1. YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former
PayPal employees...
Dailymotion is a French video- sharing website on which users
can upload...
3. hulu
Hulu is a website and over-the- top (OTT) subscription service
offering ad-supported on-demand streaming...
Metacafe is a
video-sharing website that specializes in short-form video...
5. vimeo
Vimeo is a U.S.- based video-sharing website on which users can...
YouTube is a
video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February
2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.
The company is based in
San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 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,
short original videos, and educational videos. Most of the content on YouTube
has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS,
the BBC, Vevo, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their material via
the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can
watch videos, while registered users can upload an unlimited number of videos.
Videos considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only
to registered users at least 18 years old. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was
bought by Google for US$ 1.65 billion, and operates as a subsidiary of Google.
Dailymotion is a French
video- sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos. Its
headquarters are located in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. Dailymotion is
the world's second largest video-sharing website, behind YouTube.
As of
November 2012, the site was the 31st most visited website in the world with
over 116 million unique visitors accessing the site each month. In March 2005,
Benjamin Bejbaum and Olivier Poitrey founded the Dailymotion website from the
living room of Poitrey's apartment in Paris.
Hulu is a website and
over-the- top (OTT) subscription service offering ad-supported on-demand
streaming video of TV shows, movies, webisodes and other new media, trailers,
clips, and behind-the-scenes footage from NBC, Fox, ABC, TBS, and many other
networks and studios. Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in United
States of America and its overseas territories and is blocked by ip address
location from user outside US. Hulu provides video in Flash Video format,
including many films and shows that are available in 288p, 360p, 480p, and in
some cases, 720p or 1080p HD. Hulu also provides web syndication services for
other websites including AOL, MSN, Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, and Comcast's
xfinityTV.
Hulu is a joint venture of NBCUniversal Television Group , Fox
Broadcasting Company (News Corp) and Disney-ABC Television Group (The Walt
Disney Company), with funding by Providence Equity Partners, the owner of
Newport Television, which made a US$100 million equity investment and received
a 10% stake. In October 2012, Providence sold its 10% stake in Hulu.
Metacafe is a video-sharing website that specializes in
short-form video entertainment in the categories of movies, video games,
sports,
music and TV. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Tel Aviv.
music and TV. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London and Tel Aviv.
Metacafe is privately
held and its investors include Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures
and Highland Capital Partners. In its early years, Metacafe was similar to
other video viewing websites such as YouTube or Dailymotion, but has since transformed
itself into a short-form video entertainment site with several differences. The
site now showcases curated, exclusive and original premium entertainment-related
video content. The company's partners include marquee content providers such as
major movie studios, video game publishers, broadcast and cable TV networks,
music labels and sports leagues. The site is advertising supported, working
closely with brands in the entertainment, consumer electronics, telecommunications,
consumer packaged goods, food & beverage, and automotive sectors.
Vimeo is a U.S.- based
video-sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos. It was
founded by Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein in November 2004. They left the company
in 2007 and 2008 respectively. The name Vimeo was created by Lodwick and is a
play on the word video, inserting the word "me" as a reference to the
site's dedication to user-made video and is also an anagram of the word
"movie".
IAC/InterActiveCorp purchased Vimeo in August 2006, as part of
its acquisition of Connected Ventures. In January 2009, Dae Mellencamp joined
IAC as General Manager of Vimeo. She served as the CEO of Vimeo until March 19,
2012 when Kerry Trainor joined Vimeo as the CEO.
(Source - Wikipedia)
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