Hosts - Portals - Web sites for browsing and watching Internet video
Use portals for multi-purpose, multi-channel, multi-producer online video content; these sites serve a variety of purposes and host content aggregated from a wide variety of sources; have their own interfaces or guides to their content, but see the
Search or
Topics section for different ways to discover this content from multiple portals; see also the
Mix section for sites that mash together hosted and unhosted content
- Major: View a large amount of video from a wide variety of production organizations with much free content; bring together diverse content in one interface; premium plan may be available--see premium section; see also search, user, channels , topics
- Hulu: multi-channel video host; provides movies,TV shows, clips, and Web-produced video from a variety of providers; free access to a wide range of content; subscription service called Hulu Plus allows access to more TV shows and movies
- You Tube: video host with wide-ranging content; provides video of a wide range of content, producer, and length, including user-supplied content; owned by Google; free access to much content; Movies section shows pay-per-view movies and free movies; site includes channels from diverse partners (e.g., C-SPAN, The White House); user-supplied content
- Google Video: multi-site video search and hosting; pre-dating Google's acquisition of You Tube in 2006, Google hosted many videos; this site now serves as a search engine and host to those videos as well as videos from YouTube as well as many other video hosts
- Crackle: TV shows and movies; full-length, free, and on-demand viewing of movies and TV shows; genres include action, sci-fi, horror, crime, and comedy
- Locast: Local Broadcast TV; free digital access to broadcast television stations in selected markets
- Like Television: classic TV and movies, cartoons, and classic commercials
- Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive; a library of free movies, films, and videos; thousands of digital movies; classic full-length films, daily alternative news broadcasts, cartoons, concerts, and more; part of the Internet Archive, an Internet library offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital form; subsections include animation, arts, community video, computers, ephemeral films, news, public affairs, Prelinger Archives, spirituality, sports, television, video games, and vlogs
- Pluto TV: free streaming video; includes live tv, on demand, television, movies
- Popcornflix: movies and documentaries; from Screen Media Ventures, LLC, one of the leading motion picture distributors of theatrical, home video, digital and television both in the U.S. and internationally; over 1500 movies
- TV Index: Television stations; many have live feeds of their broadcast
- TV Streema: Web-based tv stations; from streema.com
- User: View a variety of user-supplied content; these sites are either primarily focused on or offer a significant amount of user-supplied content
- You Tube: much user-supplied content; provides video of a wide range of content, producer, and length, including user-supplied content; owned by Google; free access to much content
- Vimeo: supports video sharing
- Premium: Pay by subscription or pay-per-view plans to view movies and TV; these hosts present a variety of content accessible by people paying for a subscription plan or pay-per-view session; in some cases these premium plans are add-ons to free offerings on the site; in other cases, the sites are entirely based on paying to view; see the Search section for ways to quickly browse for content on these sites and compare prices
- Amazon Prime: subscription plan for streaming movies and TV shows
- Amazon Instant: pay-per-view streaming movies or TV shows
- Apple TV: stream original series and others
- CBS: All Access
- CinemaNow: rentals on demand
- CuriosityStream: on demand; science, technology, civilization and the human spirit
- Disney+: Disney Pixar Marvel Star Wars National Geographic
- Google Play: Buy movies or tv shows to stream
- Hulu Plus: premium service of video host; provides movies,TV shows, clips, and Web-produced video from a variety of providers; free access to a wide range of content; subscription service called Hulu Plus allows access to more TV shows and movies
- iTunes: multimedia store of Apple
- HBO Now: streaming access to HBO; includes original programming and to movies that are offered on the traditional HBO channels
- HBO Max: stream HBO
- MUBI: presents subscription-based access to cinema; offers art-house style films; some free content
- Netflix: subscription-based streaming media service; access to a range of movies,TV shows, and Web-produced content; the interface is designed poorly for navigating and choosing content; for a somewhat competent way to navigate this, see instantwatcher.com search site for Netflix content
- Peacock: free and premium content from NBCUniversal
- Quibi: phone-oriented media
- vudu: pay-per-view streaming media
- WB Instant: subscription-based streaming media service; shows archives of Warner Brothers archives including tv and film, including Warner Bros., MGM, RKO, New Line, Monogram, Allied Artists, Lorimar and more
- YouTube Movies: Pay-per-view movies available; some free movies
- YouTube Red: Pay for ad-free videos, saving offline, and background play on YouTube
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