Start Your Tube is a web service through which users can create their own version of Youtube. Using Start Your Tube users can create a website on which they can host and share videos with others and have visitors upload videos to share with the world. Each user of Start Your Tube can create a customized url to use to point the world toward their video collection. Start Your Tube could be a great way for niche communities to share videos with each other. The homepage of the website users create is customizable allowing users to add images, logos, and customized color schemes.

Applications for Education
Creating a Start Your Tube website for a class could be a fun way for students and teachers to build a collection of videos relevant to a particular class. Teachers building a video website with Start Your Tube can avoid having students use other commercial video sharing websites where they might access questionable or irrelevant content. Teachers starting a video website can control who uploads videos to the website and restrict commenting.