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Video hosting is a service that permits you to upload video clips to a website. The video host then stores the video on its server, and then displays the various types of code to allow others to view that video.



Video hosting services have become very popular due to the advent of blogs, forums, and other interactive pages.





Due to the huge market for camera phones there has been an increase in the supply of user-generated video. Making a DVD to show to friends at home, are inappropriate to the low resolution and high volume of camera phone clips. But the broadband Internet connections are suitable to serving the quality of video shot on mobile phones. Generally most people do not own web servers, and this has created demand for user-generated video content hosting. Fulfilling this need is the recent addition of the YouTube.