Would be funny if the combined resources of three countries end up creating a strong YouTube competitor.
The world needs a YouTube competitor sooner than later.
The world needs a YouTube competitor sooner than later.
Then again, if anyone can make Google accountable it's EU.
There are enough stats to say, a layman would click a video over an article to read.
I just did a search for "ASCII table" and there are 4 videos not on YouTube in the top 10 videos (2 of them on a website called "ASCII table", one on "science buddies", one on reddit).
(In fact this is why I don't like to use this tab: the video might be on a random website and the video might be somewhere down the page, while the website is not optimized on mobile.)
Disclaimer: I am a Google employee but not working on YouTube or search.
site:youtube.com thing you want to search for
No creating a competitor isn't easy. Profitable video hosting is trade secret still, and even with Google's technology and scale it becomes barely sustainable.
The problem is that in order to build a 'viable' Youtube competitor, you need to get content creators to post on your site, instead of Youtube. To do that, you need to be able to guarantee them ad income, and to do that you need advertisers, and to get them you need a large number of viewers, to get whom you need content creators posting on your site.
Whoever manages to find a way to solve this chicken and egg problem will end up creating the first viable Youtube competitor.
The biggest problem is being able to handle the legal minefield that Copyright law (in all its international variations) is for a video plattform.
That's not that big a problem tbh. It's understood and there's a lot of solutions.
The bigger issue is that you'll have to get music licenses if you want to actually run a service in the long run, and people's faces tend to drop when they find out they simply can't license music internationally, and you have to approach multiple different bodies in literally every individual country you operate in.
Operating an international video service probably requires you to sign 750-ish collective rights agreements, and that is painfully expensive to even negotiate. Some of these bodies are also much more rational than others on pricing.
I do not think there is room for a competitor that is exactly like Youtube, but not Youtube. You have to do something different.
Maybe if nation states can work together, they can take on Google. But then, when have we ever heard of nation states working together on the internet taking on tech giants for the benefit of their citizens? Didn't Europe try it with the search engine and fail miserably?
https://www.tiktok.com/@oakleythegoldenpuppy/video/684743005...
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDMXsDQlINA/?hl=en
https://m.facebook.com/WoofWoofTV/videos/2348730758738033/
And while Instagram and Facebook definitely require you to sign in almost the second you leave a video link, it looks like you’re free to browse Tiktok to your heart’s content while signed out (excluding comments).