It’s also really hard to compete with YouTube simply due to the cost of compute and storage associated with serving video. The costs are way higher than most an

It’s also really hard to compete with YouTube simply due to the cost of compute and storage associated with serving video. The costs are way higher than most any other type of website. You have to do transcoding and also store multiple versions of videos at different resolutions. There are few companies with the resources to create a real competitor.