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by paulpan 2177 days ago
The competitive advantage of YouTube isn't really in video storage or bandwidth, but rather in its creators community and ad revenue sharing/monetization. Also copyright, regulatory compliance, content moderation are non-trivial.

These are the causes (among many others) that sunk Microsoft's Mixer and potentially Facebook Watch...
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angel_j 2177 days ago
No, it needed network and storage first, losing billions for years in order to supply the creators with a service. The non-trivial factors could be trivialized by better community moderation features and niche networks.
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monkeywork 2177 days ago
youtubes competitive advantage is search... that plus the simple scale of users and content.
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solarkraft 2177 days ago
> youtubes competitive advantage is search

How? YouTube videos aren't all that prominent on Google and its search features are rather terrible.

What they do have is a semi working recommendations system. How hard would that be to replicate?

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