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The network effect isn't very relevant for video sites, because you can easily use a search engine to find videos across many sites all at once. Hey, I wonder
by gregknicholson 8y ago
The network effect isn't very relevant for video sites, because you can easily use a search engine to find videos across many sites all at once.
Hey, I wonder which search engine 90% of people use…
- jononor 8y agoWonder which video that search engine chooses to promote...
- quxbar 8y agowhen I'm looking up not-available-in-the-USA episodes of The Great British Bake Off? Usually Dailymotion, which even has chromecast pretty well integrated with their player.
- gregknicholson 8y agoThis is a good point. Even if you escape YouTube (which isn't quite a monopoly by itself) you'll still end up running into some other tentacle of the Google-kraken: Chromecast is Google's proprietary video transmission protocol.
- quxbar 8y agoRight, and they happily transmit pirate video to my TV as long as it isn't hosted by YouTube, because it's not like I was going to BUY all of those seasons - it's strictly better for their bottom line if I buy the chromecast and pirate.
- jplayer01 8y agoThat’s assuming most people use google to find videos to watch. It’s much more likely that through network effects, people arrive at YouTube through YT links given to them by friends and acquaintances, then they stay on YT. Looking through my WhatsApp groups, that’s entirely likely. Or people by default go to YT because that’s what they know, they’re already part of the YT community, they already have an account there, etc.