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Was his expectation that YouTube would cover his hosting, encoding and bandwidth costs for free forever? I wonder what his backup plan is and where will he host
by izacus 5y ago
Was his expectation that YouTube would cover his hosting, encoding and bandwidth costs for free forever? I wonder what his backup plan is and where will he host the videos now.
(It's still kind of wierd that YouTube doesn't support simply paying for their hosting.)
- doublejay1999 5y agothis is the shittiest take. does youtube expect him to keep giving them content free forever ? without contributing to his production costs ?
- EugeneG 5y agoThey don’t expect that. They create an incentive structure to attract creators they want at the price they want and are ok I assume if others choose to not work with them. It’s not like YouTube called him and said “hey what the heck man, why did you stop uploading?”
- ikiris 5y agoWhich do you think costs more? I can tell you the marginal value for most all content is basically zero. The hosting costs aren't.
- doublejay1999 5y agoit obviously costs more to produce content than it does to host and stream it. That's why you watch a show costing 10 millions dollars per episode, for 10 bucks a month.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoWhat about the marginal cost to host a channel that gets < 1000 views per year?
- exhilaration 5y agoI can't speak for him, but yes, I was (foolishly) expecting free YouTube hosting forever without ads because that's what they've always provided. I would think that enough YouTube content makers opt into ads and monetization to cover the costs for those of us that don't want it.
- briefcomment 5y agoOne possibility would be for YouTube to take a larger cut from content creators that do monetize, and the leave the unmonetized content alone.