Is it even possible to have a strong competitor to YouTube?

[José Mourinho]

Apart from washed out content creators, it's no surprise that YouTube had multiple controversies even during its early years such as the notorious Adpocalypse, and even back then there was uproar about Google Plus, and these aren't the only controversies on YouTube.

Dailymotion or Vimeo usually came to your mind when you are asked about YouTube alternatives, and none of them are as notable as YouTube. I mean, when was the last time you really used them? Sure, there's new ones in recent years such as Amazon Videos but some later fell off like Vid.Me. Needless to say none of them are still as notable as YouTube.

People often talked about with how shitty the way YouTube is going be it how they treat content creators, and how there should be strong competitors to YouTube, but the question is, is it even possible at this point?

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Amazon would probably be it. They're the only ones with the infrastructure, and it depends how much they're willing to lose.

 

[Doc Cassidy]

Pornhub seems to be making a play, a lot of gun channels have moved there. They already have the infrastructure and they're used to dealing with copyrighted material so if they made a separate service to compete with YouTube they might actually have a shot.

 

[IV 445]

Rather than go after the synthetic outside of YouTube, maybe a small group of people could go after the organic inside of YouTube.

If you get what I mean.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

this isnt the top secret circle, alan. go back to shitposting there

 

[Super-Chevy454]

There was once a time when Dailymotion was a big competitor but some said it's a shadow of its former self. It could be interesting to see how far Liveleak, DTube and Bitchute will go.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Justin.tv and Blip.

 

[Tetra]

The main issue with a Youtube competitor is the storage of all the videos isn't it?
Doesn't bitchute solve those issues a bit? at least?
Either way I think if that gets solved we'd see many more potential youtube clones showing up as youtube helps alienate more and more people, in their attempt to be more like tv.

this isnt the top secret circle, alan. go back to shitposting there

Alan is a strong independent user who don't need no TSIC

 

[Xetzyr]

YouTube should be declared a monopoly, then split up into hundreds of baby YouTubes which would then be collectively called "the tubes" and thus funny ignorance and naivete would in turn become real reality... the Internet could very well then become "a series of tubes".

 

[CIA Nigger]

The main issue with a Youtube competitor is the storage of all the videos isn't it?
Doesn't bitchute solve those issues a bit? at least?
Either way I think if that gets solved we'd see many more potential youtube clones showing up as youtube helps alienate more and more people, in their attempt to be more like tv.




Alan is a strong independent user who don't need no TSIC

The other issue with starting up a YouTube competitor is the fact that there are plenty of movie studios, record labels, and angry musicians who want their content off the internet, unless you're forking over money to them. The Viacom lawsuit is a great example of what anyone starting a video site has to deal with.

The biggest issue though is the same every other website that tried to compete with YouTube has. They have zero critical mass, and YouTube got big because of something that's hard to replicate: from uploads of copyrighted content.

 

[Tetra]

The biggest issue though is the same every other website that tried to compete with YouTube has. They have zero critical mass, and YouTube got big because of something that's hard to replicate: from uploads of copyrighted content.

Right, it started as a piracy site to gain the initial exposure, however I think the internet is a lot larger now and as long as they can convince some mildly talented people to switch or at the very least upload on multiple sites I see an opportunity to get around that.

 

[XYZpdq]

I was under the impression that nobody has figured out a way to make a youtube type site actually turn a profit, even youtube.
Unless it actually makes money there won't be competition at it.

 

[Xetzyr]

The problem isn't making another YouTube... the problem is hosting, bandwidth and processing capacity. A lot of people are amazed at the NUMBER of videos uploaded every minute to YouTube... but what's really impressive is the amount of processing power needed to re-encode all that uploaded video to their site stored standards for effective universal viewing with their particular player.

YouTube can't really be competed against directly right now, not unless someone had actual billions to throw around for hosting/bandwidth/marketing costs. Eventually when hosting and bandwidth capacities increase significantly there could be a potential competitor, but right not it's just not very feasable.

You could argue that they have a sort of monopoly in that they're using their own AdSense platform to support the site... sort of like when Microsoft was using their own operating system to support the use of their browser and thus the Internet to a significant degree.

YouTube is like a kind of video web browser and AdSense is like the operating system for it. Metaphorically speaking.

Google should be made to let competitor YouTube sites directly use Google adsense ads on their videos.