Normally I’d agree with you, but this is Google, the 4th largest companies in the world, not some scrappy startup which might go away next quarter if they can’t hit their revenue target. If Google actually shutdown YouTube, I’d cheer because that’s when the real competition begun in the video space.
Right, so only scrappy startups deserve to run a profitable business and Google should be forced to choke down the abhorrent cost of YouTube out of… what exactly? If they were making money hand over fist on it, sure, fuck em. But they’re not. YouTube isn’t profitable and the reason there aren’t competitors is for that exact reason. They are literally free video data storage with no limit. No site can compete with that. Everything else would make you pay for a membership or have a small hard limit or even have some kind of gate yet you take it as the standard.
If YouTube fails there will be no alternative to take their place. Amazon might try, but their greed might stop them. They’re already a household name, what would the point be?
The thing is, I’m ok if Google do this right from the start. Instead, they use their massive capitals to run YouTube for free and squashed all their competitors. Vimeo was the most promising competitor in this space, but they can’t compete with Google’s infinite subsidy to YouTube and had to pivot. Now that there is no competitor around anymore, Google jacked up prices, reduced monetization rates for their content creators, locked up formerly free features behind subscription plans, and now declaring a war with adblockers.
If YouTube fails there will be no alternative to take their place.
So yeah, I’m not supporting Google in this space because this whole situation where there is no competitors to YouTube anymore is Google’s own doing.
Normally I’d agree with you, but this is Google, the 4th largest companies in the world, not some scrappy startup which might go away next quarter if they can’t hit their revenue target. If Google actually shutdown YouTube, I’d cheer because that’s when the real competition begun in the video space.
Right, so only scrappy startups deserve to run a profitable business and Google should be forced to choke down the abhorrent cost of YouTube out of… what exactly? If they were making money hand over fist on it, sure, fuck em. But they’re not. YouTube isn’t profitable and the reason there aren’t competitors is for that exact reason. They are literally free video data storage with no limit. No site can compete with that. Everything else would make you pay for a membership or have a small hard limit or even have some kind of gate yet you take it as the standard.
If YouTube fails there will be no alternative to take their place. Amazon might try, but their greed might stop them. They’re already a household name, what would the point be?
The thing is, I’m ok if Google do this right from the start. Instead, they use their massive capitals to run YouTube for free and squashed all their competitors. Vimeo was the most promising competitor in this space, but they can’t compete with Google’s infinite subsidy to YouTube and had to pivot. Now that there is no competitor around anymore, Google jacked up prices, reduced monetization rates for their content creators, locked up formerly free features behind subscription plans, and now declaring a war with adblockers.
So yeah, I’m not supporting Google in this space because this whole situation where there is no competitors to YouTube anymore is Google’s own doing.