Vidme To Shut Down On Dec 15th 2017 49
New submitter substance2003 writes: Vid.me has announced they are shutting down on December 15th 2017 citing that they could not find a path to sustainability. This news should be of concern as content creators have been getting increasingly frustrated with Youtube's algorithms that demonetize their videos and this means they have one less alternative to turn towards.
Um... (Score:5, Insightful)
Who?
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> Who?
Beyond that: "why?"
The fact that we don't know them means that Google never took me there... either they failed to promote their site or Google might have some reason to not show them to me.
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They're not huge, but I've been seeing them around more and more lately. People who attempt to make a living by posting videos on the internet keep searching for better options than youtube, because youtube is terrible for content creators, and vid.me is the most recent popular option. Trouble is, there's no money in it for the host, even youtube only breaks even, so they don't last long. Remember Blip? Same thing.
In a bid to create a pathway to sustainability... (Score:4, Interesting)
... an unknown video platform began publishing news of their eminent demise on random tech aggregation sites.
Use this one weird trick to launch your YouTube knockoff company!
Who? (Score:3, Insightful)
Never heard of them. But a lot of people have been trying - to various levels of success to squeeze free money out of YouTube. Sorry, but YouTube owns them nothing. If you can make money on YouTube, fine, but if you don't have a business arrangement with the Googlies, don't be crying when they change up the rules...
Re:Who? (Score:4, Interesting)
Sorry, Google can't have it both ways. When you use the site, you need to agree to terms and conditions. That's a commercial contract - that's a business relationship. People can gripe all they want as far as I'm concerned. If enough of them gripe together, they might even change their side of the deal for the better.
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Yeah, but some really good channels have been impacted: Cody's Lab, AvE, EEVblog, bigclivedotcom, ElectroBOOM... all have spent time in recent episodes showing how it impacts them.
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That doesn't sound like the case here. From what I can tell, Vid.me was essentially an alternative to Youtube - it allows people to upload their videos, control who can advertise on them, and offer subscription/tip services to their creators.
All sounds like a perfectly fine idea - kinda like Youtube but with the monetary structure of Twitch and/or Patreon built-in.
The issue, likely, is that like you, I had never heard of them until today, and I'm betting most other people hadn't either.
Also, to really comp
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It's almost certainly true that Alphabet/Youtube owes those content creators nothing in a contractual sense, since the terms of service and payment plans are all written by them on a "take it or leave it" basis. Like it seems every other technology company (and no few non
Advertisers pay more for video. (Score:2)
For what it's worth, I don't think trying to create popular content so as to get a slice of the advertising revenue is "free money". After all, that's what most websites try to do, does it matter if the platform is Youtube or Wordpress?
Advertisers are willing to pay more for preroll video inventory than for text or static image inventory.
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It's not even a TOS thing. Advertisers are a very conservative bunch, and they have a whole list of topics to which they will and will not advertise with.
What happened was Google screwed up and a few of those ads were show
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As for thin-skinned advertisers, I can understand why they are tha
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The issue on the table is convenience. YouTube and iTunes are convenient because people already go there. I check my YouTube subscriptions every day. Its like turning on the TV and looking at what the DVR h
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Joe Rogan does tho, and that just on YouTube numbers, and he also streams elsewhere. Significantly bigger than all the CNN talking heads combined.
On the subject of Crowder, I think he has found a good way to monetize while being demonetized. His Mug Club seems to be paying for half a dozen employees. I find that incredible.
It's never in Google search results... (Score:1)
...whenever I search around for videos. And these are for videos that I personally uploaded and know are the only copies. YouTube videos appear in results almost instantly. DailyMotion videos usually appear after a day or two, sometimes a week. Vid.me videos never appear in results.
I don't know if that's Google's fault or theirs, but they can't have a web business without traffic.
Eli the Computer Guy... (Score:1)
Eli the Computer Guy on YouTube has a series of videos on his dealing with VidMe six months ago. Hilarious stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=eli+the+computer+guy+vidme [youtube.com]
Google does not care! (Score:2)
I couldn't find video views per month, but vid.me is apparently getting about 20 million "visits" a month. Youtube gets near 150 billion "video views" per month (nearly 5 billion / day from the billion+ unique users). 150 billion / 20 million = 7500. So, if every single visit to vid.me is resulting in a video view, they are still 1 / 7500th of Youtube's traffic. They are ranked somewhere between 2000th and 7000th in the world depending on which traffic ranking site you look at. Vid.me is nobody.
So, yeh, why
DUH (Score:3)