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Re:Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive ... by antonyh on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:29AM (#23244907)
YouTube looks a lot like a content publisher to me. It's a monitisation platform. It transcodes for devices. It indexes the content and makes search & discovery available.

Even the terminology is consistent with publisher - channel, subscriber, and so on.

If the content is explicitly uploaded to YT, then how is it not a publisher?

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Re:Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive ... by coding_lobster on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @06:03AM (#23245097)
> YouTube looks a lot like a content publisher to me. It's a monitisation platform. It transcodes for devices. It indexes the content and makes search & discovery available.

The monetization aspect seems to be the only differentiation between what would consist a virtual library and a publisher.

And we know how difficult it is to get monetized on YouTube and make it a viable source of income.

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