Comparison of video hosting services

Basic general information about the hosts: creator/company, license/price etc.

Service	Owner	Launched	Content license	Ads	# videos (millions)	Views per day (millions)	Main server location	Prohibits pornography	Multilingual	Ad revenue sharing	Video download- able	Registration needed to upload
Aparat	Saba Idea	2011	own TOS	Yes	>153[1]	>6[2]	Iran	Yes	Yes[3]	Yes	Yes	Yes
BitChute	Bit Chute Limited [4]	2017	own TOS	No	Un­known	~0.8 [5]	United Kingdom	Yes	No	Yes [6]	some videos downloadable	No
Dailymotion	Vivendi	March 15, 2005	own TOS	Yes	>36.9[7]	~60	France	Yes	Yes	Yes	No[8]	Yes
EngageMedia	EngageMedia	March 2005	Creative Commons	No	>0.008	Un­known	Germany	Yes	Yes	—	Yes	Yes
Flickr	SmugMug	2004	own TOS	Yes	>1.2[9]	Un­known	United States	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Globo Video	Grupo Globo	2002	Un­known	Yes	>7.76[10]	Un­known	Brazil	Yes	No	Un­known	No	Yes
Godtube	Salem Media Group	2006	Un­known	No	>0.114[11]	Un­known	United States	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Internet Archive	Internet Archive	1996	own TOS	No	>10.2[12]	Un­known	United States	Un­known	Un­known	—	Yes	Yes
MetaCDN	Unimelb Starfish Ventures	2012	TOS	No	Un­known	Un­known	Australia	Yes	Yes	—	Yes	Yes
Niconico	Kadokawa Dwango	December 12, 2006	own TOS	Yes	>16.5[13]	Un­known	Japan	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Odysee	LBRY	2015	own TOS	Yes	>10[14]	Un­known	United States	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PeerTube	Framasoft	2018	7 licenses to choose from[15]	Optional[16]	>0.515[17]	>87[17]	France	Optional[18]	Yes	Yes[19]	Yes	Yes
QQ Video	Tencent		own TOS	Yes	>0.864[20]	Un­known	China	Yes	Yes	Yes	Un­known
Rumble	Rumble Inc.	2013	own TOS	Yes	Un­known	Un­known	Canada	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Rutube	Gazprom-Media	2006	own TOS	Yes	>5.82[21]	>1.1	Russian Federation	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tudou	Alibaba Group	April 15, 2005	own TOS	Yes	>0.035[22]	55[23]	China	Yes	Un­known	Un­known	Yes, with official tool only
Vimeo	Vimeo Holdings	November 2004	own TOS, optional Creative Commons	No	>12.3[24]	Un­known	United States	Yes	Yes[25]	Un­known	some videos downloadable [26]	Yes
Youku	Alibaba Group	2006	own TOS	Yes	>0.665[27]	>150[28]	China	Yes	Yes[29]	Un­known	With official tool only
YouTube	Alphabet	February 15, 2005	own TOS, optional Creative Commons	Yes (No for YouTube Premium users)[30]	>4,100[31]	7,000[32]	United States	Yes	Yes	Yes	Officially “Selected Videos Only”. However, third-party programs will download videos for free.[33]	Yes

All services support the following input file formats:

• Moving Picture Experts Group (.MPG/MPEG-1)
• QuickTime File Format (.MOV)
• Windows Media Video (.WMV)
• Audio Video Interleave (.AVI)
• H.264 MPEG-4/AVC (.MP4)

Unless otherwise indicated, they also support the following input file formats:

• Matroska Multimedia Container (.MKV)
• Theora (.OGV)
• 3rd Generation Partnership Project (.3GP)

Specifically dedicated video hosting websites

* Website predominantly hosts live streaming video.