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by avar 2750 days ago
What's to stop Netflix from overnight coming out with "Netflix Communities" which'll just be their community-edition YouTube + Patreon and/or ads, similar to how YouTube is moving into Netflix's and Amazon's space with YouTube Originals?

There's a lot of disruption potential there given how large of a percentage Google keeps for itself from YouTube ad revenue.
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cenal 2750 days ago
Profit.

YouTube has struggled to make money.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2970777/YouTube-rou...

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fiftyfifty 2750 days ago
Amazon is already heading in this direction with Prime Video. In fact they already have different streams you can pay to subscribe to like Starz and HBO and some pretty niche ones like Curiosity Stream that I think is only $1.99/month or something like that.
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nobody271 2750 days ago
There doesn't seem to be the right niche. Maybe if they restricted it to fiction and documentaries but Vimeo already has that niche covered. Maybe Netflix could acquire Vimeo. btw imo Vimeo has a lot of excellent videos. They're more open to trying new things so sometimes they have something really good or deep that you would never find on YouTube or Netflix.
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sl1ck731 2750 days ago
One thing that can't be discounted is I would use the Netflix version of this over all the others for the simple fact of already having Netflix open on all my TVs or having a shortcut on my remote for it. It might not be in the consumers best interest for one app to have so much power, but I dream of a day when I can use only one for 90% of the things I want to view.
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nobody271 2747 days ago
hmm, yeah, I might too once their recommender system gets a little better. It would definitely save time.
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