Video aggregator
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A video aggregator is a website that collects and organizes online videos from other sources. Video aggregation is done for different purposes, and websites take different approaches to achieve their purpose.
Some sites try to collect videos of high quality or interest for visitors to view. The collection may be made by editors or may be based on community votes. Another method is to base the collection on those videos most viewed, either at the aggregator site or at various popular video hosting sites.
Some sites exist to allow users to collect their own sets of videos, for personal use as well as browsing and viewing by others. These sites can develop online communities around video sharing. Other sites allow users to create a personalized video playlist, for personal use as well as for browsing and viewing by others.
There are many video aggregators. Sites that are estimated to have at least 500,000 unique U.S. visitors per month include:
In 2008, VideoNuze reported that investors had provided more than $366 million in capital to certain "top" video aggregators to date.
Video hosting sites, general media hosting sites, and social networking sites can perform video aggregation as a secondary function, and video aggregators can also serve to some extent as hosting and social networking services.
Some sites try to collect videos of high quality or interest for visitors to view. The collection may be made by editors or may be based on community votes. Another method is to base the collection on those videos most viewed, either at the aggregator site or at various popular video hosting sites.
Some sites exist to allow users to collect their own sets of videos, for personal use as well as browsing and viewing by others. These sites can develop online communities around video sharing. Other sites allow users to create a personalized video playlist, for personal use as well as for browsing and viewing by others.
There are many video aggregators. Sites that are estimated to have at least 500,000 unique U.S. visitors per month include:
| Video Aggregator | | est. Monthly U.S. Unique Visitors | | est. Monthly Worldwide Unique Visitors |
|---|---|---|
| atom.com* | 752,680 | |
| blip.tv Blip.tv The website Blip.tv is a platform for web series. The company offers a for the "best in original web series" and also offers a dashboard for producers of original web series to distribute and monetize their productions.... |
756,100 | 1,900,000 |
| break.com Break.com Break.com is a humor website founded in 1998 that features comedy videos, flash games, and pictures among other material. The chief executive officer of Break is Steve Boss... |
10,600,000 | 19,700,000 |
| crackle.com Crackle Crackle is a digital network and studio, featuring commercially supported streaming video content in Flash Video format. It is owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, and its content consists primarily of Sony's library of films and television shows... |
2,500,000 | |
| dailymotion.com Dailymotion Dailymotion is a video sharing service website, headquartered in the 18th arrondissement, Paris, France. According to Comscore, Dailymotion is the second largest video site in the world after YouTube.... |
13,900,000 | 77,500,000 |
| esnips.com | 675,600 | |
| liveleak.com Liveleak LiveLeak is a video sharing website that lets users post and share videos. Liveleak places emphasis on current events, politics and reality-based footage such as war scenes from various parts of the world.The site went live on October 31, 2006... |
1,700,000 | 4,000,000 |
| livevideo.com | 1,300,000 | |
| metacafe.com Metacafe Metacafe is a web site that specializes in short-form video entertainment in the categories of movies, video games, sports, music and TV.The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Tel Aviv... |
11,300,000 | 43,900,000 |
| revver.com Revver Revver is a video sharing website that hosts user-generated content. Revver attaches advertising to user-submitted video clips and originally offered to share ad revenue with the video creators. Videos could be displayed, downloaded and shared across the web in either Apple QuickTime or FLV format... |
537,800 | |
| sevenload.com Sevenload Sevenload is an online video and Web-2.0 media platform used for managing video and multimedia contents. Since its founding in April 2006, the platform emerged on international markets to become a Social Media Network for photos, videos and web TV content... |
637,500 | |
| stickam.com Stickam Stickam is a website devoted to live-streaming video, featuring both professional and user-generated content. The site launched in 2005. Stickam features user-submitted pictures, audio, video, and most prominently, live streaming video chat... * |
804,092 | |
| vimeo.com Vimeo Vimeo is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. It was founded by Zach Klein and Jake Lodwick in November 2004... |
10,300,000 | 29,700,000 |
| vodpod.com | 2,800,000 | 8,000,000 |
| veoh.com Veoh Veoh is an Internet television company based in San Diego, California. It allows users to find and watch major studio content, independent productions and user-generated material. The company is a subsidiary of Israeli start-up Qlipso.... |
3,300,000 | 10,900,000 |
| Sources: all estimates are from quantcast.com, except for sites with asterisks (*) which are from compete.com. Retrieved 10-24-2010 | ||
In 2008, VideoNuze reported that investors had provided more than $366 million in capital to certain "top" video aggregators to date.
Video hosting sites, general media hosting sites, and social networking sites can perform video aggregation as a secondary function, and video aggregators can also serve to some extent as hosting and social networking services.