YouTube is the most popular video hosting sites on the Internet. As a free video sharing sites, Youtube has a very limited capabilities. They also have a lot of restricted rules that may limit our creativity. If you feel that YouTube can not fulfill your needs, you may need alternatives to it. Actually there are a lot of video sharing websites other than YouTube. Here are several video sharing websites that can be alternatives to YouTube:
Vimeo
Vimeo is a video hosting site based in the United States. If you are looking for traffic, Vimeo can be a good place to upload your videos. Vimeo has a lot of users and a good ranking position on search engine. Vimeo place quality over quantity, there are a fabulous amount of high quality short films and music videos uploaded on Vimeo.
Metacafe
Metacafe is another great alternative to YouTube. Metacafe has a great system to ensure all uploaded videos are in high quality, and there are no duplicates on their website. They also classified videos in different categories such as music, sports, video games, movies, TV and receives millions of unique viewers each month.
Dailymotion
Dailymotion is also a popular video sharing service and quite similar to YouTube. Dailymotion’s home page also shows trending video, categories, and search bar that allow the user to search video based on tags and channel just like YouTube. It is also has a clean and simple video player.
You may not think Facebook as a video sharing website, but the truth is Facebook is a social media network that allow their users to upload and share videos. Uploading videos to facebook are simple. You will probably gain immediate like and views from your online Facebook friends.
Veoh
Veoh is a video sharing website that allow their users to upload videos with unlimited length. Veoh’s video player also can be embedded in any websites. There are great amount of full length movie uploaded in Veoh.
Those are some list of popular video sharing websites other than YouTube. Every website has it own features and benefits. So choose one that fit your needs most.