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YouTube copycats: Indian video sharing sites October 3, 2007

Posted by Pallav Sharda in : Video Sharing , trackback

Here is a thought: I think there are more people trying to start a video-sharing website than the people actually submitting videos. And where better to achieve this glorious distinction than our own motherland, brimming with starry-eyed internet entrepreneurs.

Now that you can purchase an off-the-shelf script to jump start a YouTube-clone website for only 10$ (If you think I’m kidding, check out vShare.in), there is a rapidly growing pile of indistinguishable Indian video-sharing sites. Being a fearless internet-warrior, I thought I’ll review all of them (how many could there be?) but was soon overwhelmed by the stampede of half-baked sites. Some of them are going down (and then coming back up again) so fast that I don’t think its useful to waste any reviews on them yet. Hence I thought of another solution- I’ll maintain a list of them here, and assume by default that every site on this list is not going to survive. If time says otherwise, I’ll move them off the list and give them a new, independent review.

In general, all these sites have unoriginal content (hacked movie clips, serials etc). The user interface is almost identical (thanks to 10$ scripts from vShare.in), user base is insignificant and there is no business model except site advertising.Bell Icon A word of caution- some of these sites are replete with adult content haphazardly thrown here and there. So don’t explore if you cant handle it!

Of course, there may be a chance that I’ve thrown the baby out with the bathwater here. So if you think any of these sites deserves a better treatment, let me know. Feel free to send in additions to this list too.

Asterisk Icon Note: Some well-deserving websites have been purposely omitted in the list above because I had already spent precious time giving them independent reviews before getting overwhelmed. Check them out on the eIndia ‘Lists’ page (’Video Sharing Sites’ subsection).

Comments»

1. Ravi - October 24, 2007

There is one more to the list, its called layfile.com

Thanks,
Ravi

2. sam - November 5, 2007

A Good copy DesiSexTube Indian Adult Video sharing.
http://www.desisextube.com

3. anil - November 8, 2007

visit this http://www.26thjanuary.com

4. anil - November 8, 2007

check this as well http://www.indianreunited.com/videos and http://www.indianreunited.com/friends

5. eIndia - November 8, 2007

Sam/Anil,
Thanks for the great links. LayFile and 26thJanuary were already covered in separate reviews (before I got inundated and realized there were too many such sites!).
~eIndia Moderator

6. Indian video sharing sites - April 15, 2008

Hi,
I have compiled a list of more than 400 of YouTube-like sites with their niche on “I like sharing videos”.com
If you’re interested in the ‘India’ niche, check for instance http://www.ilikesharingvideos.com/video-sharing-sites/en/niche/india/
And if you’re more broadly interested in video sharing, be it how to make you own YouTube clone or how to get money from your videos, you should give it an eye to that resource site.
Cheers

7. gj - August 15, 2008

Hey guys i think you missed fsiblog.com,debonairblog.com all amazing ones for desi stuff


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