Changes at YouTube - Phasing You out of Youtube (vid)

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Wow. The creator of this video has a rather large sense of entitlement.

Really. I completely agree. It's great to give feedback to a company on their products and services, but to tell the company 'we want this back, too bad if you can't make money off it', is going a bit far. He's gotta realize that if there is a market for the smaller channels, either YouTube will figure it out (maybe with his help), or some other company will serve the need. If not, than maybe there just isn't a market with a viable business model to make it work. He can't expect a company to keep loosing money just so he has a place to put his videos.

YouTube has to do this to dig out of their gigantic monetization hole:

http://www.businessinsider.com/is-youtube-doomed-2009-4

They have a net loss of _half a billion dollars a year_. Even at Google that's not the kind of number you can ignore.

Basically, YouTube gives a ton of revenue to small video producers who are popular in niches, but doesn't earn any money from those guys because advertisers are too scared to put ads on user-generated content. So instead of changing advertiser behaviour (which would be really hard), they are instead trying to funnel users to content that can be easily monetized. It remains to be seen if this will work or just piss off their users and kill YouTube.

They have a net loss of _half a billion dollars a year_

Repeating this ad infinitum doesn't make it true. A single report, from a single analyst, speculated that they may be losing that much.

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