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How could they possibly challenge a Monopoly like YouTube?

ALittleLight 7y ago
My perception is YouTube has a hostility toward independent creators, and this niche could be better served. 1. Copyright system is easy to abuse and harshly punishes people perceived as infringing. 2. Videos demonetized for unpredictable reasons. 3. Trending page is basically off limits to YouTubers in favor of corporate media. E.g. Logan Paul requires 11 million views to hit the trending page whereas ESPN requires 500k. Naturally ESPN trends much more than more popular YouTubers. httpss://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18642833/youtube-trending-coffee-break-pewdiepie-late-night-sports-highlights 4. YouTube's discovery system is opaque. I have a small YouTube channel and my most successful video has about half a million views. This video has worse metrics than my other videos proportionally but somehow gets recommended a lot whereas my other videos don't and I have no idea why. Conversely, imagine YouTube shared details about what metrics you need to hit to get recommended or surfaced in the search page. 5. Discovery. As a small channel, it's tough to get views. Why not gamify this: if you average X watch time and Y likes on 3 videos, we'll put your video in the suggestions for 100 people who wouldn't see it otherwise. There should be an easy way to see who is streaming too, which is difficult for some unknown reason. 6. Help with content creation. YouTube must know what people are searching for on YouTube and what search queries have good or bad results. Why not give that information to creators? I could check and see that X people search for Y, and Y has really weak results. Okay, great, if I like X, I can put together a video to answer the query and collect some sweet views helping me and YouTube.
- kkarakk 7y ago
  you do realize logan paul is ALSO a corporate creator right? there is a whole consortium of people that fund his antics in exchange for him shilling their stuff. It was an artificially created brand right from the beginning...Dude was a disney actor,why do you think his channel is indie in any way? your point stands but your choice of example is strange.
  - ALittleLight 7y ago
    I picked him just because his figures are mentioned exactly in the article. It's also true of more independent creators.
tigroferoce 7y ago
My 2 cents, as a user and not a creator. I'm deeply annoyed with YouTube and their policy of extracting any minute of possible attention from my eyes. I watch less and less YouTube and I would happily pay for quality contents.

My perception is YouTube has a hostility toward independent creators, and this niche could be better served. 1. Copyright system is easy to abuse and harshly punishes people perceived as infringing. 2. Videos demonetized for unpredictable reasons. 3. Trending page is basically off limits to YouTubers in favor of corporate media. E.g. Logan Paul requires 11 million views to hit the trending page whereas ESPN requires 500k. Naturally ESPN trends much more than more popular YouTubers. httpss://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18642833/youtube-trending-coffee-break-pewdiepie-late-night-sports-highlights 4. YouTube's discovery system is opaque. I have a small YouTube channel and my most successful video has about half a million views. This video has worse metrics than my other videos proportionally but somehow gets recommended a lot whereas my other videos don't and I have no idea why. Conversely, imagine YouTube shared details about what metrics you need to hit to get recommended or surfaced in the search page. 5. Discovery. As a small channel, it's tough to get views. Why not gamify this: if you average X watch time and Y likes on 3 videos, we'll put your video in the suggestions for 100 people who wouldn't see it otherwise. There should be an easy way to see who is streaming too, which is difficult for some unknown reason. 6. Help with content creation. YouTube must know what people are searching for on YouTube and what search queries have good or bad results. Why not give that information to creators? I could check and see that X people search for Y, and Y has really weak results. Okay, great, if I like X, I can put together a video to answer the query and collect some sweet views helping me and YouTube.

kkarakk 7y ago
you do realize logan paul is ALSO a corporate creator right? there is a whole consortium of people that fund his antics in exchange for him shilling their stuff. It was an artificially created brand right from the beginning...Dude was a disney actor,why do you think his channel is indie in any way? your point stands but your choice of example is strange.
- ALittleLight 7y ago
  I picked him just because his figures are mentioned exactly in the article. It's also true of more independent creators.

tigroferoce 7y ago

My 2 cents, as a user and not a creator. I'm deeply annoyed with YouTube and their policy of extracting any minute of possible attention from my eyes. I watch less and less YouTube and I would happily pay for quality contents.