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Re:YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content by kzcqt on Friday April 12, 2019 @12:28PM (#19646286)
A competitor would need to operate at youtube's scale for it to be considered a serious competitor. Otherwise, we wouldn't be having this conversation, given that websites like Dailymotion and Vimeo exist, but no "youtube stars" use them.
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Re:YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content by krapp on Friday April 12, 2019 @12:31PM (#19646328)
Not every competitor has to be "serious" to be successful.

And what about Twitch? Plenty of "personality" driven content there.

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Re:YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content by kzcqt on Friday April 12, 2019 @12:32PM (#19646337)
Twitch is not a competitor of youtube. Twitch is specialised in live shows. They don't let you upload videos, and they delete old videos of past broadcasts pretty often.
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Re:YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content by krapp on Friday April 12, 2019 @12:37PM (#19646394)
If user attention is split between Twitch and Youtube then they are a competitor. Same for Netflix. Same for Pornhub. Same for Vine when that was a thing.
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Re:YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content by stcredzero on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:49PM (#19647221)
If user attention is split between Twitch and Youtube then they are a competitor. Same for Netflix. Same for Pornhub. Same for Vine when that was a thing.

But if you focus attention to political commentary specifically, then YouTube is clearly the dominant giant. In that context, they are a defacto monopoly.

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Re:YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content by rchaud on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:00PM (#19646680)
It really wouldn't. YT makes a big deal about vanity metrics like "10,000 hours of video uploaded per hour" (or something like that), but the 80-20 rule still applies.

A giant chunk of uploaded content is never even watched.

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Re:YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content by yorwba on Friday April 12, 2019 @02:10PM (#19647438)
A site for YouTube videos that have never been watched before: http://www.petittube.com/
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Re:YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content by Spivak on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:20PM (#19646921)
I don't really think so. A turnkey "host your own video site" would pretty much qualify a competitor -- I'm far more loyal to the people I watch on YouTube/Twitch than the platforms themselves. If they moved to their own site it wouldn't matter too much to me assuming I still had a way to get it on my TV.
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Re:YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content by stcredzero on Friday April 12, 2019 @01:47PM (#19647208)
But in the long term, virality, discovery, and monetization matter a great deal. YouTube could simply wait for current creators to become stale, and absolutely control the future of discourse.
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