YouTube was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. YouTube is the leader in online video, sharing original videos worldwide through a Web experience.

Metacafe is a social video site that algorithmically filters what appears on the site. Users and content producers are allowed to submit any videos they want but Metacafe uses its filtering algorithm VideoRank to choose the “most entertaining” and “high ...

Hulu is an online video provider held by NBC Universal, News Corporation, and, as of April 2009, Disney. The site focuses exclusively on professional content and does not take on YouTube directly as a viral video destination.

Dailymotion is a video sharing service website, based in Paris, France. Since February 18, 2008, the site supports video content that can play at 720p on an HD set, but the bit rate is significantly less than the 5–9 megabits for expected HD quality. As of April 2009, the site ...

Veoh: Open. Personalized. Free. TV. Veoh is an Internet TV service that gives viewers the power to easily discover, watch, and personalize their online viewing experience. With a simple broadband connection Veoh gives you free access to all of the great TV and film studio ...

As their third major undertaking, Skype and Kazaa founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are attempting to perfect IPTV with Joost. Joost is a p2p on demand video player that offers professional (legal) programming much like on your television, but whenever you want.

Google Inc. maintains an index of Websites and other online content, and makes this information freely available through its search engine to anyone with an Internet connection.

aniBoom is a cartoon aggregator with the hope of finding the next South Park from a community of animation enthusiasts. Much like the YouTube of Cartoons, aniBoom allows you to upload as many of your animations as you’d like and even has a revenue share plan to give back ...

Yahoo was founded in 1994 by Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang. It has since evolved into a major internet brand with search, content verticals, and other web services. Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo!), incorporated in 1995, is a global Internet brand.

Truveo is a video search engine acquired by AOL in January 2006. Re-launched in August of the same year, it claims to have an edge over competitors in the field of online video websites.