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After exhausting YouTube, Vimeo and College Humor you might believe you have seen everything Internet video has to offer. Fortunately, there is an entire world of interesting video sites out there offering something for everyone from documentary film makers to animation nuts.

Here are a few of my favorites:


Jumpcut

Video Editing and Remixing

Jumpcut is a fantastic site for anyone who likes to Remix videos. Jumpcut gives you tools to edit and produce your own video and make it available to a community of other producers who can then turnaround and add their own touches. I wish there was an easier way to get the video out of jumpcut to be used on other sharing sites, but regardless it is a really fun way to use certain kinds of content.


Game Videos

Video Games Trailers and News

Game Videos, now a part of Ziff Davis’ 1up brand is a video site devoted to video game news, reviews and trailers. Game Videos also allows normal users to upload gameplay footage, everything from fastest completion times to remixes of their favorite moments. This is a fantastic site for any game lover.


Reel Time

Video on Demand

Reeltime is a video on demand alternative for sites like Netflixs. You can download (rent) movies, television shows and view trailers. Unfortunately, while all of this content comes in HD-Quality you need to pay even to watch trailers. They do have a small amount of free content, but if you are looking for free access to the latest blockbuster your time would be better spent elsewhere.


AniBoom

Animation

Watch more cool animation and creative cartoons at aniBoom

Aniboom is a site for professional and semi-professional animators to show off their work and market it to producers. Aniboom is strongly focused on helping animators find ways to monetize their work. These aren’t YouTube quality shorts, all of the videos on Aniboom are exceptionally well produced and are a great way to spend a lazy afternoon.


Big Think

Leading Thinkers

The best way to describe Big Think is a more social version of TED. Big Think collects interviews with some of the world’s leading thinkers across a variety of industries and lets you respond to them with your own videos or in the comments. This is one of those ideas that would be really powerful at scale, but as it stands it’s a little lonely in the halls of Big Think.


Engage Media

Social Justice

Engage Media is focused on social justice and environmental issues facing the Asia-Pacific region and Australia. There content consists interviews and documentary style features. They offer an embeddable player and downloads if you want to take a higher resolution version.


TV One World

Documentaries

TV One World is both a video sharing site and an aggregator. It features videos geared towards anyone “concerned about a better world.” What this amounts to is citizen journalism and documentaries from submitters across the globe. TV One World also allows you to recommend videos from other sharing sites to be posted there. It is a great collection for anyone interested in documentary film making.


Viddler

In-line commenting and annotation

Viddler is a video sharing site in the vein of YouTube. What really seperates it from the pack is that it was the first major sharing network to allow in-line commenting and annotations. For certain kinds of content, this adds a new and refreshing layer of interactivity. Video bloggers like iJustine have switched to this platform for just that reason.


12 Seconds

Short Format

What can you say in 12 seconds? If you want to find out, take a gander at 12 second TV. As sites based around a gimmick go, this one is actually pretty entertaining. You’re not going to find too much clever discourse in these bite-sized vignettes, but you might find enough to keep you entertained for at least 12 seconds.


5min

DIY

5 minutes is a site based around teaching normal people how to do a wide range of common, and occasionally extremely uncommon tasks. Whether you want a travel guide to your next vacation getaway or you have a pesky CD-ROM drive that won’t open, this site has a video for you.


Kaltura

Video White-Label

Kaltura is the video site’s video site. Kaltura is a video white-label, offering software that enables businesses and web content producers to integrate video capabilities in their sites. Their software lets you upload, share and annotate videos and provides managed video hosting solutions to companies that are trying to add more interactive offerings.

What are your favorites?

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