List of online video platforms

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. There are some countries in the world placing restrictions on YouTube, instead having their own regional video-sharing websites in its place. Other popular video platforms include TikTok, Bilibili, and Twitch.

Notable examples

Specifically dedicated video-hosting websites

Name	Language	Similarweb traffic rank
Kick	Multilingual	485
Twitch	Multilingual	36
YouNow	Multilingual	101,935

Websites dedicated to adult (pornographic) video

Name	Language	Traffic rank	In adult category
BongaCams	Multilingual	637	88
Cam4	Multilingual	766	102
CamSoda	Multilingual	2,833	298
Chaturbate	Multilingual	38	7
LiveJasmin	Multilingual	187	30
MyFreeCams	Multilingual	1,581	187
Stripchat	Multilingual	37	6

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 or have included:

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

Web-based video editing

Web-based video-editing sites generally offer a user-generated video sharing website in addition to some form of editing application. Some of these apps 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 client-side desktop applications that run outside of a web page. Today, most of these apps are AJAX-based