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Re:Changes to the YouTube Partner Program by Feniks on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:21PM (#16170311)
We'll see. As it stands there aren't a lot of YT clones. Hosting a billion videos that will continue to multiply for eternity can't be cheap.

Lets face it most of the stuff on YT has very little ad revenue.

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Re:Changes to the YouTube Partner Program by viridian on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @01:40PM (#16170497)
Twitch basically seems to be the only real competition at this point, but they are rapidly building up to take the fight to YouTube. They are publicly shifting away from the gaming focus and towards general content creation. This whole thing seems to be more in the hands of PR and network effects than anything else. Like if the Jiu jitsu community goes to twitch I have little reason to go on youtube anymore.
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Re:Changes to the YouTube Partner Program by jacksmith21006 on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:15PM (#16170816)
Google has over 1.6 billion hours a day being consumed and Twitch does not even register. #2 is Facebook with 119 million hours. So Twitch is not really competitive.

Plus Amazon purchased Twitch and then removed the app from the Roku which does not help grow the platform.

https://www.cordcuttersnews.com/amazon-pulls-twitch-channel-... Amazon Pulls Their Twitch Channel from Roku - Cord Cutters News

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