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How many serious alternatives are out there for content makers now adays?

lotsofpulp 6y ago
They’ll have to pitch their ideas to Netflix/ATT/Disney/Comcast/Apple/etc. Or setup their own website and make deals with advertisers.
izacus 6y ago
Nginx can still serve videos with a plugin. There's plenty of ways to self host it. The problem? You don't have YouTube to cover your hosting costs.
- londons_explore 6y ago
  Split the video into chunks and serve it with the wrong mime type, and cloudflare will host it for you...
- smt88 6y ago
  S3/CloudFront supports video with scrubbing, and it's not expensive. The bigger problem with leaving YouTube is losing the enormous audience and recommendation algorithms that bring in viewers.
- pan69 6y ago
  > The problem? You don't have YouTube to cover your hosting costs. Even bigger problem, when you self host nobody knows you exist.
kzrdude 6y ago
A lot of creators are trying to advert nebula as a way to watch their videos, but I haven't tried it.
sct202 6y ago
There's Twitch and then I see a lot of people doing talk shows on Instagram. Definitely more than there used to be.
aequitas 6y ago
I've seen Nebula been promoted by some content makers on Youtube. Otherwise alternatives like PeerTube.
ritchiea 6y ago
Vimeo?
gvv 6y ago
I've seen people moving or at least having a duplicate channel on Bitchute, DailyMotion, Rumble etc.
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slightwinder 6y ago
Serious in sense that it's a place to make money? Probably Zero. If you count Live-Streaming, then 1 or 2 more. If we talk about alternatives to host videos? Probably dozens or more. If we talk about places for "high business" (proper company, not some lone creator in his ikea-flatroom) to make money, even more, but most of them are also specialized. Social Services like Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and even reddit are somewhat of a competition for short clips (<2 min), but making money there is a bit strange I guess. Youtube at the moment is the single place (for videos) where you get everything, from the high number of potential customers, to proper and easy tooling for managing stuff coupled with a good level of potential income. And as long as Youtube is to big to fail, this will not change.

They’ll have to pitch their ideas to Netflix/ATT/Disney/Comcast/Apple/etc. Or setup their own website and make deals with advertisers.

izacus 6y ago

Nginx can still serve videos with a plugin. There's plenty of ways to self host it. The problem? You don't have YouTube to cover your hosting costs.

londons_explore 6y ago
Split the video into chunks and serve it with the wrong mime type, and cloudflare will host it for you...
smt88 6y ago
S3/CloudFront supports video with scrubbing, and it's not expensive. The bigger problem with leaving YouTube is losing the enormous audience and recommendation algorithms that bring in viewers.
pan69 6y ago
> The problem? You don't have YouTube to cover your hosting costs. Even bigger problem, when you self host nobody knows you exist.

kzrdude 6y ago

A lot of creators are trying to advert nebula as a way to watch their videos, but I haven't tried it.

sct202 6y ago

There's Twitch and then I see a lot of people doing talk shows on Instagram. Definitely more than there used to be.

aequitas 6y ago

I've seen Nebula been promoted by some content makers on Youtube. Otherwise alternatives like PeerTube.

ritchiea 6y ago

Vimeo?

gvv 6y ago

I've seen people moving or at least having a duplicate channel on Bitchute, DailyMotion, Rumble etc.

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slightwinder 6y ago

Serious in sense that it's a place to make money? Probably Zero. If you count Live-Streaming, then 1 or 2 more. If we talk about alternatives to host videos? Probably dozens or more. If we talk about places for "high business" (proper company, not some lone creator in his ikea-flatroom) to make money, even more, but most of them are also specialized. Social Services like Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and even reddit are somewhat of a competition for short clips (<2 min), but making money there is a bit strange I guess. Youtube at the moment is the single place (for videos) where you get everything, from the high number of potential customers, to proper and easy tooling for managing stuff coupled with a good level of potential income. And as long as Youtube is to big to fail, this will not change.