Good luck with that. Youtube was bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars every year for close to a decade
before Google bought them out and it's still bleeding cash.
Any serious competitor will need DEEP pockets to take on Youtube.
Oh I know. I wonder how much of that is that they don't allow "adult" content though. I've worked about 5 years in digital advertising and have a good handle on it but it's not hard to imagine how much the infrastructure costs of HD streaming costs vs ad turnover. It's a real balancing act between balancing advertiser cost per impression vs what you give to the content creators. And video gets even trickier based on what metrics you deem an ad to be "viewed". 25%? Does it have to be on screen? What about half of it on screen? Is just the audio enough? Are you going to use viewability pixels and such to make sure you aren't just flat out blocked? One thing I learned in those years, is anything you think you are doing to block it they have an answer. It's just a question of how ethical the ad network is and whether they care about being moderately ethical.
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DrunkViking ago
Where is VoatTube?
speedisavirus ago
We could create it. There are plenty of developers here like myself.
Rebel_Media_FTW ago
Good luck with that. Youtube was bleeding hundreds of millions of dollars every year for close to a decade before Google bought them out and it's still bleeding cash.
Any serious competitor will need DEEP pockets to take on Youtube.
speedisavirus ago
Oh I know. I wonder how much of that is that they don't allow "adult" content though. I've worked about 5 years in digital advertising and have a good handle on it but it's not hard to imagine how much the infrastructure costs of HD streaming costs vs ad turnover. It's a real balancing act between balancing advertiser cost per impression vs what you give to the content creators. And video gets even trickier based on what metrics you deem an ad to be "viewed". 25%? Does it have to be on screen? What about half of it on screen? Is just the audio enough? Are you going to use viewability pixels and such to make sure you aren't just flat out blocked? One thing I learned in those years, is anything you think you are doing to block it they have an answer. It's just a question of how ethical the ad network is and whether they care about being moderately ethical.