There are many sites which provide you online video streaming to burn your free time. However, if you want to share a video with a friend, and you do not have any idea how to do that, don’t worry. This article has some of the best methods you can use to share videos online privately as well as publicly. It doesn’t matter where your friend is, if your friend has an internet connection, he/she can access and watch your video without any problem.

Best Sites to Share Videos Online

There are a couple of sites that you can use to share your videos online. Here is a list of the best sites that you can use.

1. YouTube

YouTube is one of the best sites that you use to share your videos online. It doesn’t matter whether you have a small 30 seconds clip or 3 hours video, you can certainly use YouTube to share your videos with friends or anybody else. You can share your videos with friends, family, office colleagues or anybody else. The best thing about YouTube is your videos may never get deleted. However, if you use any copyrighted music or clip, you might encounter problems.

There are four things you will have while uploading a video and those are Public, Unlisted, Private, and Scheduled.

If you select Public, it will be visible to everyone. If you select Unlisted, it will be visible by anyone, but the search result won’t show it. If you select Private, others cannot get your videos directly from YouTube. Users can find the video only when you have shared it with someone. The last option is scheduled. It will let you publish your video whenever you want.

2. Facebook

Undoubtedly, Facebook is the most popular social networking site, and almost every internet user has a Facebook account. If you are reading this post, chances are you already have a Facebook account. If so, you can use that account to share your videos with anybody. It doesn’t matter whether someone is on Facebook or not, you can certainly use Facebook to share your videos with anybody. The best part of Facebook is that you can include multiple videos in a single post. Therefore, you do not have to worry about multiple links for multiple videos. Talking about privacy, you will get several options including Public, Friends, Friends Except, Only me, Specific Friends, and more others.

Public: Your video will be visible to everyone publicly. It doesn’t matter whether someone is in your Facebook friend list or not.

Friends: Only your Facebook friends can view your videos.

Friend Except: If you do not want to allow someone or some people to watch your video, you can use this option. After choosing it, you need to enter the friend’s name on the list.

Only Me: This option is good when you need to store some videos privately on Facebook. The videos under this privacy will not be visible to anyone except you.

Specific Friends: If you want to allow only a couple of friends to watch your videos, you can make use of this option.

Apart from that, you can share videos in a group as well. The only thing you should remember is the quality of your video file will be reduced after uploading it. Apart from that, Facebook seems to be a very good solution to share videos online with friends or anybody else.

3. Vimeo

Vimeo is yet another awesome platform to share your videos with friends. Although Vimeo has a free version, it comes with some limitations. Being said that, the free version of Vimeo is good when you have some small clips to share with the internet users. You can upload 500MB of videos per week and 5GB in total. However, if you purchase a paid plan, you will have better options and functionalities. While uploading a video, Vimeo offers several options, and those are-

Anyone can see this video: If you want to allow everyone to watch your video, you can use this option.

Only I can see this video: If you have some clips to store online, you can find this option useful.

Only people I follow can see this video: On Vimeo, you can follow other users. If you want to share something to your followers, you can utilize this option.

Only people with a password can see this video: If you choose this option, you will be able to set a password, and you need to share that password with others if you want to allow someone to watch your video.

Only people I choose can see this video: While uploading, you can choose this option if you want to select particular people to watch your clip.

Apart from that, there are two more options, and those are Hide this video from Vimeo and Only people with the private link. If you are fine with all these options and pricing, you can certainly use Vimeo to share your video online.

4. Cloud Storage

Cloud storage is also known as Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc. are pretty good options that you can use to share your video. You need to upload your videos to those cloud storage and share the link with anyone. This is even possible to allow people to download your video if you want.

Considering everything, YouTube seems to be a very good choice since it comes with all the useful options and the whole thing is available for free.