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I’m currently working on a new platform in the long form video space, it offers a new take on video other than just what YouTube and Vimeo do. My question is, how willing are people to try something new in this space? Are you?

I’m planning on launching next month and I’m just trying to gauge the market

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Vimeo is targeting a specific market, they're not looking for the next Unboxing Therapy or LTT or whoever. Others, like say, BitChute, become filled with all the nutters who've already been deplatformed by YouTube. Dailymotion is covered in adds, and I don't think they really want to cater to people posting anything longer than a few minutes. As someone without cable, I'm happy to try anything, but it might help to get some big names on board. I know @eevblog Dave Jones will happily post anywhere he can.

There is a huge huge hunger for a new platform without all of YouTube's issues. Even today floatplane was launched as a subscription service for each creator which has zero recommending algorithm. I think a lot of the failures of others to get a platform is their lack of commitment to making it a social platform. YouTube in the early days has all sorts of social aspects like a messaging system, create playlists from other people's videos, and rather than just a 'trending' or 'popular' and 'news' tab it had like 20 or more categories of popular where if that category had only small amount of views creators would try to make a video in that category . I'm pretty sure the videos were manually flagged but they worked. Now they still do it but their algorithm flags everything and it just sucks. I'm missing tons and tons of features that no longer exist but it feels like the social part is what made YouTube.

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