If you had any doubt that video is hot right now, chew on this: the top 10 videos on YouTube have been viewed a collective 307.7 million times. In February, Emre Sokullu identified over 60 major players in the video space in our Online Video Industry Index. Meanwhile the video category at SimpleSpark lists 499 video-related web apps, many of which are long-tail gallery hosting sites like YouTube.
With so many video sites out there, how can anyone possibly keep track of all the great videos coming out? You definitely don't want to miss this leg humping dog or these guys jumping over office cubicles, right? The answer is video aggregation sites that attempt to figure out the best videos each day from across the online videosphere, so that you can be sure you never miss another Poopy Pavarotti video. Er, right. We've highlighted some of the best video aggregation sites below in no particular order.

As a way to compare these sites, I'll include what each site rates as the top 5 videos for the past 24 hours (where applicable). Please note that I did not pre-screen all of these videos, so watch at your own risk -- some may be NSFW.
Dabble is a site that lets users organize playlists of their favorite videos. Their site searches over 21 million clips (and the number is constantly on the rise). Using their playlist data, they keep a list of the most popular videos. Most of their top videos come from YouTube.
Video Bomb is a Digg-style social bookmarking site with an emphasis on video. Unfortunately, Video Bomb doesn't really seem to work like Digg, showing only the most watched, most bookmarked, and newest videos... not the most recently popular. Below are the 5 most bookmarked videos on the site.
Vidmeter creates a daily top 200 ranking of videos from a number of top video sharing sites. The lists are categorized and searchable, and each video has a viewable traffic history. Lists for the past week are available on the site, as well as an all-time list. Vidmeter also operates the video stat tracking service Vidmetrix.
VDIDDY lists the top 12 (or so) videos each day for YouTube, Yahoo!, MySpace, Metacafe, Grouper, Google Video, Daily Motion, Break, and AOL Video. For some of these sites it looks like it just grabs the most viewed videos as reported by that site, for others it is less clear what VDIDDY is doing.
WeShow is a human powered video guide that organizes videos into more categories than I can repeat here. Not surprisingly, 9 of the top 10 videos over the past 7 days are in the "Sexy" category. Though all are from YouTube, so none are too risqué, be warned that these aren't likely something you boss wants you taking a gander at during work hours. Note that WeShow uses their own, original titles and descriptions for videos and not necessarily what the video was originally called on the sharing site it came from
Gloob.TV takes an editorial approach to video aggregation by publishing a daily selection of videos deemed the best by their team of editors. They post a large number of videos each day, so I'll list the most recent 5 at the time of this writing.
Mefeedia aggregates video blogs and web shows from over 15,000 websites and their index include 3.3 million episodes from over 24,000 different video feeds. Below are the top 5 most "faved" of the day.
Videosift is another Digg-style aggregator. But unlike Video Bomb, they actually do have a Digg-like daily front page. Below are the top 5 videos currently on the main page as of this writing.
StumbleUpon's Video page is an ever-changing snapshot of the videos that stumblers have given the thumbs up to. Their video page shows 24 recently stumbled videos, but can be refined by tag. Below is a selection of 5 recently stumbled clips.
reddit's [unofficial] media site is reddit for photos and videos, which of course means the day's top videos are chosen via reddit-style voting. Below are the top 5 currently on the site. Unlike most of the other sites in this round up, reddit media does not embed videos on their site, but instead links to outside sources.
The best Digg-style video aggregator, is of course Digg itself! Digg aggregates videos the same way it does news, and for videos from YouTube, Google, and Metacafe it plays them in a lightbox directly on the site (for others it just links out). Below are the top 5 newly popular videos at the time of this writing.
For the most part, each of the above sites takes a different approach to aggregating videos and sorting the signal from the noise from among the thousands of videos that are uploaded to sites every day. There appears to be very little cross over on these sites, so using them all will still leave you with an overwhelming number of videos. The trick is to find the one or two aggregators that work best for you (i.e., consistently finds videos that you enjoy).
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One thing still missing - a site with 5 good web shows. that's it.
I wrote about it here: http://pravdam.com/2007/08/20/can-someone-please-create-the-hbo-of-online-video/
Very nice list. Did you got a chance to look at uLinkx http://www.ulinkx.com/?
uLinkx aggregate videos from all major videos sharing websites.
Thanks for the review. Our home page is top faved, but our service is actually focused on personalized / social discovery of the video web.
Kfir - 5 "good" web shows? How about 100? Seriously, it all depends on what you are looking for. For example:
Web-based Sitcoms:
http://www.mefeedia.com/lists/269/
Travel:
http://www.mefeedia.com/lists/59/
Gardening:
http://www.mefeedia.com/lists/184/
Lots more where that came from - join our service and maybe you will find the 5 that you like. :)
Regards,
-Frank
CEO
Mefeedia.com
http://www.mefeedia.com/user/franks/
Thank you for linking to redditmedia.com. Actually that website is NOT run by reddit.com. I created it myself and they even do not know about it! ;)
You can read how the website was programmed at my blog, I give out full source code and instructions how to run your own site of this type:
Designing Reddit Media Website
Have fun,
Peteris Krumins
@Peteris: Thanks for the info, I've updated the post with a correction. :)
I'm quite surprised that you didn't mention the video feed features of Videobomb. Every video you submit or vote for gets added to your custom RSS feeds, which are then subscribable in any feed reader or Miro. (Both Videobomb and Miro are made by the Participatory Culture Foundation.) I wouldn't have much use for Videobomb without the feeds, but thanks to my own video channel I use it regularly.