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>Because they are finally learning that existing on someone else's platform sucks. Much better to get your own domain [...] A lot of people already know they'r
by jasode 6y ago
>Because they are finally learning that existing on someone else's platform sucks. Much better to get your own domain [...]
A lot of people already know they're the less powerful economic actor on Youtube platform. Regardless, people upload videos to Youtube instead of their own domain because of tradeoffs.
For unknown creators with no audience, Youtube doesn't suck (in comparison to hosting videos on personal domain) because:
(1) you don't have the money to pay for variable hosting bandwidth costs
(2) you don't have any business relationships with advertisers to monetize which helps with (1)
(3) you have no network effect platform recommending your videos (e.g. repair smartphones and drones) to audiences of like-minded channels such as Linus Tech Tips -- which helps with (2)
There is a timeline that creators can't avoid to build financial/platform independence and leverage. Today, Linus can realistically host videos on his Floatplane alternative because he already used Youtube to build his 13 million subscribers. He also already built his own advertiser relationships to embed native ads with him as spokesperson outside of Youtube pre-roll and mid-rolls. In contrast, it's quite a different challenge for him to start in 2008 with his own Floatplane.com domain and build an audience of 13 million outside of Youtube.
- PartiallyTyped 6y agoBesides FloatPlane, other streaming websites that educational channels upload content to are nebula [1] and I think curiosity stream [2]. [1] https://watchnebula.com/ https://watchnebula.com/ [2] https://curiositystream.com/ https://curiositystream.com/
- TazeTSchnitzel 6y agoNebula and CuriosityStream have some sort of cross-promotion sponsorship deal going on but I think they're completely separate services and it's only Nebula that has like, youtubers on it.
- loudmax 6y agoI got a subscription to Curiosity Stream with Nebula bundled in. While Curiosity Stream has original content, as far as I can tell all of the Nebula stuff is also available on YouTube. So as a Nebula customer the only real benefit is watching content without ads. This is well and good, but ads aside, Youtube is simply a more convenient platform. There's less outright garbage on Nebula, and that's a good thing because the search function and categories are hit and miss. Compared to Youtube, the keyboard controls are janky and there are no comments (arguably more of a feature than a shortcoming), so no real way to engage with the content creators. Having said that I think I paid under $20 for a year's subscription for the bundle. At this rate it's cheap enough to be worthwhile even if you only watch a few hours of content per month. And I do hope these folks can make Nebula's business model work, there's some worthwhile stuff in there.
- PartiallyTyped 6y agoI can recall that certain channels have (or at least had) exclusive content on Nebula, but it indeed appears to be worth while considering I am paying more for spotify and netflix.
- input_sh 6y agoDefinitely not all of it: https://watchnebula.com/videos?category=originals https://watchnebula.com/videos?category=originals There are completely original series that are not on YouTube at all: game shows hosted by Tom Scott and Sam from Wendover, some car-testing series (pre-Covid) that I'm not into, a zoomer discovering pop culture from 90s/early 00s, some interviews, a giant history series on the fall of Berlin, and plenty of one-off videos from individual creators that are not on YouTube (example: "PornHub's surprising carbon footprint" would never go good on YouTube). Then there's usually an additional few scenes on videos you'll find on YouTube. I also have a CuriosityStream + Nebula bundle, but I rarely watch anything on CS. I can't point my finger into anything particular I don't like about its content, I just don't watch it that much.