Is there a good alternative video host or platform to YouTube? I always worry about their fickle content management/censorship practices, and also just don't like the idea of massive centralization around Google.
What is the use case, does it need to be free as in beer? Cloudflare Streaming starts at $5/month for 1000 minutes stored and $1/1000 minutes streamed. Though I had to admit I had performance problems with their built in analytics API (and their support was unable/unwilling to look into it).
Sure there are plenty around.
Have you tried Vimeo? The community is not great, but the player is decent.