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YouTube
Who runs YouTube, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online video platform 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 youtube.com
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Wikidata: American video-sharing platform owned by Alphabet Inc.
- 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 17 alternatives below has fewer; 10 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
TikTok - Make Your Day
video-focused social media platform
Very close - 03
online video sharing, live streaming, and cloud services platform
Very close - 04
Twitch
Twitch is an interactive livestreaming service for content spanning gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more.
Very close - 05
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 - 06
Bitchute
Bitchute is a video service that prioritizes creators and champions users' freedoms and privacy.
Very close - 07
bilibili
哔哩哔哩(bilibili.com)是国内知名的视频弹幕网站,这里有及时的动漫新番,活跃的ACG氛围,有创意的Up主。大家可以在这里找到许多欢乐。
Very close - 08
Odysee
Explore a whole universe of videos on Odysee from regular people just like you!
Very close - 09
RUTUBE - смотрите видео онлайн, бесплатно.
RUTUBE — ведущий российский видеопортал, предлагающий к просмотру тв онлайн, кинофильмы, сериалы, мультфильмы и пользовательское видео. Смотри. Создавай. Загружай.
Very close - 10
KICK
KICK is a streaming platform that makes it easy for you to find and watch your favorite content.
Very close - 11
آپارات - سرویس اشتراک ویدیو
Iranian video sharing service
Very close - 12
American video-sharing and social networking service
Very close - 13
ニコニコ
日本最大級の動画サービス、ニコニコ(niconico)。動画にコメントを付けて楽しむニコニコ動画や、生放送番組にリアルタイムでコメントを付けられるニコニコ生放送のほか、イラスト・マンガ・最新ニュース・ゲームなど、エンターテイメントを全て無料で楽しめる!
Very close - 14
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 - 15
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 - 16
Page Not Available - Likee
Likee is a Short Video Community that allows you to explore more content of your interests and make more like-minded friends.
Very close - 17
نماشا - سرویس رایگان اشتراک ویدیو
ویدیوهای خود را به سادگی و رایگان در نماشا آپلود کرده و با دیگران به اشتراک بگذارید.
Very close - 18
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 - 19
short-video platform
Very close - 20
former Chinese social media 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 · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 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=QtQWEwHWM8tHiJ4s-jJWzEQrD_fF3luPnpzNDH-Nw-w
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=64jdes7le4h7e7lfpi22rijygx58j1
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- GlobalSign · not on youtube.com 10/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on youtube.com 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on youtube.com 8/20
- Apple Business · not on youtube.com 6/20
- Zendesk · not on youtube.com 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on youtube.com 5/20
- Atlassian · not on youtube.com 4/20
- Meta Business Suite 4/20
- Amazon SES · not on youtube.com 4/20
- Stripe · not on youtube.com 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on youtube.com 4/20
- Bing Webmaster Tools · not on youtube.com 3/20
- Canva · not on youtube.com 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on youtube.com 3/20