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Out of curiosity what is the monetary benefit of self hosting streaming video?
by frankydp 12y ago
Out of curiosity what is the monetary benefit of self hosting streaming video?
- coherentpony 12y agoI dunno dude. I can't seem to play anything on slate. ghostery blocks it. So I disable ghostery and the video element loads. I click play and the video does not play. YouTube works fine with ghostery. I want to watch shit online without people watching me. I don't think that's unreasonable. Lots of sites try to make it really fucking hard, though. /end rant
- dredmorbius 12y agoIf sites embedding video would simply post links to the YouTube content, that would help markedly. I had the same problem FWIW: absolutely nothing on Slate's page evidenced that there was video let alone where it was hosted. Thanks HN for pointing out the sources.
- andreasvc 12y agoI use disconnect.me which is similar to ghostery, doesn't have that problem.
- massappeal 12y agoad revenue back to Slate as opposed to Youtube?
- frankydp 12y agoIs the ad revenue share from youtube < self hosted ad revenue - cost of hosting video and streaming it. Honestly do not know. But seems unlikely.
- ma2rten 12y agoNo risk of losing traffic to youtube and branding.
- coherentpony 12y agoUnfortunately, it had the exact opposite effect.