Discover a city through the people who live there.
CityTube gathers real videos from a city’s residents — events, food, nightlife, local voices — and gives every city a home you can explore three ways: by category, as an archive, and by place.
Currently free to explore · being developed and tested in selected cities
The Sun View for Groningen — the front page of every city on CityTube.
One city at a time.
Pick a city
Choose how to explore
Browse by category in the Sun View, work through the full archive in the List View, or take the geographic route in the Map View. Same videos, three ways in.
- Sun View— Explore by categories
- List View— Browse all videos
- Map View— Explore on the map
Watch, recommend, add your own
Videos play from YouTube. Sign in to recommend the ones worth seeing, join the comments, or paste a link into Add Your Video to put your own video on the city’s wheel.
Start at the centre of the city.
The Sun View is every city’s front page. Its categories orbit the city itself — choose one and that part of the city opens in the archive. At the centre sits the city’s welcome video, and beside it the local time and weather.
- Local Voices
- Local Services
- Official
- City Life
- Events
- Food & Drinks
- What to Visit
- Nightlife
- Black Hole
Everything the city has posted, in one place.
The List View is the city’s archive. Featured videos lead, trending follows, then everything the city has — filtered by category and time, from today to all time, sorted by most recent, most viewed or recommended. Search when you already know what you’re looking for.
The city, by place.
A city is geography as much as it is categories. The Map View is CityTube’s geographic way in — the city’s map above its featured and trending videos — and the view we are building out next: an interactive map with video pins, clustering and filtering is in development.
We’re just getting started.
The three views are the foundation. CityTube is being built, city by city, into a social video platform for the people who live in and love their cities. Here is what we’re working on.
User Dashboard
Your personal area: your cities, your videos, saved items and activity — without duplicating the public city page.
CityPulse
A compact daily pulse of what is active in a city: updates, the vote of the day, and what changed since your last visit.
City Circle
The social layer: follow people, add friends and share videos directly.
CityBattles
City-versus-city votes with deadlines, results and rankings — and invitations to bring your city out to vote.
CityClips
A fast feed of short clips, linked from where they already live, with the city as the context.
Personalisation & notifications
Follow cities, save videos, and get summaries that bring you back to what changed.