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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
- 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
- First copy 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
None of the 60 sites closest to YouTube match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
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 and search numbers · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 33 ms
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
Sitemaps
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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