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A comment on Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" ... by williamstein on Monday May 20, 2024 @12:15AM (#40412215)
The problem isn’t for me. The problem is that customers who want to learn about my product via my videos are forced to watch ads if they don’t have an adblocker.
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Re:Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" ... by 1f60c on Monday May 20, 2024 @06:13AM (#40413944)
Can't you host the videos yourself or use another managed service (such as Cloudflare Stream—no relation)?
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Re:Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" ... by williamstein on Monday May 20, 2024 @06:56PM (#40421531)
Yes of course that is possible. However there is significant value add from YouTube, comments, subscribe, SEO (YouTube videos often come up in google searches), works on mobile devices offline, etc
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