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One thing that is impressive about YouTube versus other social media platforms has been YouTube's willingness to help content creators to make money. There's a
by manachar 10y ago
One thing that is impressive about YouTube versus other social media platforms has been YouTube's willingness to help content creators to make money.
There's a path for people with a minimum of marketing savvy to start making revenue off of their videos.
Compare this to Facebook/Instagram which requires individuals to find other ways of getting paid while those platforms profit directly off of your content.
Makes me wish for a "cooperative" Facebook where all content creators (posts, pictures, etc) get a slice of the ad revenue much like YouTube.
- e2e8 10y agoOne thing that I have noticed recently is that some youtube creators from the gaming genre are moving to twitch because twitch stream subscribers are an even more direct way to make money.
- infinitesoup 10y agoYouTube has an equivalent of that too: https://support.google.com/youtubegaming/answer/6304294?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtubegaming/answer/6304294?hl=e...
- scrollaway 10y agoTwitch, unlike YouTube, has a ton of experience dealing with gamers. They have direct contact with their streamers, organize events (TwitchCon, esports events etc). The Amazon acquisition has been incredible to twitch so far, too. The Amazon Prime/Twitch Prime promotion has gotten streamers a ton of income and has been overwhelmingly welcomed by the twitch community. YouTube, in the mean time, has a broken DMCA/content-id/copyright claim system - a constant source of complaints with no support channel to actually help. I find it fascinating how, in YouTube competition, where Vimeo and DailyMotion are failing, Twitch is succeeding because they are simply focused on their strength and advantage, rather than try to just provide the same service with a nonexistant community. And now with Amazon behind them, they have the money to double down on it.
- dmoy 10y agoI'd be surprised if twitch didn't get strong armed into doing a similar DMCA content id copyright deal to stave off attacks from riaa and friends. The issue there is a legal one :/
- offa 10y agoIs Vimeo failing? I don't know much about it, but doesn't it have its own niche?
- scrollaway 10y agoIt does, same as DailyMotion. But it failed as a YouTube competitor.
- frik 10y agoWatching the scene, it looks like some creators recently moved back from Twitch to Youtube.
- madprops 10y agoI sometimes think of an advanced state of facebook where people actually get paid by how many legit likes they get. This would give value to likes like some sort of currency.
- aantix 10y agoFacebook has to solve the content piracy problem that they have. Drives me crazy when an original video goes viral and then you see other pages upload the video as their own.. I wish there were human editors matching videos, giving credit to the original author's page/upload. At least tackle the videos with 1,000,000+ views..
- rebootthesystem 10y agoYes, absolutely. If I share a video on FB I always take the time to try and dig-up the original source. It usually ends-up being on YouTube. Not that hard to do. I wish FB didn't obfuscate and people took the time to do this. If anything because it might represent revenue for the author and they deserve to receive it.
- rebootthesystem 10y agoFor the life of me I can't understand why anyone would down-vote my comment. Please educate me, what's wrong with my statement? I don't get it.
- 1_listerine_pls 10y agoFB has no reason to ban it.
- brazzledazzle 10y agoTime for everyone to start uploading RIAA and MPAA content.
- bryanrasmussen 10y agoI guess it should be relatively easy ( for FB ) to do something automated to detect copied videos - at least to where the later videos uploaded would have to do the same kind of tricks you see on youtube that decrease video quality when people are trying to sneak in copyrighted content (tricks like putting a big frame with some pictures on it around the actual video content). On edit: take back relatively easy and say pretty doable, if they cared.
- nowayyeah 10y agoI wonder if vid.me will succeed.