YouTube is the target of a lot of competition these days, especially from Yahoo. Their YouTube competitor is supposed to launch this summer, although it seems to be experiencing some setbacks as they try to get contracts put in place with creators and Multi-Channel Networks.
While most of us would agree that competition for YouTube would be a good thing, it would also make some things more difficult for us as creators. For one thing, our audiences would be fragmented across platforms making communication with all of them much more difficult. Plus, having all your views and subscribers at one place looks better for social proof than splitting up views between multiple copies of the video.
I’d love to hear what you guys think. Would it be good for YouTube to have competition? And, if so, what features and qualities would a competitor need to have in order to successfully bring viewers from YouTube to their platform?
- Find out if your Internet service provider plays YouTube in HD
- 7 Ways to Improve your Video Quality
- Google Video Quality Report
- Yahoo Plots YouTube Rival for Summer Debut After Delay
- Nintendo to Share Profits from Gameplay Videos
- 11 Ways To Double Your YouTube Subscribers
- eBook: 30 Days to a Better YouTube Channel
![How To Sell on YouTube without Tanking your Views [feat. Owen Video] [Ep. #171]](https://s30249.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/podthumb16x9_02-500x383.jpg)
If what I read is true and Yahoo won’t be open there video service to
all people, right away but just the “big time players” then I saw screw
Yahoo and there video network. I hope it crashes and burns!
In the video niche I’m in at youtube, one reason it can’t thrive is because the
big time players who have been there for years, before I joined, own the
market.
They are established icons in that youtube field. And get all the views and subscribers. What I wanted when I first read of Yahoo opening a similar video site, is to get in on ground zero.
And hopefully those big icons won’t jump to the yahoo service. That way,
new people can have a chance and opportunity to establish themselves.
And become the new icons. Or at least have a chance.
And if anything, letting the youtube icons go to yahoo and establish themselves? Well they will then own that yahoo niche!
And new Yahoo video owners will have lost out, before they even had a chance to start. It won’t be an even playing field.
So already Yahoo is screwing it all up! And they have not even started
yet. I hope if what I read of there plan is true, then may it crash and
burn and not prosper.
Yahoo if you are reading this, you are not helping the new people who hope to thrive on your video service.
You are only helping the youtube 6 figure earners.
Reevaluate your options and open the service to all people from the beginning.
That way everyone has a chance on an even playing field.