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You highly underestimate what it would take to run Youtube competition. The technical infrastructure and the amount of money that needs to be thrown at it is tr
by pavs 8y ago
You highly underestimate what it would take to run Youtube competition. The technical infrastructure and the amount of money that needs to be thrown at it is truly out of reach for 99.9% of the company out there. There are literally a handful of companies who have the technical chops and the money to start a Youtube competitor.
After more than a decade of investment, youtube only recently started becoming profitable. So even if a company has the money and the technical chops to start a youtube competition, they really need to think twice before going through this much trouble.
- 0x00000000 8y agoI think Amazon is the only one who can do it. They definitely have the capital, infrastructure, expertise, and already own Twitch
- pavs 8y agoMost likely, but Amazon's reputation with customer service they will do a piss poor job at it. I don't see Amazon doing it. To be fair I don't see any reasonably sane company going after Youtube, there is no market, there is no momentum. There are isolated niche scenarios and it's not worth the money or time for large companies.
- TylerE 8y agoGood thing for Amazon then that the only tech company with worse customer support is....Google.
- post_break 8y agoI think porn hub could do it.
- Intermernet 8y agoI initially thought that you were making a comment in jest, but then I realised that pornhub actually already have one of the world's largest and most reliable video streaming platforms. You're right.
- konraditurbe 8y agoThey do have a stigma attached, but they have the tech and knowhow. Maybe as a separate sub-company.
- MrMember 8y agoThey have the infrastructure and technical know how, but PornHub is able to make money because advertising for porn is a completely different beast from advertising on a general purpose video hosting site. You can use all sorts of invasive advertising and dark patterns on a porn site that nobody would put up with elsewhere.
- mcintyre1994 8y agoI'm pretty sure Facebook could do it technically. They just haven't figured out how to fill a feed with autoplay videos (presumably required to get convincing view counts) without making it utter trash. Maybe Netflix is well placed because they already have the ISP relationships and CDN set up, if they can figure a way to leverage that for user uploaded content? I doubt they're interested though.
- skinnymuch 8y agoIs there a source for YouTube being profitable? I’ve only ever seen people say maybe it’s profitable and also assumptions or hand waving of how YouTube saves a lot of money by being able to use Google’s infrastructure. I assumed to this day YouTube isn’t actually profitable.