Yahoo May Build Its Own YouTube

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday March 29, 2014 @02:31AM from the nine-years-and-billions-of-videos-late dept.

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! by Curupira · 2014-03-29 02:35 · Score: 5, Funny

...in fact, forget the Youtube thing.
ads by stokessd · 2014-03-29 02:35 · Score: 5, Informative

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.
1. Re:ads by gbjbaanb · 2014-03-29 02:52 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  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:I'll bite your hand off for it by tepples · 2014-03-29 03:07 · Score: 5, Informative

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.