flash games, and pictures among other material. The chief executive officer of Break is Keith Richman. The web site’s target audience is men 18-35.
28. Hulu- is a website that offers ad-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, FOX and many other networks and studios. Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States.
29. MyVideo [Translated: English]- is a video hosting service website, based in Bucharest, Romania. It is available in German (myvideo.de, myvideo.ch and myvideo.at), Dutch (myvideo.nl and myvideo.be) and Romanian (myvideo.ro). According to Alexa Internet, the German domain name is one of the 1000 most visited websites on the Internet.
30. SAPO [Translated: English]- was created on September 4, 1995 at the University of Aveiro, by seven members of the Computer Science Center of the University. The name appeared from the acronym of the service, S.A.P. (Servidor de Apontadores Portugueses), in which it was easy to get to SAPO.
31. Buzznet- is a photo, journal, and video-sharing social media network. Like other social networking sites, Buzznet is a place for members to share content based on their personal interests. Unlike classic social networks, which focus primarily on messaging and profile pages, Buzznet members participate in communities that are created around ideas, events and interests; most predominantly, music, celebrities and the media.
32. Crackle- is a multi-platform video entertainment network and studio, administrated by Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and formerly known as Grouper.
33. imeem- is a social media service where users interact with each other by watching, posting, and sharing content of all digital media types, including blogs, photos, audio, and video. The company was founded by Dalton Caldwell (ex-VA Linux) and Jan Jannink (formerly of Napster) and many of the core engineers came from the original Napster file sharing service.
34. Dailymotion- is a video hosting service website, based in Paris, France. Its domain name was registered one month after YouTube (but the site opened one month earlier) with gandi.net, a French internet domain name provider, and at least one name server is based in France with the .fr name extension.
35. JibJab- is a digital entertainment studio based in Los Angeles, California. Founded in September 1999 by Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, the company achieved international acclaim during the 2004 US presidential election when their video of George W. Bush and John Kerry singing ‘This Land is Your Land’ became one of the biggest viral video hits in history.
36. Kewego- is a video platform provider website. The company is based in Paris, France. Kewego operates over 160 video platforms for a range of clients in sectors such as TV Broadcast, Newspaper and Magazine publishing and Web Sites. Clients include well-known brands such as Orange, Ebay, Lycos, M6, and L’Equipe. Kewego also operates its own branded video sharing sites such as www.mykewego.com, www.mykewego.co.uk, www.mykewego.fr and so on.
37. OneWorldTV- is a nonprofit internet video sharing and social networking site, a part of internet portal Oneworld.net.
38. Ourmedia is a media archive, supported by the Internet Archive, which freely hosts any images, text, and video or audio clips which do not violate copyright laws and do not include pornography. The website, which launched on March 21, 2005, was founded by Marc Canter and J.D. Lasica.
39. Pandora TV- is a video sharing website that hosts user-generated content. Founded in October 2004, Pandora TV is the first video sharing website in the world to attach advertisment to user-submitted video clips and to provide unlimited storage space for users to upload. As of January 2008, the site was visited by 20 million monthly unique visitors. It has over 2.5 million video inventory and 2.5 billion monthly pageviews.
40. Sevenload- is an online Web-2.0 media platform used for managing multimedia contents. sevenload allows users to upload their video and photo contents onto the site and then tag them, put them in albums and share them with other users, and is similar to video sharing sits such as Metacafe and Youtube and photo sharing sites such as Flickr. sevenload is currently available in eight languages.