Free Video Hosting
Free web hosting for your videos and movies
Free Video Sharing Services and Video Hosting
This page lists web hosting companies (or more accurately video hosting companies/sites) that will host your videos and movies free of charge. You can make your movies, training videos, video tutorials, home movies, etc, and place them on these sites which will host them on their servers. They typically convert these shows to a format they can deliver on the web, and allow you to embed the video into your own web page. Note that some, if not all, will also add their advertisements either to their videos or to the page showing your videos (hosted on their server). If this is not acceptable to you, you will have to host your movie or whatnot on a commercial web hosting company. These sites also typically limit the types of videos they are willing to host, for example, certain types of videos may not be allowed, the size of the video file and the resolution of the video.
While these video hosts sometimes provide rudimentary tools for you to use to work on your video, you may prefer to use a more versatile video editing tool such as those listed on the Free Video Editors (Video Editing Software) page.
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Disclaimer
The information provided on this page comes without any warranty whatsoever. Use it at your own risk. Just because a program, book, document or service is listed here or has a good review does not mean that I endorse or approve of the program or of any of its contents. All the other standard disclaimers also apply.
Free Video Web Hosting Sites
- YouTube
Google's YouTube allows you to upload videos of up to 2 GB in size and 10 minutes in duration. The video clip or movie that you upload will be resized to fit the YouTube window. File formats accepted by YouTube include WMV, AVI, MOV, MPG, and files from "most" digital cameras, camcorders and cell phones. At the moment, however, these formats are converted and delivered as a Flash video. You are also allowed to embed your shows into your website; for example, the How to Add a Feedback Form to Your Website (Video Tutorial) page includes a training video hosted by YouTube.
- Blip.tv
Unlike many other services Blip.tv does not impose a size limit on the files you upload to their video hosting service, although they recommend that you limit your files to 100 MB. They have an opt-in advertising model, which means that you can choose not to display advertisements on your video. However, if you do, you get 50% of the ad proceeds. Video files can be in any format, although they prefer Quicktime and WMV files. The files are presented in whatever format you upload it in. They also provide a Flash version of your video which their system automatically generates for you. The service also allows you to embed your videos in your website.
- Viddler
Viddler allows hosting for video files of up to 500 MB. Files may be in the MOV, AVI, WMV, MPG, MPG2, MPEG2, MP4, 3GP, 3G2, ASF, FLV, DV, and QT formats. You can embed the video into your website, and even start the video at specific portions of the video file using their system of timed tags.
- Revver
Revver allows you to upload video files of up to 100 MB. Your video must be at least 4 seconds long, and there is no upper limit in duration. They share 50% of the advertising revenue generated from your movie with you. File formats accepted include MOV, MPEG, MPG, MP4, WMV, ASF and AVI (including DivX AVIs). Your video will be delivered in either the Flash or Quicktime format. Each video is manually reviewed by a human reviewer before it is posted online. You may embed your video into your website.
- Veoh Video Network: Online Videos / Internet Television
[Update (15 Feb 2010): According to various sources, Veoh appears to be closing.] When you upload your video to Veoh, it can also automatically syndicate that video to YouTube, MySpace and Google Video. You can also charge for your videos on a pay-per-view basis, although at the time this is written, this is on a limited case-by-case basis. Videos can be any length, file size or resolution. The videos can also be embedded on your website. Supported file formats include WMV, QuickTime and DivX, and the video and audio encoding allowed include MPEG-4 video codec, H264 Advanced Video Coding (QuickTime 7), Sorenson Video 3 (QuickTime 5), H263 Video Codec, Windows Media Video 8 and 9, MPEG-1. You can organize your videos into channels. Unlike some of the other video hosts, this network uses a peer-to-peer transfer system to send your video to its viewers; that is, when your viewers watch the show using the Veoh player, the player also uses their bandwidth to transfer videos to others.
- JumpCut
[Update: JumpCut has closed.] Yahoo's JumpCut provides video hosting for shows up to 100 MB in file size. I can't seem to find information on the maximum duration (if any) that they impose on your clip. The online video editor allows your videos to be remixed, clipped, have transitions, titles and effects added to it, etc. It supports the upload of following video formats: MPG, MPEG, MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, RM, and 3GP. For audio tracks, MP3, WAV, Ogg, and AIFF are supported.
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