there’s enough people mindlessly consuming content off the site via mobile or tv, or are clueless about adblockers to begin with, youtube will continue to exist and be profitable even if every adblocking user never visited the site again.
Until alternatives take off because the user experience becomes increasingly shitty. You really think Google isn’t going to ratchet up the ads over time?
Non of them have the scale to be able to host videos at the scale even remotely close to youtube. Almost a month worth of videos is being uploaded each minute to the site (~500 hours every minute) of vastly diverse content.
Even if we say tone it down to ~1 hour of content per minute, which sites are there that could reasonable be a substitue that wouldn’t end up in the same position as YT?
there’s enough people mindlessly consuming content off the site via mobile or tv, or are clueless about adblockers to begin with, youtube will continue to exist and be profitable even if every adblocking user never visited the site again.
Until alternatives take off because the user experience becomes increasingly shitty. You really think Google isn’t going to ratchet up the ads over time?
What alternatives?
Non of them have the scale to be able to host videos at the scale even remotely close to youtube. Almost a month worth of videos is being uploaded each minute to the site (~500 hours every minute) of vastly diverse content.
Even if we say tone it down to ~1 hour of content per minute, which sites are there that could reasonable be a substitue that wouldn’t end up in the same position as YT?