axeman wrote:just brew it! wrote:Sometimes it takes a paradigm shift to dislodge the incumbent. It isn't so much that someone does "thing X" better; it is that "thing X" becomes less relevant. Microsoft's tech dominance has slipped of late, but it isn't because someone else managed to kick them off their desktop-OS-and-office-suite throne. It is because the world is going mobile, making desktop OSes less relevant than they used to be.
I have no idea who is going to render YouTube irrelevant. If I knew that, I'd be able to retire in a few years.
Someone will have to figure out a monetarily viable replacement to YouTube eventually?? YouTube is nothing but a cash sinkhole. Even Google isn't likely to subsidize it forever with their massive ad revenues, stockholders hate that sort of thing. Although they may be trying to make YouTube profitable...we now get ads of up to 30 seconds that can't be skipped, and with increasing frequency. This is is getting old quick.
Seems like good a place as any...
subbable.com exists. This is a site started by John and Hank Green to try other ways of funding their content, and it has been a big part in them keeping youtube.com/crashcourse up and running as a no-cost educational resource. Basically they have it set up so that you get ad-free videos if you subcribe via payment, and there are rewards similar to how Kickstarter projects reward backers.
So besides that plug, it does point out that media in a general sense is moving away from the TV model (which is basically what Youtube is doing with pre-video ads) and toward a model that works better for the internet. My hope would be that I could eventually order all the content I want on a per-show or per-channel basis. There are some options for that through Amazon or iTunes, but it is far from perfect. If you want a lot of games during your sport's season, your only choice is a fancy cable/satellite package.
On second thought, let's not go to TechReport. It's infested by crypto bull****.