I am new to animation, but I have been a software developer for 20 years, and during that time YouTube has grown and changed considerably.

What started out as a free platform to exchange ideas has turned into an ad revenue, advertiser friendly, content censorship platform. 

Not just animated videos, but I see some terrific content that gets so few views it is obvious YouTube doesn't even attempt a fair playing field for content creators to show their content to the world and get noticed.

I am building a website and domain called Lava Pub (www.lavapub.com - not live yet), and the original intent was audio books and open source software, to compete with Audible (owned by Amazon that only pays authors 40% after an author spends months or years writing a book, paying for editing and a narrator or recording an audiobook) and Amazon deserves 60% for being the checkout window. Also CodePlex which was owned by Microsoft used to pay open source developers some ad revenue share, and it was very lame, but it was a trip or two to Starbucks for open source development I was going to do anyway. Then Microsoft shuts down CodePlex, and buys GitHub for 7.5 Billion which doesn't pay open source developers anything.

Lava Pub could also have the same business model to give content creators 80% of all ad revenue (after credit card fees) to video creators. 



And for the part that I think will help the site promote itself, is make this a site that wall street can't buy into. 

Shares of stock would be doled out to the first person to have (downloads / sales / views) reach the next prime number (just to be nerdy). And once a piece of content has been awarded a share, it can't win again so Gangnam Style wouldn't win them all type thing. The same person / channel can be awarded shares for other content though. 

A few things that I think all people would like is the ability to have custom channel names before you get 10,000 subscribers.
Allow users to use custom video title urls (www.lavapub.com/MyChannel/MyVideo is a lot easier to remember than youtu.be/asas93lsch type stuff.
Allow advertisers to bid to be your sponsor for a month. Bids for product placement, t-shirt / cap wearing, etc.
Make the price to reserve a channel name / title name like $1 just to keep people from hoarding premium unused names.

I am just fed up with YouTube only recommending videos that are already popular. Does anyone else feel that way?

Thanks







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You mean like Vimeo?

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Well I can't argue with the fact that most videos on You tube get buried, but I guess that's a natural consequence of increased 'population'.
But I also get what you mean about not being a level playing field. Such is the power of money (unfortunately) 
Which is why you've come to this idea ..... Well it sounds great - I think it's a big idea to take on - but that's no reason not to do it.
The only question is - once (if) you *make it* successful - will you 'up' your rates and then offer customers say, just 35% ???  lol ... 
(Just kidding)

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One thing I have noticed with uTube view counting.
 I'm not 100% sure my notice is correct yet but what I have noticed is if I watch one of my uTube videos by playing it from within the forum or by playing it from within a pack in my store. utube does not count the watch. It only seems to count it if its watched from inside uTube itself



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I have noticed the same thing with Reddit when you link to a video, the views won't count.

I have heard of Vimeo, but never used it. Does it pay 80% of ad revenue to content creators?

I just think product placement should be open to everyone, not just premium channels. I know companies that would send a t-shirt to a channel to have someone wear it, and I know people that run channels that would wear a sponsors shirt in a video, for free just to get the shirt. 

The way I look at it, most people would do better on a site with less videos for a user to watch, rather than more.

YouTube banning Alex Jones (which I don't agree with), but they also banned Jordan Peterson. Have you ever listened to him? Just because you are not a liberal doesn't give YouTube the right to ban someone.








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I'm not particularly interested in monetizing, so in that sense I'm not a very good candidate. I am interested in distribution and exposure.

I have a Vimeo account, but as a video distribution channel it is less effective for me than YouTube, simply because it is not that well known.

What I don't like about YouTube is that because of the mass distribution there are a lot of trolls out there with bogus copyright claims. I had one on one of my videos, although I legally owned the music I used (it was from a Sony CineScore CD). It turned out that the claimant had taken Sony's music and published it as their own. It's annoying but wasn't worth a fight in this case.

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Unfortunately, you lost me with the bit about Alex Jones and Jordan Peterson at the end.
sorry

pete 


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It's like I have a store on the main drag with YouTube, even if there are a few potholes on that street, as opposed to a store on a freshly paved side street that few travel...that's what is important to me I'm thinking!



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Last time I used my Vimeo account a few years ago, it didn't have ads, it had a tip jar. 

But my main concern with using any new platform is the "Twitch" itch... ie the itch for ap developers to sell out to the highest bidder for a few gazillion after a year or two anyhow, even though it's the content providers who are the ones pouring out far more of their hearts and creativity. 


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Just my 2 cents

1- If people said "yes" to the youtube liscence agrements , so they accept that youtube can make what they want.
It's a private company and not yours
2- Youtube gives us a huge amount of storage with big bandwith (4K) , 7/7 days 24 hours maintenance for free
and accessible worlwide.
3- Youtube is the best known broadcaster worwilde and connected to the bigest socials networks
4- Today income are not with the ads but with the sponsors you have to find and show/talk about in your videos