The Challenges of a YouTube Alternative

This guy makes great points. Fragmenting audiences into dozens of streaming sites can't be good. They may be sustainable and even create a cross platform advertising system but they would be so far behind. Even the porn industry is dominater by one company, which basically destroyed the porn industry. There is a great podcast about this case (the butterfly effect).

So do you think fragmenting the market into tiny niches (weedtube, ASMR, sports commentary, etc) does more good than bad. It may allow some niches to be sustainable but they will have serious problems targeting mass audiences and benefiting from new viewers who would never deliberately visit Weedyoutube on a daily basis.

I found your channel BECAUSE of youtube's algorithm, so it stands to reason that being excluded from such a broad media platform will seriously hamper the growth and social influence of any creator or school of thought. I think it's important to stay active on YouTube as long as possible, even if your channel isn't earning money, because you're still gaining subscribers and fans. But you definitely need to look at other options to generate revenue and continue to grow your audience. Merch, coaching, speaking events, sponsors, collaborations, guest appearances, other video media platforms, writing articles or books, start a column in a local or online publication, maybe even get into public radio?

Margaret

I agree with this video. There are other channels that I follow who have had videos taken down (Christian related channels). He did strike a chord tho, that people have their own commercial interest in using these platforms. I wonder what kind of platform will arise that will actually support free speech?

I somewhat disagree with this assessment, if you look at what YouTube did with the hippy community, when they pushed off all of the marijuana related content, a new platform was birthed called “WeedTube” which has been doing pretty well. I think if a centralized platform that allowed all parties to speak and act freely was created that didn’t necessarily advertise itself in such a way that Gab has, it could really take off as long as it didn’t openly pander to one side or another.