Finally tired of YouTube? Well, the internet has become filled with niche video sites that take the concept that YouTube perfected and try to improve upon it.


Monster Dare

A video spot to watch people perform dares. Create a dare for you or your friends. Do a dare, or sponsor a dare here.

That’s exactly right. For everyone who spends all of their time on YouTube trying to find the stupidest stunts of the day, this is for you. I wish they had more videos, and I wonder how many people actually “bid” on these dares but all in all it’s a great site to see the best of human drama.

[monster dare]


Funny Or Die

Superbad – Cop Car Confessions – Officers Slater & Michaels

Made for the web videos featuring celebrities, comedians and you.

Will Ferrel’s heavily funded site for comedians and other funny creative types. If you like it, vote it as funny — if not, kill it. Social voting meets YouTube.

[funny or die]


Current.tv

Create a video, create an advertisement, create a documentary, end up on honest to goodness television. Current.tv has been around for a while, but I mention it because it’s a fantastic change of pace from the usually “frivolous” content of YouTube.

[current.tv]


Video Detective

Movie Trailers galore. You can view pretty much every trailer imaginable, many of which are in HD quality. It’s a whole lot better than that shaky handi-cam footage on YouTube.

[video detective]


VideoJug


VideoJug: How To Perform The Perfect Golf Swing

One of our sponsors and a great source for How To videos.

[videojug]


Web 2.0 Roundup

There are a ton of sites out there trying to redo YouTube’s model. It is going to be pretty difficult for any of them to be successful as general interest video providers, however, these niche sites have a chance as long as they recognize that their value is not being the best content provider but out doing YouTube’s ability to provide particular types of content.