YouTube is the largest social video sharing website out there, it has no competition at all and there are lot of wannabes’ out there trying to get a piece of YouTube’s mass audience.

It was about time that Desis came up with their own YouTube. There are number of sites out there but there are 3 that are very promising. ApnaTube.com, MeraVideo.com and 4Indian.tv

I am currently using ApnaTube and MeraVideo, both these seem to be very robust but it is hard to say if they will remain around in the long run. It is very expensive to run a video sharing website. The bandwidth costs can sky rocket and it is not easy to make money with the advertisements.

What do you find on these websites, well ApnaTube seems to have more videos than MeraVideo. Most of the videos are funny clips, music videos, party videos and some cricket clips.

ApnaTube is very slow as it doesn’t show you your video after you upload it. MeraVideo is more like YouTube where you can upload your video and watch it right away. Both these websites allow you to share videos with friends, post comments, share links and embedd videos on your websites.

I registered on both these websites yesterday because I am looking for a video sharing website that is not blocked in middle eastern countries, specially Dubai. YouTube is blocked in Dubai and other middle eastern countries for religious/cutlural reasons. I am planning on using these 2 websites for my desi social networking website ApunDesi.

Check out DesiMusicVids for excellent collection of desi music videos.