Sibernethy
Questin' for a Jestin'
You mess with the bull, you get the horns, Youtube. Nothing is irreplaceable. People will leave.
New YouTube ToS means this!? Thoughts...?
- Thread starter Firefly0037
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Clam-
I've Got It
That's not really going to happen. There is simply not a good alternative to YouTube. People mention Dailymotion, but have any of you actually tried to make a channel there, upload and customize stuff? It's horrible, I would not switch as long as YouTube is up.
What's more likely to happen is that content will slightly change and people will just have to swear less which is fine IMO. Either that or don't generate money from those videos.
Firefly0037
Active Member
people have already left though. there are several posts on reddit about people searching for the "next big thing" similar to youtube... not sure if this is just another wave of freaking out like the google+ privacy thing was, or if people are legitimately serious about finding something new...
CousinEd
There's always a choice
Who have left? Those who have already branched outside of YouTube? Or those who haven't even started doing YouTube? All I see is a bunch of 12-year-olds over exaggerating and crying over things they don't understand. This happens every time YouTube does a serious update.
WolfWraith
I Love YTtalk
Pretty much, the Policy has been around for a very long time now, as far as I even know it's always really been AdSense's policy along with AdWords, you equally can't advertise dodgy stuff. With the way everyone was acting when I heard about it though, I genuinely thought YouTube had put a new policy in place till I read it and saw it was pretty much the same. I think they were just working on the automated system to do it for them and they finished it hence why it's NOW effecting channels.
Although I do find it extremely odd that YouTube themselves would try to control this. I highly doubt they will demonetise every single video on YouTube that says the F word because that'd be probably nearly all their income xD. It should be up to the advertisers and I don't know why it isn't since AdWords gives you the ability to choose areas your ads are served. So you could essentially avoid advertising on gaming channels or specifically target gaming channels. If I recall there's even an option to block specific videos & target specific videos, you can even target individual channels if you want, tags etc...
Sibernethy
Questin' for a Jestin'
Give it five years and we'll see how well this point holds up.
Shakycow
I Love YTtalk
...and where are they going? There is no other video site out there with the traffic, ease of use, tools, or one that pays as well as YouTube.
Looking forward, no other company has the bandwidth (and the few that do have shown no interest in paying out), and, considering that Google, a company based off of information and advertisements, has yet to pull a yearly profit off of YouTube, I don't see many companies lining up to be a competitor in a market that doesn't make money.