Top 25 Video Sharing Sites

Having become a Youtube regular almost a little bit too soon, I decided to do a little investigation into what other sites are out there and how they rank in terms of the traffic they receive. They are ranked using Alexa traffic ratings as of October 03, 2006. Alexa traffic ratings are imperfect in several ways and measure page views not video views, but they do provide a good estimate for ranking purposes. Ranking numbers after each entry are for all sites on the web. (i.e. YouTube is the 10th most popular of all sites on the web, not video sharing sites.)

There are a several very popular video sharing sites that Alexa does not break out for ranking because they are sub-domains of larger sites. These include Yahoo Video, Goggle Video, MySpace, and AOL Uncut. All of these sites would rank high in the Top 30. Interestingly, Youtube leads the pack although I have seen reports recently of Google surpassing Youtube as the most popular video sharing site. This I cannot verify using the Alexa information, but could very well be. Given this amount of traffic it must cost Youtube about 1 million dollars a month to finance the bandwith required to service all the views, a considerable achievement for a company which still only employs around 60 people. Youtube claims to finance their activities solely through advertising, but that is still a tall order.. anyway - my musings aside, here's the list:

#1 www.youtube.com (Alexa Ranking #10)

#2 www.grouper.friendster.com (Alexa Ranking #40)

#3 www.photobucket.com (Alexa Ranking #73)

#4 www.metacafe.com (Alexa Ranking #141)

#5 www.break.com (Alexa Ranking #318)

#6 www.dailymotion.com (Alexa Ranking #709)

#7 www.ifilm.com (Alexa Ranking #1,062)

#8 www.bolt.com (Alexa Ranking #1,260)

#9 www.putfile.com (Alexa Ranking #1,294)

#10 www.vidilife.com (Alexa Ranking #1,813)

#11 www.buzznet.com (Alexa Ranking #1,960)

#12 www.grouper.com (Alexa Ranking #2,762)

#13 www.revver.com (Alexa Ranking #3,084)

#14 www.vsocial.com (Alexa Ranking #3,808)

#15 www.guba.com (Alexa Ranking #4,022)

#16 www.veoh.com (Alexa Ranking #4,041)

#17 www.yikers.com (Alexa Ranking #6,308)

#18 www.maniatv.com (Alexa Ranking #7,932)

#19 www.addictingclips.com (Alexa Ranking #8,352)

#20 www.vimeo.com (Alexa Ranking #9,043)

#21 Phanfare (Alexa Ranking #10,910)

#22 vMix (Alexa Ranking #15,252)

#23 CastPost (Alexa Ranking #15,376)

#24 Jumpcut (Alexa Ranking #19,689)

#25 Clipshack (Alexa Ranking #25,874)

Comments

[Asi]

wow this is a fantastic list, thanks.

A.