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by sarreph 4453 days ago
This did make me chuckle: "...when’s the last time you heard someone talking about their favorite viral OneDrive video? Never? Yeah. Probably never."
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Well to be fair OneDrive is not actually competing with Youtube, it is competing with Google Drive and Dropbox.

Off topic but who do you actually consider a real competitor to Youtube? The only other major service I can think of is Vimeo. I have been getting frustrated with Youtube's random takedowns, ads and disabling of fullscreen in most websites. I think there is a potential for some new startups here.

Twitch.tv is probably the biggest competitor in the gaming area... maybe even bigger than Youtube for game uploads.

edit: looks like twitch is supported, definitely as well as youtube, and includes live broadcasting of gameplay... http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/apps/Xbox-One/Twitch

Pretty weird point. After all, one could upload the video to YouTube from OneDrive on a different device.