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I'm specifically thinking of YouTube. They run a massively profitable ad business, pay creators, sell a premium membership program with a clear value prop, and

• pixl97 4y ago
  >and successfully moderate video content faster than Twitter can moderate text. There was the whole creepy men in diapers videos ending up on kids YT for months on end (Elsagate?), and mass demonetization issues if the topic is even close to controversial (of course they still show ads to you, the creator doesn't make income). Along with bans across all types of topics that are leaving more and more people confused. When you add in recent pushes for YT shorts because sites like Tik-Tok are pulling lots of viewers away, I still don't think the picture is near as rosy as you make it. The one thing that YT has is a near monopoly on video serving and a 'special' relationship with the movie and music industry that prevents them from being sued off the face of the planet.
  • tootie 4y ago
    They've had loads of problems and they've fixed almost all of them. And they have strangleholds on business because they made themselves into such an invaluable and reliable platform. They've done the opposite of what Musk is doing to alienate advertisers. They obviously leveraged their position in search, but they did a lot of things right to get to where they are.