Comparison of video hosting services

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

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Service	Owner	Launched	Content license	Ads	# videos (millions)	Views per day (millions)	Main server location	Prohibits pornography	Multilingual	Ad revenue sharing	Video downloadable	Registration needed to upload
Aparat	Saba Idea	2011	own TOS[1]	Yes	>153[2]	>6[3]	Iran	Yes	Yes[4]	Yes	Yes	Yes
BitChute	Bit Chute Limited [5]	January 2017	own TOS[6]	Yes	Unknown	~0.8 [7]	United Kingdom	Yes	No	Yes [8]	some videos downloadable	Yes
Dailymotion	Canal+	March 15, 2005	own TOS[9]	Yes	>36.9[10]	~60	France	Yes	Yes	Yes	No[11]	Yes
Flickr	SmugMug	2004	own TOS[12]	Yes	>1.2[13]	Unknown	United States	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Globo Video	Grupo Globo	2002	Unknown	Yes	>7.76[14]	Unknown	Brazil	Yes	No	Unknown	No	Yes
Godtube	Salem Media Group	2006	Unknown	No	>0.114[15]	Unknown	United States	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Internet Archive	Internet Archive	May 10, 1996	own TOS[16]	No	>10.2[17]	Unknown		Unknown	Unknown	—N/a	Yes	Yes
MetaCDN	Unimelb Starfish Ventures	2012	TOS[18]	No	Unknown	Unknown	Australia	Yes	Yes	—N/a	Yes	Yes
Niconico	Kadokawa Dwango	December 12, 2006	own TOS[19]	Yes	>16.5[20]	Unknown	Japan	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes
Odysee	LBRY	September 2020	own TOS[21]	No	>10[22]	Unknown	United States	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
PeerTube	Framasoft	2018	7 licenses to choose from[23]	Optional[24]	>0.515[25]	>87[25]	France	Optional[26]	Yes	Yes[27]	Yes	Yes
QQ Video	Tencent		own TOS[28]	Yes	>0.864[29]	Unknown	China	Yes	Yes	Yes	Unknown
Rumble	Rumble Inc.	October 30, 2013	own TOS[30]	Yes (No for Rumble Premium users)	Unknown	Unknown	Canada United States	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Rutube	Gazprom-Media	2006	own TOS[31]	Yes	>5.82[32]	>1.1	Russian Federation	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tudou	Alibaba Group	April 15, 2005	own TOS[33]	Yes	>0.035[34]	55[35]	China	Yes	Unknown	Unknown	Yes, with official tool only
Vimeo	Vimeo Holdings	November 2004	own TOS,[36] optional Creative Commons	No	>12.3[37]	Unknown	United States	Yes	Yes[38]	Unknown	some videos downloadable [39]	Yes
Youku	Alibaba Group	2006	own TOS[40]	Yes	>0.665[41]	>150[42]	China	Yes	Yes[43]	Unknown	With official tool only
YouTube	Alphabet Google	February 15, 2005	own TOS,[44] optional Creative Commons	Yes (No for YouTube Premium users) [45]	>4,100[46]	7,000[47]	United States	Yes	Yes	Yes	Officially “Selected Videos Only”. However, third-party programs will download videos for free.[48]	Yes

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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)