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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

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01 · 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.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English
  1. 01
    Dailymotion dailymotion.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Dailymotion

    video streaming site

    Compare Dailymotion with YouTube →
  2. 02
    TikTok tiktok.com Top 100 English 1 tracker

    TikTok - Make Your Day

    video-focused social media platform

    Compare TikTok with YouTube →
  3. 03
    Rumble rumble.com Top 10K English

    online video sharing, live streaming, and cloud services platform

    Compare Rumble with YouTube →
  4. 04
    Twitch twitch.tv Top 1K No trackers

    Twitch

    Twitch is an interactive livestreaming service for content spanning gaming, entertainment, sports, music, and more.

    Compare Twitch with YouTube →
  5. 05
    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 →
  6. 06
    Bitchute bitchute.com No trackers

    Bitchute

    Bitchute is a video service that prioritizes creators and champions users' freedoms and privacy.

    Compare Bitchute with YouTube →
  7. 07
    Bilibili bilibili.com Top 1K Chinese No trackers

    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。

    Compare Bilibili with YouTube →
  8. 08
    Odysee odysee.com 1 tracker

    Odysee

    Explore a whole universe of videos on Odysee from regular people just like you!

    Compare Odysee with YouTube →
  9. 09
    Rutube rutube.ru Top 10K Russian 1 tracker

    RUTUBE - смотрите видео онлайн, бесплатно.

    RUTUBE — ведущий российский видеопортал, предлагающий к просмотру тв онлайн, кинофильмы, сериалы, мультфильмы и пользовательское видео. Смотри. Создавай. Загружай.

    Compare Rutube with YouTube →
  10. 10
    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 →
  11. 11
    Aparat aparat.com Top 10K Persian No trackers

    آپارات - سرویس اشتراک ویدیو

    Iranian video sharing service

    Compare Aparat with YouTube →
  12. 12
    Triller triller.co No trackers

    American video-sharing and social networking service

    Compare Triller with YouTube →
  13. 13
    nicovideo.jp Top 10K English 2 trackers

    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!

    Compare nicovideo.jp with YouTube →
  14. 14
    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 →
  15. 15
    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 →
  16. 16
    Likee likee.video 1 tracker

    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.

    Compare Likee with YouTube →
  17. 17
    namasha.com Persian 1 tracker

    نماشا - سرویس رایگان اشتراک ویدیو

    ویدیوهای خود را به سادگی و رایگان در نماشا آپلود کرده و با دیگران به اشتراک بگذارید.

    Compare namasha.com with YouTube →
  18. 18
    Streamable streamable.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    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!

    Compare Streamable with YouTube →
  19. 19
    Kuaishou kuaishou.com Top 10K

    short-video platform

    Compare Kuaishou with YouTube →
  20. 20
    Musical.ly musical.ly Top 10K

    former Chinese social media service

    Compare Musical.ly 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 · 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

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