• elgordio@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    While YouTube doesn’t commission, much, content it does store disproportionately more data. A streaming site has maybe 1,000,000 hours of content. That amount of content is uploaded to YouTube every day. It’s a totally different business model.

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      9 months ago

      And, I don’t think I should be the one paying for that.

      They should charge minor storage fees to the creators and uploaders. You pay to put your content up there if people watch it you get paid back as many multiples as necessary. It would be a fantastic method to reduce the amount of trash video stored up there that nobody ever watches.

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          9 months ago

          I’d say we’re at an impasse, but if I don’t buy premium and I don’t watch ads in their content, they’re not getting paid.

          If they paid a pittance to keep their storage and it pushed their quality up and push the price of premium down more people would watch and they’d make a hell of a lot more money.

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              9 months ago

              I only started blocking the ads when yt started allowing 2 back to back 15 second advertisements and creators started putting in mid rolls.

              This crap they’re pulling is downward spiral. They can’t get 20% more yoy by squeezing people to pay Netflix prices for crap. And most of the creators need patrion to even survive.

              I truly hoped something like Odyssey could survive and we could just dht our likes. But it just becomes a sesspool.

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        9 months ago

        It would be a hard-sell these days to charge someone to gamble on whether or not their content is going to get any views. My guess is that the conent economy et al is like an iceburg, it takes a lot to float it but only a little bit is worth seeing the light of day. Ie, you have to host a ton of garbage to be able to sift out the gems.

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          9 months ago

          Hard sell maube but they’re the only game in town. I suspect it’s not a matter of if but when.