๐ Castr vs. Rutube
Rutube is much more popular than Castr.
Rutube is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.
Castr is more popular in France, Denmark, and Bulgaria.
Type
About
Castr is a cloud-based live video streaming and hosting platform that provides multistreaming and transcoding.
It provides multistreaming to over 30 destinations, including YouTube,
Facebook, and
Twitch, multi-CDN delivery, RTMP and SRT ingest, live-to-VOD recording, paywall and instream ad monetization, and pre-recorded streaming that broadcasts a scheduled video file as a live stream.
Rutube is a Russian video hosting platform positioned as a local alternative and functional clone of YouTube for publishing and watching user-generated video content.
It supports video uploads and live streams, channel subscriptions, recommendations and search, comments and likes, advertising-based monetization for creators, and content moderation aligned with Russian regulations.
Headquarters
Pricing
(2 streams, 6 multistream destinations) $19.99/month
(2 streams, 10 multistream destinations) $49.99/month
(5 streams, 20 multistream destinations) $199.99/month
(10 streams, 30 multistream destinations) $349.99/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ๐ฅ Second most popular in Russia in the Video Platforms category.
- ๐ฅ Third most popular in Belarus in the Video Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
๐๏ธ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,046,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.




