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The competitive advantage of YouTube isn't really in video storage or bandwidth, but rather in its creators community and ad revenue sharing/monetization. Also
by paulpan 6y ago
The competitive advantage of YouTube isn't really in video storage or bandwidth, but rather in its creators community and ad revenue sharing/monetization. Also copyright, regulatory compliance, content moderation are non-trivial.
These are the causes (among many others) that sunk Microsoft's Mixer and potentially Facebook Watch...
- angel_j 6y agoNo, it needed network and storage first, losing billions for years in order to supply the creators with a service. The non-trivial factors could be trivialized by better community moderation features and niche networks.
- monkeywork 6y agoyoutubes competitive advantage is search... that plus the simple scale of users and content.
- solarkraft 6y ago> youtubes competitive advantage is search How? YouTube videos aren't all that prominent on Google and its search features are rather terrible. What they do have is a semi working recommendations system. How hard would that be to replicate?