youtu.be
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
Measured from YouTube’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit YouTube01 · 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.
- 01
Dailymotion
video streaming site
Very close - 02
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.
Very close - 03
TikTok - Make Your Day
video-focused social media platform
Very close - 04
online video sharing, live streaming, and cloud services platform
Very close - 05
Upload Video Online - Free Video Hosting - Streamable
Upload your video in seconds on Streamable. We accept a variety of video formats including MP4, MOV, AVI, and more. It's free, try it now!
Very close - 06
KICK
KICK is a streaming platform that makes it easy for you to find and watch your favorite content.
Very close - 07
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.
Very close - 08
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.
Very close - 09
BiliBili
BiliBili, Southeast Asia\'s leading anime, comics, and games (ACG) community where people can create, watch and share engaging videos.
Very close - 10
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Very close - 11
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.
Very close - 12
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.
Very close - 13
Rapidgator
Download file from Rapidgator. Cloud hosting solutions, safe and secure file hosting
Very close - 14
BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed has breaking news, vital journalism, quizzes, videos, celeb news, Tasty food videos, recipes, DIY hacks, and all the trending buzz you’ll want to share with your friends. Copyright BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.
Very close - 15
Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Find, rate and share the best memes and images. Discover the magic of the Internet at Imgur.
Very close - 16
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.
Very close - 17
Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
Very close - 18
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!
Very close - 19
Viu | No Service
streaming media
Very close - 20
Russian streaming service
Very close
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
What changed
Price and policy 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 = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,208
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 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
Built with
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:wght@300;400;500;700&family=YouTube+Sans:…
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=2pAxAvJeUmVBMOlonVG64CJkyohWmC1IUEzV7eMshsI
Sitemaps
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- GlobalSign · not on youtu.be 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on youtu.be 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on youtu.be 8/20
- Apple Business · not on youtu.be 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on youtu.be 6/20
- Zendesk · not on youtu.be 6/20
- Atlassian · not on youtu.be 5/20
- Google Analytics · not on youtu.be 5/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools · not on youtu.be 4/20
- Canva · not on youtu.be 4/20
- DocuSign · not on youtu.be 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on youtu.be 4/20
- Stripe · not on youtu.be 4/20
- nginx · not on youtu.be 4/20