Members submit embedded videos from other websites, such as YouTube and Google Video, which are then ranked according to a social-voting system similar to and inspired by Digg. Nicknamed the Sift, VideoSift aims to provide its users with the best available online video content through a consistent and attractive interface, responding to the problems of videos being scattered among many different sources, each having arguably difficult or unintuitive user interfaces.
Users upload embedded videos from other platforms like YouTube and Google Video. These are then ranked using a social-voting system similar to Digg, which is known as Sift. The goal of VideoSift is to provide its users with the best online video content through an organized interface that simplifies navigation among various sources with potentially complex user interfaces.