Alternatives and competitors
Sites like YouTube
The 20 closest video sharing alternatives to YouTube, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to YouTube? The closest matches are 9GAG, kslawin.com and Musical.ly. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About YouTube
YouTube youtu.be
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Summary by Claude
youtu.be is YouTube's official short-link domain, used to share links that redirect to videos on YouTube, Google's video-sharing service for watching, uploading and sharing videos and music.
- Who it’s for
- General internet users and video creators
- Business model
- Advertising and subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to YouTube
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to YouTube, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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9GAG - Best Funny Memes and Breaking News
Your daily dose of funny memes, GIFs, videos and weird news stories. We deliver hundreds of new memes daily and much more humor anywhere you go.
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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.
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TikTok - Make Your Day
video-focused social media platform
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Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.
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WeTransfer | Skicka stora filer snabbt
Det enkla, snabba och säkra sättet att skicka filer till hela världen utan ett konto. Dela filer, foton och videor idag helt gratis.
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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.
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Client Challenge
American hosting service, owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos
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Myinstants | The largest instant sound buttons website in Germany!
Myinstants is where you discover funny instant sound buttons from Germany. HAVE FUN!
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How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
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The Official Home Page of the United States Army
The latest news, images, videos, career information, and links from the U.S. Army
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product discovery website
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Jehovah’s Witnesses—Official Website: jw.org | English
Jehovah’s Witnesses: Our official website provides online access to the Bible, Bible-based publications, and current news. It describes our beliefs and organization.
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Welcome to GOV.UK
GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information.
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Free web proxy and a cutting-edge online proxy | CroxyProxy
CroxyProxy is a cutting-edge secure web proxy service. Use it to access your favorite websites and web applications: as a Facebook or YouTube proxy. It is free, you can try this online proxy right now!
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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.
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Linkmake
Make your link safe using Link Protector
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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!
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American media company
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BiliBili
BiliBili, Southeast Asia\'s leading anime, comics, and games (ACG) community where people can create, watch and share engaging videos.
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Language selection | European Union
Discover how the EU functions, its principles, priorities; find out about its history and member states; learn about its legal basis and your EU rights.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to youtu.be’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones YouTube uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What YouTube is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what YouTube adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 15/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- GlobalSign · not on youtu.be 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on youtu.be 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on youtu.be 7/20
- Apple Business · not on youtu.be 6/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on youtu.be 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on youtu.be 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on youtu.be 4/20
- Vue.js · not on youtu.be 4/20
- Zendesk · not on youtu.be 4/20
- Nuxt · not on youtu.be 3/20
- nginx · not on youtu.be 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on youtu.be 2/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on youtu.be 2/20
- Tengine · not on youtu.be 2/20