Top 36 free video hosting sites for video marketing

Recently i did some research on internet video hosting website & internet video marketing and listed top video streaming websites where you can do video marketing to promote your website or products and you can get paid by uploading video too. Now where to post video, yeh! everybody knows about big guy youtube but there are many other video hosting websites to consider. There are few classified video hosting and sharing sites too. These websites provides thousands of video tutorial, review of  thousands of softwares, book reviews, hilarious funny videos, informative science, computer technology and travel videos, exciting sports videos, as well as interesting school and educational videos, latest music video, latest movie trailers, kind of whatever you want!

http://buzznet.com/
Buzznet.com is a photo, journal, and video-sharing social media network. Like other social networking sites, Buzznet is a place for members to share content based on their personal interests. Unlike classic social networks, which focus primarily on messaging and profile pages, Buzznet members participate in communities that are created around ideas, events and interests; most predominantly, music, celebrities and the media.

http://www.flixya.com/
Flixya is a social network that puts 100% ad revenue in your pocket. We've built the tools for you to share your videos, photos, and blogs. Your place to make friends, earn money, network and more.

http://www.gofish.com/
Go Fish is a largish hosting site which helps you promote your directorial skills. The primary objective of this site is to give you your 15 minutes of fame. Documentaries, comedies, spoofs, pranks, and even episodic dramas – all are welcome here. The interface is pretty dense (and dark) and will particularly appeal to the gamers. It’s pretty easy to use though. If you’re seeking a wide exposure for your work, this could be the host for you.

http://www.video.google.com/
Google Videos is a free video sharing website and also a video search engine from Google Inc. Google Videos allows selected videos to be remotely embedded on other websites and provides the necessary HTML code alongside the media, similar to YouTube. This allows for websites to host large amounts of video remotely on Google Videos without running into bandwidth or storage capacity issues.

http://www.youtube.com
This is the big boy for Internet video hosting - How to upload your videos to YouTube. Youtube uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos.  Unregistered users can watch the videos, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos.

http://www.photobucket.com
Photobucket was just a image hosting site before but now they have included video uploading and sharing feature.Photobucket offers image hosting, free photo sharing and video sharing. Upload your photos, host your videos, and share them with friends and family.

http://www.videojug.com
1000s of how videos and articles. You can upload your own videos and take part in the busy discussion forums by posting questions and responding to other users’ questions, either by using text or your webcam.

http://blip.tv
blip.tv is a free videoblogging, podcasting and video sharing service. If you don't have a blog, they will give you one, and if already have one, they will help make it a show. BlipTV is another IVM fave rave. Highly rated by PC World and Business 2.0 magazines this site syndicates its content with the likes of AOL Video, Yahoo! Video, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, MSN Video, Google Video etc. thus effectively multiplying your reach by millions. If you’ve got what it takes to create a great show, it may even get broadcast on this TV channel that blip.tv owns. And if your show’s a hit, they allow you to pick your own advertisers and earn revenue. Flash, QuickTime, DivX, 3gp – more or less all major formats are supported.

http://www.metacafe.com/
Metacafe is of the world's largest video sites, serving a vast smorgasbord of best videos, funniest movies and clips.

http://www.veoh.com/
Veoh provides free access to all of the great TV and film studio content, independent productions, and user-generated videos on the Web

http://www.atom.com/
AtomFilms was one of the first Internet Video hosting and distribution services - it is still one of the best. Successful user video uploads at Atom reach a huge audience, earn money, and can gain distribution across the Web, on phones, and even on Comedy Central.

http://dailymotion.com
DailyMotion collects the latest music videos, short movies, TV shows, funny and extreme videos from a  variety of web sites in addition to creating their own original content. You can also upload, share, and embed your videos

http://www.collegehumor.com
CollegeHumor showcases hilarious original videos, articles, contests, and interactive features, as well as pictures and videos submitted by fans like you. Humor is not for kids....

http://www.howcast.com
Are you an expert? Howcast welcomes experts from across the web to share their how-to videos with interested viewers on Howcast.com, the Howcast Distribution Network, and Howcast Mobile.

http://www.brightcove.com/en/
Brightcove lets you build and launch your own internet TV station. You can have your channel up and running within minutes and retain full control over the program schedule. Videos uploaded by other users can be incorporated into your shows too. Your channel is syndicated with other major players on the net and you can earn revenue through advertising as well as video sales. Features a pretty eye-candy interface.

http://www.clipshack.com/
ClipShack is a community for videophiles – a place for sharing your videos with the world. Its run by Reality Digital, Inc. – a company with years of experience in catering to the multimedia needs of the corporate sector. Pretty basic interface.

http://www.flicklife.com
FlickLife counts among the handful of revenue sharing hosts that there are. You get to broadcast your own videos to the world at no cost at all and yet get some moollah in return. Features buddy lists. FlickLife is a privately owned company based in Columbus, Ohio.

http://lulu.tv
Lulu boasts an array of high class editors, designers, writers and marketers who have worked in the publishing industry and are dedicated to ensuring your book meets and exceeds industry standards. Whether you choose a publishing or marketing pack or an individual service like cover design, you can be assured your manuscript will be handled with care and professionalism.

http://www.flukiest.com/
Flukiest is an interactive community for sharing and managing digital media by artists, photographers, designers, musicians, writers, directors, producers, and technologists – which in other words mean it’s a photo and video hosting service. There seems to be a tagging engine at large judging from the humongous tag-cloud you encounter on the front page. Other services include email, buddy list, forums, blog and a separate music video section.

http://www.flurl.com/
FLURL allows you to upload and share videos under a set of pre-existing categories. Their rating system consists of a meter that displays the FLURL or HURL rating of a video. Adult content can be found profusely (there’s a separate above 18 section). Adult Filtering options are available but turned off by default for any new visitors.

