> I'm pretty sure that anyone with millions of subscribers would be bankrupt instantly. It would be interesting to see a napkin calculation on this, because I

> I'm pretty sure that anyone with millions of subscribers would be bankrupt instantly. It would be interesting to see a napkin calculation on this, because I highly doubt this is true. Bandwidth cost and video compression are both a lot better these days than people think, and if you could cut the middle man out of advertising (which you might could if you have millions of viewers) I think the benefit would be significant. Of course, YouTube does not only provide bandwidth and servers. They provide a "platform", not in the technical sense but in the broader sense. They have well working apps on all mobile platforms, they have a social network, they have editing tools and redundancy, they have so many benefits that you'd really have to think twice before taking them on. Your idea of a strike is interesting, while I doubt it would happen I would love for content creators to team up and make common demands.