If you want to upload your video to the web, YouTube may seem like the obvious place to go. But don't overlook the many other video sharing web sites that exist, each of which offers its own unique features and access to unique audiences.
Here's a quick rundown of many of the video sharing web sites you can find online.
- YouTube
YouTube is the biggest and best known, and it offers many features if you want to share your video and get it seen by a large audience. - Revver
Revver is a revenue sharing, as well as video sharing, web site. Ads embedded at the end of videos can earn producers real money. - Google Video
Google purchased YouTube, but it still maintains its own video sharing and search tools. - Blip.tv
Use Blip.tv to start your own online television program. - Jump Cut
Yahoo!'s entry into the world of social video sharing, Jump Cut offers a sleek online video editing tool, as well as all the bells and whistles for uploading and sharing your videos.
- Yahoo! Video
Yahoo! Video has all the features available on other large video-sharing sites. It also gives you the ability to upload a transcript for your video, which makes it easier to find in web searches. - My Space
If you have a My Space page, you have a forum for easily sharing your videos online.
- Video Egg
Upload your video, share it and, possibly, make money off of it.
- Bolt
Bolt is aimed at the youth set, and offers tools for uploading and sharing videos, photos and games. - Drop Shots
A family focused site, Drop Shots allows users to easily upload and share videos and photos with family and friends.
- Cast Post
Cast Post is a simple site for uploading and sharing your videos.
- Clip Shack
Clip Shack offers all sorts of tools for tagging and sharing the videos you upload.
- Daily Motion
Daily Motion offers a clean interface and all of the tools you expect from a quality video sharing site.
- Eye Spot
Eye Spot lets you upload and share videos, but the site really stands out for the way it lets you remix and edit videos right on the web.
- Grouper
Grouper makes it easy to upload your videos, and share them with family, friends or the world. - Flukiest
Flukiest is a social networking site that allows users to share videos, photos and blogs with friends and soon-to-be online friends.
- Meta Cafe
A mix of user-generated and professionally produced videos, Meta Cafe lets you upload and share videos with a broad audience. - Life Logger
Life Logger is a site designed to help you store and share the media that defines your life. Upload videos, as well as photo and blog entries. - Media Max
Media Max is an online storage site, offering 25 GB of free online storage so can conveniently store and share your videos, photos and other files.
- My Video Karaoke
This site is dedicated to sharing karaoke-type videos. Sing your favorite song, upload the video, and share it with other video karaoke viewers.
- Our Media
Our Media calls itself the "global home for grassroots media." If you create videos about social issues, you can upload them here and share them with an interested audience.
- Phanfare
Phanfare is a family-friendly site that offers unlimited storage of your photos and videos -- for a price.
- Mixpo
Mixpo is a downloadable desktop tool that allows users to edit, mix and manage videos, photos and music, and then share that content online.
- Podesk
Podesk allows users to quickly create video "channels," so you can host your own content on your own web site.
- Selfcast TV
Along with all the other features you should expect from a video sharing web site, Selfcast TV offers viewers the ability to download videos to portable devices like iPods and PSPs.
- sevenload
sevenload is an international site for sharing photos and videos. - Sharkle
Sharkle offers an online community where users can upload, share and watch videos.
- Shozu
Shozu is designed especially for sharing videos from cell phones
- Vimeo
Vimeo put the "me" back in video. - Stickam
Not only can you upload videos, photos and music to Stickam, you can even broadcast yourself live over the site.
- Vmix
Vmix lets you create a channel for your videos, and add your own branding to the video player.
- vSocial
You can use vSocial to upload your videos, create personalized channels, and even earn money off of your content. - Zippy Videos
Zippy Videos offers free and easy uploads (you don't even need to sign up for an account), though the file size restrictions (less than 20MB) are rather restricting.
- Nelsok
Nelsok offers free uploads, large file-size limits (up to 200 MB), and the ability to place ads in your videos (thereby earning you some money). - Brightcove
Brightcove works with some of the largest media producers out there, but it also allows little guys to upload and share their videos. - ViddYou
ViddYou is a video-sharing site dedicated solely to video bloggers.
- Vlip
What's a Vlip? A short, personal web message, recorded for and posted on Vlip.com.
- Ustream
Leave your webcam running, and you can create a 24/7 program of your life on Ustream.tv.

