YouTube Alternatives?

Hirudov said:
Actually YouTube doesn't want to screw creators, but they'll do it if that's what's needed to keep the business viable and going. They want to earn money and the most profitable way to do it for now is to gather creators with the revenue share model. It works for 10+ years now, not as much as AdSense itself, but it's proven to work. It happens sometimes a mess arises, but they do their best to calm it down and have as many advertisers (the ones that pay most of the bills) as possible. You can read some first hand information on reddit where a YouTube employee did an AMA yesterday and shared many details of the current situation and the future.
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Do you have a link to the reddit interview, I never go to reddit don't really know how to navigate inside there
 
KiddieToysReview said:
Do you have a link to the reddit interview, I never go to reddit don't really know how to navigate inside there
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You can read it at reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/7krq9u/ama_request_the_redditor_engineer_who_works_at/
Many topics are touched, including the ElsaGate and why it happened at first place. Read also the other people comments, if you have the time. They are really long though.
 
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I wonder if 2018 will be the year in which some new competitor finally steps up? Youtube is like WWE without a worthy WCW to compete with.
 
Hirudov said:
Actually YouTube doesn't want to screw creators, but they'll do it if that's what's needed to keep the business viable and going. They want to earn money and the most profitable way to do it for now is to gather creators with the revenue share model. It works for 10+ years now, not as much as AdSense itself, but it's proven to work. It happens sometimes a mess arises, but they do their best to calm it down and have as many advertisers (the ones that pay most of the bills) as possible. You can read some first hand information on reddit where a YouTube employee did an AMA yesterday and shared many details of the current situation and the future.
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I don’t have a simple answer. But think about MySpace and how powerful that was. Then Facebook came around and suddenly there was a huge migration. That will how it has to be for a new viable alternative.
 
Gaijillionaire said:
I don’t have a simple answer. But think about MySpace and how powerful that was. Then Facebook came around and suddenly there was a huge migration. That will how it has to be for a new viable alternative.
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Eh, I never understood Myspace even when it was new. It was like... this bizzare mess with background images and music playing and animated gifs all over the place. I think Facebook kicked Myspace's a** because Facebook is basically 'Myspace if Myspace made sense'.
 
There is no platform that can compete with YouTube in all genres, but there are competitors for individual genres.
Small, funny clips: Facebook
Artistic, high quality videos: Vimeo
Gaming: Twitch
Reviews: Amazon

Probably more, that I'm not aware of?

I'm partly a reviewer so I also use Amazon Video. Had a phone call with Amazon 2 months ago, they convinced me to join their program so now I upload all my Reviews to YouTube and Amazon.
 
Facebook is great for trailers or small sketches but I personally don't think it is anywhere near YouTube's level yet but it is certainly improving.
 
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