Crypto Based Video Platforms
Crypto currencies have opened new avenues for new many centralized and decentralized video platforms out there. In this list we going to look into them and what do they offer and their features. If you are searching for a Crypto Multicoin wallets to hold these tokens & coins read my other article.
DTube
Probably the most promising alternative to YouTube in my opinion is DTube. Because it has a strong model behind it that can sustain itself to certain degree at least. DTube is part of the Steem system, which contains blogs and other stuff that allow publishers to get Crypto Currency known as Steem from their posts and people are able to trade it around or give it to other users.
- Streaming: Yes
- *Monetization: *Yes
- *Crypto: **Steem & SteemDollar
- Pro Freespeech: Yes
- Mobile Friendly: N/A
- Upload Limits: No Size limit, but all videos will be put into 720p regardless of quality
- *Website: **https://d.tube/
Dlive.io
Another platform based on steem, which is lot more orientated on live streaming that D.Tube is and also i would argue its more based on gaming type of content and might have different audience from D.Tube so its advised to upload in both platforms. Dlive in many ways is the superior platform of the two based on my own experiences, because it uploads lot faster and its less glitch (Also overlay and everything is just better looking)
- Streaming: Yes
- *Monetization: *Yes
- *Crypto: **Steem & SteemDollar
- Pro Freespeech: Yes
- Mobile Friendly: Yes
- Upload Limits: N/A
- *Website: **https://dlive.io/?ref=Osakaghoul
Viuly
If you are looking for centralized video platform fueled by Ethereum token and live streaming service you might want to give Viuly a chance. It seems to have a huge Russian audience on the platform, but there is bunch of English and other content lying around there as well.
- Streaming: Yes
- *Monetization: *Yes
- *Crypto: **VIU (ETC20 Token)
- Pro Freespeech: N/A
- Mobile Friendly: N/A
- Upload Limits:
- *Website: **https://viuly.io/r/K10950195b9ee54c
- Streaming: Yes
- *Monetization: *Yes
- *Crypto: **Minds Token (ETC20 Token)
- Pro Freespeech: Yes
- Mobile Friendly: Yes
- Upload Limits: None to my understanding
- *Website: *https://www.minds.com/register?referrer=Sugi
- Streaming: Yes
- *Monetization: *Yes
- Crypto:* TUBE
- Pro Freespeech: N/A
- Mobile Friendly: Yes
- Upload Limits: 5GB Per upload & Minimum quality 360p
- *Website: *https://bit.tube/dashboard
Still in beta and not open for all in public (you can sign-up for beta invite). There are interesting aspects of this video platform such as you can view ads separately from user videos to get Flixx tokens. So ads are not associated with channels themselves, which might bring huge amount of advertisers in. There are some beta clips about it on YouTube and it looks very promising so far.
- Streaming: N/A
- *Monetization: *Yes
- Crypto:* FLIXX (ETC20 Token)
- *Pro Freespeech: *N/A
- *Mobile Friendly: *N/A
- *Upload Limits: *N/A
- *Website: *https://flixxo.com/
LBRY is a free, open, and community-run digital marketplace, You own your data. You control the network. Indeed, you are the network. So from the tagline you can understand its fundamentally very different video platform since you download the client to your PC. I'm not best person to explain this so you better look into videos about legalities and how this platform functions.
- Streaming: No
- *Monetization: *Yes (tips)
- Crypto:* LBRY Credits
- *Pro Freespeech: *N/A
- *Mobile Friendly: *N/A
- *Upload Limits: *N/A
- *Website: **https://lbry.io
Another crypto based video platform which uses ETC20 Token. However you have to pay for the uploads so its more aimed towards perhaps Crypto Business type of channels. The player seems alright but i wouldn't consider it anything truly outstanding. I'm not sure how i feel about the business model for long run.
- Streaming: No
- *Monetization: *Yes
- Crypto:* VIEW Token
- *Pro Freespeech: *N/A
- *Mobile Friendly: *N/A
- *Upload Limits: *None apparently
- *Website: *https://view.ly
So TaTaTu is not a self-publishing video platform its a place where you can watch movies, sports, esports, TV-shows and Celebrity content in exchange for getting paid in TaTaTu Tokens. It's a ETC20 based token (Ethereum) and you will get personal wallet on October 1st 2018 and you can do withdrawals when you have gathered 200 Tokens. Each new sign-up will get 50 tokens via link below also your referrals are able to harvest you coins by watching content on the site or via applestore app.(Currently some country limitations, but VPN will help)
- Monetization:Yes
- Crypto:* TaTaTu Token
- *Mobile Friendly: *Yes
- *Website: *https://beta.tatatu.com/?tid=e395b896-3e9e-4031-b385-fa5505f9de37
Rize is a mobile only App for sharing videos, which has its own Token and other inside currency on their platform. Not much is told about it in their own website so i can't help you with details here
- Streaming: N/A
- Monetization: Yes
- Crypto: N/A
- *Pro Freespeech: */A
- Mobile Friendly: N/A
- *Upload Limits: *None apparently
- Website: https://t.co/GcCL9Z9PUO
Paratii platform is currently on its beta phase and you can register account and wallet on the site, but its heavily in the works still. You will get tokens when you sign-up currently.
- Streaming: No
- *Monetization: *Yes
- *Crypto: *
- *Pro Freespeech: *N/A
- *Mobile Friendly: *N/A
- *Upload Limits: *There is cost per upload
- *Website: *https://lab.paratii.video/
I will keep updating this article as new video platforms arise there are couple in beta right now, but if you didn't find something pleasing here there are also other non-crypto YouTube Alternatives here. I'm making a Crypto streaming platform article next so stay tuned for that.