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Video Sharing

Video sharing platforms or video sharing services allow private users to upload, view and share video clips. In general, they are stored on the hosting website’s server free of charge. On most pages, users are able to comment on or rank the clips uploaded by others. Criteria required for this business model are the possibility to upload user generated content (UGC) videos and to share them publicly. The focus of the platform has to be on video sharing, which means that websites offering additional services (such as games or picture sharing) do not fall under the business model definition. Neither are sub domains of universal search services or social communities included in this category. Moreover, Web pages specialized on certain categories (e.g. pet videos, explain or teach videos) are excepted from this business model.



Rank Company Name Founders Online Since Country Comments
1

spike.com

1999-02-01
2

ifilm.com

Rodger Raderman, Luke McDonough 1999-09-01
3

Heavy.com

Simon, Assaad; David Carson 2001-06-01
4

stupidvideos.com

Greg Morrow 2001-09-26
5

vmix.com

Greg Kostello 2002-11-01
6

pixpo.com

Colin How 2003-06-01
7

zippyvideos.com

2004-05-01
8

vimeo.com

Jakob Lodwick 2004-11-15
9

metacafe.com

Arik Czerniak 2004-11-22
10

putfile.com

Gordon Page 2004-12-01
11

sharkle.com

Trevor Wright 2005-01-03
12

videodumper.com

2005-02-01
13

youtube.com

Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim 2005-02-15
14

dailymotion.com

Benjamin Bejbaum and Didier Rappaport 2005-03-15
15

ourmedia.org

JD Lasica 2005-03-23
16

videocodezone.com

2005-04-24
17

Vobbo

2005-04-29
18

gofish.com

Michael Downing 2005-05-01
19

Blip.tv

Mike Hudack, Dina Kaplan, Justin Day, Jared Klett, Charles Hope 2005-05-01
20

Veoh

Dmitry Shapiro 2005-06-01
21

toptvbytes.com

2005-06-01
22

clipshack.com

Cynthia Francis 2005-06-01
23

uume.com

Fred Lei Rao 2005-06-01
24

Vidilife

Brad Greenspan 2005-06-19
25

Videoegg

David Lerman, Matt Sanchez and Kevin Sladek 2005-07-01
26

tvix.cn

Wu Bo 2005-07-01
27

thatvideosite.com

2005-07-04
28

Castpost

Edwin Ong 2005-07-17
29

videorigolo.com

2005-07-22
30

grindtv.com

PureVideo Networks, Inc. 2005-08-01
31

100tv.com

Shu-Yao Liu 2005-09-01
32

revver.com

Steven Starr, Ian Clarke 2005-10-01
33

Searchforvideo

2005-10-01
34

nelsok.com

2005-10-01
35

video.qq.com

Richard Chang 2005-10-01
36

Shoobidoo

2005-10-11
37

Im.TV

2005-10-21
38

cnboo.com

owned by China YouTV and HuaJu 2005-10-26
39

maidee.com

2005-10-27
40

Break

Keith Richman 2005-10-29
41

caught-on-video.com

2005-12-01
42

movivi.com

Ma Sheng 2005-12-01
43

grouper.com

Josh Felser 2005-12-06
44

Patrz

2005-12-15
45

youare.tv

David Dundas and 3 more founders-names unknown 2006-01-01
46

5show.com

2006-01-01
47

tv.mofile.com

Andy Fan 2006-01-01
48

Flukiest

Duc Chau 2006-01-13
49

eyespot.com

David Dudas and Jim Kaskad 2006-01-14
50

Video.i123

2006-01-18
51

Mobilereporters

2006-02-06
52

Ugoto

2006-02-07
53

9mv.com

2006-03-01
54

myvideo.de

Christian Vollmann 2006-04-01
55

jumpcut.com

2006-04-01
56

videowebtown.com

2006-04-01
57

pickle.com

2006-04-13
58

Flix

2006-04-17
59

hubotv.com

2006-04-28
60

Meravideo

2006-05-01
61

addictingclips.com

2006-05-01
62

clipfish.de

Bertelsmann Tochter RTL 2006-06-01
63

youku.com

Gu Yongqiang, Victor Koo 2006-06-01
64

encyclomedia.com

2006-06-13
65

sevenload.com

Ibrahim Evsan 2006-06-14
66

Smog

2006-06-15
67

Polew

2006-06-15
68

Izlesene

2006-06-18
69

dv.ouou.com

2006-07-01
70

ku6.com

2006-07-01
71

Bubblare

2006-07-05
72

Flixya

2006-07-20
73

stage6.com

2006-08-01
74

feesee.com

2006-08-01
75

wideo.fr

2006-08-07
76

videa.hu

2006-08-23
77

WsPolnie

2006-09-01
78

ConnectFilms

Mansoor Ahamed, Greig Wibberley 2006-09-01
79

tudou.com

Wang Wei 2006-09-01
80

Wrzuta

2006-09-02
81

videocommunity.com

2006-09-25
82

sevenload.de

Ibrahim Evsan 2006-09-25
83

myvideo.co.za

2006-10-01
84

videoplayer.hu

2006-10-02
85

tipclip.de

2006-10-12
86

Goruntulerim

2006-10-16
87

Seret

2006-10-24
88

LiveVideo.com

2006-11-01
89

123Video

2006-11-01
90

videogizmo.hu

2006-11-20
91

Godtube

2006-11-29
92

v.wangyou.com

Ye Ling 2006-12-01
93

Videodubba

2006-12-02
94

Rutube

2006-12-05
95

FejmTV

2006-12-05
96

http://www.vidi.co.il

2006-12-10
97

Sirtonet

2006-12-11
98

Loadup

2007-01-01
99

tubearoo.com

2007-01-01
100

Dumpert

2007-01-01
101

zoopy.com

2007-01-03
102

Mittklipp-Aftonblad

2007-02-01
103

Moboflix.co.uk

2007-02-01
104

SkateVideo

2007-02-22
105

Video-Klipp

2007-03-01
106

rinconsocial.com

2007-03-02
107

Vuze

2007-03-02
108

qubetv.tv

2007-04-01
109

video.jeuxvideopc.com

2007-04-28
110

atomfilms.com

2007-05-01
111

indavideo.hu

2007-05-10
112

crackle.com

2007-07-01
113

videostate.tv

2007-07-01

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Ina (admin)
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No, youtube was not the first video sharing portal. The first we were able to find was ifilm which was originally founded by Internet media entrepreneurs Rodger Raderman and Luke McDonough. A connection to apple is to our knowledge nicht detectable. But if you know more or about ifilm or about another, maybe earlier entrant do not hesitate to let us know. Post your comment here! Team Firstentrant
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No youtube wasn´t the first videoportal! That´s great on this site firstentrant.com...you can see really clear which entrant is a innovator and which an imitator
Ina (admin)
commented spike.com:
Dear Users, unfortunalety we were not able to detect the founder of spike.com. We just know that the MTV Entertainment group is administrating spike.com. If you have further information for us, do not hesitate to let us know and comment here!
Susi23 (guest)
commented ifilm.com:
Is ifilm an apple page?
SaschaBomba (guest)
commented ifilm.com:
No it isn't