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The really annoying part is YouTube gets all their content for free, while every other subscription video service pays for content.
They do, but the costs to store all of that high resolution video is enormous. Especially since it must be replicated to local repository for quicker access as popularity raises and removed when popularity falls on videos. The amount of content stored and served is significantly more than Netflix houses. That being said, ads are getting way too intrusive.
other streaming services dont let pretty much anyone upload gigabytes of video
Me gesturing at gazillions of porn sites that lets anyone upload any videos...
If YouTube implodes, pornhub will immediately launch an sfw version to grab the fleeing content creators.
Honestly I'm surprised they haven't done so already, they already have the tech to do it, probably need to scale it a bit.
Now I wonder if there aren't SFW videos in pornhub from people that want to upload videos but don't want to use YouTube. Or NSFW video that aren't really porn, like a random guy reviewing videogames naked for some reason. I'm not checking either.
I remember people from certain subreddits used to upload full movies to pornhub and share them for shit and giggles.
Plenty of video and file hosting services exist.
Creators no longer get ad revenue? What did I miss?
The ad revenue is a portion of what the advertisers paid.
YouTube DOES get its content for free. They pay YouTubers per view, essentially a portion of profit, whereas something like Netflix pays for the creation of content and then also a portion of profit made.
We do, with the data google sold about us all.
How much data left is there to sell about me? Pretty sure they know pretty much everything about us already.
My surfing habits change a little, but it’s mostly cyclical.
There is plenty to learn about you. They can experiment on you and see how you react. In fact, they do. Those seemingly random videos they throw into your feeds is just them using you as a lab rat. They throw it and see your reaction. Will you click it? Will you search something related to it? If they recommend you a video about how your privacy isn't worth anything, will you write a comment restating it a few weeks or months later without remembering that video? There is lot to learn about you.
They don't need new data to sell, they just find a new client who doesn't have your info yet.
The point is that that's in their own interest, because if they wouldn't host it, they wouldn't make any money.
I know you're mostly joking, but Google does sell your data/browsing habits for advertising, being able to show car dealership ads to someone who's browsing history indicates they're in the market is extremely valuable. It's not just about things "about you" like demographics/location, but an active, rolling profile about where you're most likely to spend your money.
Source on it being billions? All I could find was that they get 76PB/yr, which doesn't add up to multiple EBs.
I believe he is referring to the fact that YouTube don't have to pay upfront for new content, they even get new content without hunting for it, and many smaller channels don't have partnership and so on.
Sure they have a platform, backend and so on. But Netflix needs to have all that too plus buy things to show to their customers.
That's what I thought, and it's kind of a silly point to make. You're just moving around the order of the steps. They still pay for it.
Well, sure, but on the other hand, those smaller creators couldn't attract any attention or grow their audience without a platform to do it on. And, like it or not, youtube has that and doesn't charge those new creators anything to use the platform (unlike platforms like Vimeo, as one example).
Most of those large profitable channels wouldn't have been able to grow totbhwir current size without a free to use platform to spread their content to a wider audience.
There's give and take on both sides.
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Of course, the payment share on ads and memberships is fair and equitable is a separate discussion...