• @[email protected]
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    555 months ago

    it hurts so much that it is VERY hard to replicate youtube given the insane upkeep costs. I would leave in a fucking heartbeat but so many good creators only post there

      • Karyoplasma
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        5 months ago

        Not because they couldn’t but because they willfully operated at a loss to quench potential competition. The reason there is no replacement on YT is that all the content is on YT and creators won’t shift to other platforms because their whole audience is on YT as well.

        YT is not a video sharing platform anymore, it’s a market. And that’s why it sucks so bad.

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        145 months ago

        There’s no way to know, Google doesn’t report YouTube profit separately in their financial statements. The closest department is “Google services” which does have a 34% profit margin.

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        35 months ago

        And this will be more expensive to implement than regular ads, thus margins will be even thinner…

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      45 months ago

      it’s hard to replicate, has high upkeep, big authors’ community. it seems YouTube deserves to be paid despite all the negativity towards it.

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        I could sit here and throw out all the bad shit YouTube’s done but quite honestly the fact that its owned by google is enough justification to not give them money lmao.