http://www.kewego.de/
This is a German service and the interface language is Deutsch. However, the registration process and controls are pretty similar to any of the common video hosts – so you shouldn’t find it too difficult to make your way around this one, even if you don’t know the language. Incidentally, there is a small link right at the bottom of the page that allows you to switch to the English version. Keep in mind though – majority of the audience is German.

http://www.livedigital.com/
A community based video sharing service with specialised channels where you can upload related videos. Consequently jumping channels brings up a horde of thematic videos. Permitted uploads include photos, audio tracks and videos. Features nearly unlimited (?) uploads – which in other words mean that they probably have paid, high-storage plans as well. There’s an inbuilt social networking feature in this and hence they allow you to deck up your profile in your own way using an advanced template creator. Drag & drop functionality for quick setup of photo / video journals.

http://www.livevideo.com/
Channels, Favorites, Subscriptions, Videos, Photos – nothing out of the place that can make this service really stand out. It’s got a good blend of general features including a Hit or Miss rating system. However, it’s probably one of the very few which offer direct recording from webcams (see Viddler and VideoEgg).

http://www.myubo.com/
Myubo comes in four linguistic flavours – Czech, Deutsch, English and Slovak. It sports a mechanism to upload, view and share live and pre-recorded video via mobile 2.5G and 3G networks such as GPRS, EDGE, CDMA or UMTS, web and fixed IP networks. Pretty much covers the whole consumer wireless spectrum. Among offered features are channel based organisation, Mobile TV and user communities.

http://revver.com/revver/
Revver has a clever mechanism that helps it track and monetize the uploaded videos as they spread virally across the internet – so “no matter where your creativity travels, you benefit“. Your uploaded video is paired with a targeted advertisement and the revenue is split 50/50 with you. Those who share and spread the videos get to keep part of the spoils too. 20% of the ad revenue is handed to them. Of particular interest to the developers is the Revver API, which allows one to build a video-sharing site complete with user accounts, uploading, sharing tools and access to the full Revver library of videos. The bandwidth is covered by Revver and the ad revenue is split three ways – you, Revver and the content creator.

http://www.selfcasttv.com/
A basic hosting service with standard features and channel-based organisation. Allows adult content and has a SafeSearch filter in place. One upper it has compared to other services is that it allows for direct mobile based uploads through MMS (currently in UK & Europe only).

http://www.soapbox.msn.com/
This is one service that I probably don’t have much to talk about. It’s part of the reknowned MSN Suite of online applications. Offers all the standard bookmarking, commenting, tagging, rating and sharing features and has it’s own flash-based player.

http://www.spike.com/
A service by iFILM that has an extensive library of movie clips, music videos, short films, video game trailers, action sports and its popular ‘viral videos’ collection. Since October 2005, it’s a part of the Viacom network – so one can definitely trust this one. Of course you can expect all the latest and hottest of the videos here and can upload your own too. Has clips of daily TV shows from around the world.

http://www.divx.com/stage6/
A video hosting service by DivX for people who love videos. DivX, if you remember, is the group which came up with a similarly named format of video encoding for online distribution. DivX videos can be of pretty high quality and are rendered through a custom player which is available as a plug-in for most famous browsers. According to the Stage6 team, “Anyone can become a publisher, anyone can build an audience and every video available on Stage6 is compatible with over 70 million consumer electronics devices from every major manufacturer, making it easy to play back Stage6 videos on your television or portable device.“

http://www.uvouch.com/
Another site that offers all the standard features – video sharing & organisation, social networking, discussion groups, playlists, customisable profiles etc. There’s rating system in place with which you can vouch for other’s content. Allow for direct importing of videos from other hosting sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Grouper, Myspace etc. Has a couple of widgets & gadgets for your site / blog.

http://www.videoegg.com/
VideoEgg features one of the slickest interfaces I’ve come across and offers a bag of really useful online video manipulation tools (cropping, resizing, direct recording etc.). Allows sharing through email, direct HTML embedding and Permalinks. The videos are displayed through their own interactive embeddable flash-based player. High-end sites with > 1 million visitors per month can sign-up for a revenue sharing partnership where ads are displayed beside each video and the revenue handed down to the partner. Employs content-filtering to weed out inappropriate videos.

http://www.vimeo.com/
Another cool video hosting service that has been around since end 2004 and reflects the Web 2.0 genre of web-design. They share helpful pointers with you in case you’re lacking ideas regarding creation of unique video content. In action are a bunch of highly configurable privacy options with which you can create fine-grained access control lists to allow only select group of people to view your videos. In short, you choose who exactly sees which of your videos. Has
personalised homepage where you can neatly arrange all of your favorite videos. Allows tagging of videos.

http://zeec.de/
Zeec is another German video hosting service that you won’t find so difficult to navigate around. This one too allows you to directly record / update videos off your webcam. The interface follows the Web 2.0 ideal and has a vague resemblance to the Last.FM music cum social networking site.

http://www.zippyvideos.com/
This one offers your own sub-domain under ZippyVideos to host your profile (e.g. profile.zippyvideos.com). Unlimited uploads are permitted pertaining to the fact that no single upload is greater than 20MB. Privacy options, video organisation and social networking are an integral part of the package.

http://www.zoopy.com/
Zoopy proudly presents itself as South Africa’s first video and photo sharing social network. It’s a pretty basic service with an easy-going note that can be spotted all over the site. There’s a standing challenge that attempts to coax the hidden director in you to come out into the limelight.

if you have more video hosting websites please add this on comment, publish your video on different video hosting sites and drive more traffic on your website. Hope it would be useful, cheers..

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