There are still a few good websites which have only handpicked collection of videos in its database, making the portal much more content focused than other popular video upload sites like YouTube. In this article, we will discuss more about such websites and how they still manage to reduce spammy videos and keep content focused.



Online videos were a rather unexplored territory until 2005, before the arrival of YouTube. YouTube revolutionized the online video scene by opening up a whole new world of video uploads and storage where netizens can share video files of various genre free of cost. In the next few months, the online video phenomenon caught up with netizens like a raging fire, who started using it to upload and share their personal video collections with people for fun, create their own amateur videos and albums, or even use it as a marketing vehicle to aggressively promote their online business. But, the biggest USP of YouTube was the relative ease with which one could upload and share videos in it. The procedure was so user-friendly to operate that even one grandmother could upload a couple of video clips in less than 5 minutes without seeking anybody assistance.

The main reason behind the success of online videos was that its emergence coincided with the broadband boom in many parts of the world, and the rise in popularity of social networking portals. With the phenomenal success of YouTube, other online video sites also started to make their entries into the internet, but most of them with selective domain and video preferences rather than following any type of video will do attitude like that of YouTube. As a result, now there are exclusive online video sites in the internet for categories ranging from entertainment, music, and movies to funny clips, sports, fashion etc, to name some of them. Some of the popular online video portals in the web today other than YouTube include Metacafe, Imteaz, Veoh, and Sharkle, to name a few.

However, do not assume that online video sites let users upload simply any video clips as they like into its server. The category of the online video clip matters a lot, so is its confirmation to the terms and conditions of a particular online video website. For example, some online video sites do not allow adult contents in its site, while some others explicitly specify which all categories they accept and which ones they do not. Any online video uploaded other than the ones permitted will be promptly deleted by the website in-house editors. As a matter of face, an uploaded video in an online video portal will be visible or searchable to the netizens only after has been approved by the website editor desk.