-
Own your platform Own your platform Own your platform Except how does this work if you do social video? :/ Chronotope/913467685907959809Permalink On twitter.com
♻️ 2 Retweets
Mood 0
-
It's easy to forget this, but self-hosting video content for small media or individuals is very much an unsolved problem.Permalink On twitter.com
♻️ 1 Retweets
❤️ 1 Favorite
Mood -2 🙁
-
Hosting video is worthless to YouTube unless they can run ads on it. It costs them infrastructure & earns nothing. Of course this occurs.Permalink On twitter.com
♻️ 1 Retweets
Mood -2 🙁
-
Speaks to the unrealized problem of pivoting to video - hosting streaming video is *expensive.* Crowd funding is great for creators/viewersPermalink On twitter.com
♻️ 1 Retweets
Mood +1 🙂
-
It's awful for YouTube as a platform and a business. No one really thought this through until now, but it is Time To Have A Talk about it.Permalink On twitter.com
♻️ 1 Retweets
Mood -4 🙁
-
I'm not excusing YouTube's rollout or behavior here. This was badly done, badly messaged, and way too specifically targetedPermalink On twitter.com
♻️ 1 Retweets
Mood -6 🙁
-
This marks something real interesting. For YouTube to make this move, monetization of video must be moving away from preroll in a big way.Permalink On twitter.com
♻️ 1 Retweets
Mood +3 🙂
-
Like turning off external tweet counts this is the sort of move that screams 'our infrastructure is costing more than it is earning'.On twitter.com
♻️ 1 Retweets
Mood 0
-
It also is an indicator that users would rather pay directly for video (or deal with product placement) than deal with preroll...Permalink On twitter.com
Mood -1 🙁
-
... which points to the fundamental problem w/Google's AMP-style attempts to fix the web. The problem is ad tech, not what holds that techPermalink On twitter.com
❤️ 1 Favorite
Mood -4 🙁
-
By trying to change how the web works instead of fixing the advertising technology they're destroying their own ecosystem by repelling usersPermalink On twitter.com
Mood -3 🙁
-
Anywho. Platforms are not solved for all content types. In fact they are not solved for most, prob some opportunities there.Permalink On twitter.com
Mood 0
-
Maybe someone should turn open.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/using-microservices-to-encode-and-publish-videos-at-the-new-york-times/?mcubz=3&_r=0 into an open source video CMS?Permalink On twitter.com
Mood 0
-
Uh huh, yeah, I'm sure. waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/vb7pgd/youtube-says-patreon-links-are-not-banned-on-youtube?utm_source=wptwitterusPermalink On twitter.com
Mood +1 🙂