Yahoo May Build Its Own YouTube

An anonymous reader writes "Re/code reports that Yahoo will soon be stepping into the realm of internet video. They're seeking to take advantage of complaints from users who make videos for YouTube that they don't make enough money for their efforts. Yahoo has told content producers it can get them a bigger slice of the pie. 'For now, at least, Yahoo isn't talking about replicating YouTube's open platform, which lets users upload 100 hours of content every minute to the site. Instead, it is interested in cherry-picking particularly popular, more professional YouTube fare. Yahoo has also told some video owners that it can use its well-trafficked home page and other high-profile real estate to promote their clips on a non-exclusive basis. After a year, one source inside Yahoo said, it might open the platform up further.'"

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With blackjack and hookers!

[Curupira]

...in fact, forget the Youtube thing.

ads

[stokessd]

They're seeking to take advantage of complaints from users who make videos for YouTube that they don't make enough money for their efforts.

Lets hope they put in even more ads. I really like the unskipable 30 second ads before some shitty 15 second video.

Re:ads

[gbjbaanb]

it doesn't need more ads, just take less of a cut from them.

Google quite happily pays out a tiny amount from each ad and creams off billions. Yahoo is coming along to give us some competition, reduce its take, and overall we should be happy about that. The only one who loses is Google.

Competition is good in markets.

Re:ads

[BasilBrush]

I didn't know there was any lack of competition in the video serving market. Other video websites seem to find it hard to compete with YouTube. What makes Yahoo different? After all Yahoo hasn't been a force in anything much since the days when web-links were magenta and underlined, and most web page backgrounds were Windows grey.

Re:ads

[wiredlogic]

It was actually Motif gray since Mosaic was originally for X only.

I'll bite your hand off for it

[The123king]

If it means i don't have to deal with Google+

Re:I'll bite your hand off for it

[tepples]

Yahoo has its own problems with registration. In order to make a Yahoo account, you have to give Yahoo your valid cell phone number. Without receiving the verification message that Yahoo sends, you can't use your account. This means you have to buy a cell phone and subscribe to a plan that includes SMS.

Good

[gigaherz]

Google is increasingly trying harder to get me to use my real name while browsing/commenting on YouTube, even though I have repeatedly stated that I do not want to do so. The sooner there's less abusive competition, the better.

Ads on Youtube are getting obnoxious

[JoeyRox]

For my own experience the quantity and length of ads on Youtube has reached the tipping point where I start dreading even going to Youtube anymore. It's fine to see a 5 second ad for a video I know I will enjoy, but the ads on the 'speculative' videos where I'm just hopping around looking for something interesting to watch are beyond ridiculous. The other day I watched 10 crappy videos in a row, all of which had at least a 5 second-then-skip ad at the beginning, and one with a must-watch 15 second ad. That totaled one minute of ads for what turned out to be zero seconds of entertainment.

Re:Ooh, me, me!

[flyneye]

Yahoob! Roll a doob, squeeze her boobs, gonna veg on the intertube!
Hey, lookout , here comes the lube, Microsoft hosting pr0n on a Bling Redtube!
Out of the grave, here comes it sista, hosting world access TV is Alta Vista.
Ibeen had to watch more ads, faster dates who masturbate on Iphone webcam.
They got you hooked, you always look, youve forgotten how to read a book.
To sit and dream and often wonder, to shit and smell and fart like thunder,
in your hand a mangled book, those days are gone, dont be mistook.
For now your droid does all the work and wipes your butt, while you jerk.

Re:If it's only for professionals

[TWX]

Sounds to me that it's more like Blip.tv, Vimeo, or perhaps Funny or Die, than Hulu.

I don't expect it to work because I don't expect enough content to be on it to justify my going there to look at random content when there aren't enough contributors. I generally only find myself going to non-Youtube video sites when someone sends me a link to a video that's on one of those sites, not to browse or search myself. That may well be because of their interfaces not making it as easy to find the content I want in the first place or to find like-items to what I'm currently viewing, but for whatever reason, Youtube has the content and the way to find it better than the other video sites at the moment.

I wish Yahoo well, don't get me wrong, but we'll just have to wait and see if they actually manage to make something or if this is just another, "Me Too!" moment.

Archive.org

[ikhider]

I prefer to post on Archive.org. The site can support different resolutions and can even run on Libre-based operating systems. Also, you don't have to worry about regional restrictions. For example, I may send someone a Youtube link to a friend in Germany, but she cannot view it due to region restrictions. However, an Archive.org link will work. I would prefer Archive.org as the place for original, independent video content. No ads, no stress.