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YouTube

Who runs YouTube, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest video sharing alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Part of google.com
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Dailymotion

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs YouTube

YouTube youtu.be

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Company
No imprint we could read
Part of
google.com Runs this domain’s DNS
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What YouTube tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 18 alternatives below has fewer; 11 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool
  • Third-party embeds

    Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to YouTube

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to YouTube, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to YouTube match.

  1. 01
    Dailymotion dailymotion.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Dailymotion

    video streaming site

    Compare Dailymotion with YouTube →
  2. 02
    Vimeo vimeo.com Top 100 English 2 trackers

    Vimeo - All-in-One Video Platform

    The video platform trusted by 287 million creatives, entrepreneurs, and businesses. Everything you need to create, manage, and share stunning videos.

    Compare Vimeo with YouTube →
  3. 03
    TikTok tiktok.com Top 100 English 1 tracker

    TikTok - Make Your Day

    video-focused social media platform

    Compare TikTok with YouTube →
  4. 04
    KICK kick.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    KICK

    KICK is a streaming platform that makes it easy for you to find and watch your favorite content.

    Compare KICK with YouTube →
  5. 05
    kwai.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Make Everyone Shine

    Kwai is a social network for short videos and trends. Discover funny short videos. Contribute to the virtual community with recordings, videos of your life, playing daily challenges or likes the best memes and videos. Download the app to share your life with short videos and choose from dozens of magical effects and filters for them.

    Compare kwai.com with YouTube →
  6. 06
    SoundCloud soundcloud.com Top 1K English 2 trackers

    Stream and listen to music online for free with SoundCloud

    Discover and play over 320 million music tracks. Join the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators.

    Compare SoundCloud with YouTube →
  7. 07
    Instagram instagram.com Top 100 English No trackers

    Instagram

    Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

    Compare Instagram with YouTube →
  8. 08
    Cookpad cookpad.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Choose your Region - Cookpad

    Thousands of authentic recipes from around the world, recommended and tested by home cooks. Save your favourites and share your own on Cookpad.

    Compare Cookpad with YouTube →
  9. 09
    FC2 fc2.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    FC2 - Free Website, Analyzer, Blog, Rental Server, SEO Countermeasures, etc. -

    FC2 is a portal site which brings you a pleasant web life providing blog/website/analyzer services and others. Our blog service is ranked No.2 domestically and supported by wide range of users including both beginners and heavy users. We offer as many as 30 different services.

    Compare FC2 with YouTube →
  10. 10
    Rapidgator rapidgator.net English 1 tracker

    Rapidgator

    Download file from Rapidgator. Cloud hosting solutions, safe and secure file hosting

    Compare Rapidgator with YouTube →
  11. 11
    Yandex yandex.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Yandex — fast Internet search

    Yandex finds anything: webpages, images, music, good. Solve any problem — from everyday to a scientific one. Search by text, voice or image.

    Compare Yandex with YouTube →
  12. 12
    Lycos lycos.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Home – Lycos

    search engine and web portal

    Compare Lycos with YouTube →
  13. 13
    Vidyard vidyard.com English 2 trackers

    Vidyard - Video Tools for Virtual Sales and Marketing Teams

    Vidyard is an online video platform for business which allows you to increase leads, accelerate your pipeline and delight your customers. Learn more!

    Compare Vidyard with YouTube →
  14. 14
    Viu viu.com English 2 trackers

    Viu | No Service

    streaming media

    Compare Viu with YouTube →
  15. 15
    Fox Broadcasting Company fox.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Stream Live News, Sports, TV Shows & Entertainment | FOX One

    Live TV streaming service for sports, news and entertainment. Watch FOX live, stream TV shows on demand, and more. Start your 3-day free trial.

    Compare Fox Broadcasting Company with YouTube →
  16. 16
    Cheezburger cheezburger.com English 1 tracker

    Home - The Big Cheezburger Network - Made from the finest of internets - Cheezburger

    You get a Cheezburger, and YOU get a Cheezburger. EVERYONE GETS A CHEEZBURGER. The original internet funny site.

    Compare Cheezburger with YouTube →
  17. 17
    SlideShare slideshare.net Top 1K English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos

    Compare SlideShare with YouTube →
  18. 18
    MUBI mubi.com English No trackers

    MUBI: Watch and Discover Movies

    Watch truly great cinema. Wherever you are. From iconic, award-winning directors to emerging auteurs. Transformative films from all over the world. Stream Now. Download to watch Offline. Start your free 7 day trial now.

    Compare MUBI with YouTube →
  19. 19
    CBS cbs.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    CBS TV Network Primetime, Daytime, Late Night and Classic Television Shows

    Watch CBS television online. Find CBS primetime, daytime, late night, and classic tv episodes, videos, and information.

    Compare CBS with YouTube →
  20. 20
    Prime Video primevideo.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Prime Video | Watch movies, TV shows, Live TV, and sports

    Watch now on Prime Video for a wide selection of movies, TV shows, live TV, and sports.

    Compare Prime Video with YouTube →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles YouTube’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones YouTube uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what YouTube adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 3 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
28 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to YouTube’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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