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Re:YouTube Will Monetize Videos Without Paying Content Creators by swiley on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:42PM (#27280612)
They're rapidly heading toward becoming an ad funded file hosting/recommendation site. The reasons for continuing to upload there are dwindling. If I were a serious creator I'd have torrents for all my videos available by now and probably have them on at least one or two other services.
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Re:YouTube Will Monetize Videos Without Paying Content Creators by yannoninator on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:53PM (#27280776)
> If I were a serious creator I'd have torrents for all my videos available by now-

nobody on youtube does or would ever do this.

perhaps one can make a service that does this for them.

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Re:YouTube Will Monetize Videos Without Paying Content Creators by ssaturn on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @03:21PM (#27281264)
Peertube is essentially that, a peer to peer video hosting site that is decentralized with multiple instances hosted by different people/organizations
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Re:YouTube Will Monetize Videos Without Paying Content Creators by aequitas on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @03:12PM (#27281106)
> perhaps one can make a service that does this for them.

You mean like PeerTube?

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Re:YouTube Will Monetize Videos Without Paying Content Creators by izacus on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @03:48PM (#27281654)
Statements like these are bizarre - all the most prolific YouTubers are there because they earn a lot of money from YT. YouTube handles the ad deals, encoders, storage and content delivery and they get a cut of the ad revenue. They add a bit of product placement and Patreon and make a decent living.

Why the heck would they switch to Torrents which will earn them a small fraction of revenue... if any?

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Re:YouTube Will Monetize Videos Without Paying Content Creators by dan1234 on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @04:17PM (#27282026)
Linus tech tips did an enlightening breakdown video of their earnings and YouTube ads make up around 25% of their revenue.

I think they have to upload to YouTube because that’s where their audience is (IIRC it’s the world’s second largest search engine). There are lots of channels that I’ve only discovered as related videos to other videos I’ve watched.

https://youtu.be/-zt57TWkTF4

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