Having previously looked at peertube, the problem is it's hard to make money out of it -- because of the p2p technology, it's hard to have control of your videos, put adverts in, track users, etc.
While peertube saves one big pile of money (the streaming costs), it makes it significantly harder to make any money. Videos are expensive to make, so generally creators want a wide audience, and ways to monetise that audience.
If creators moved to PeerTube they probably could still make money with sponsored content and donations like they already do on YouTube.
Of course, because of network effects and YouTube ad revenue there is little incentive to do so except for idealists and people who get banned on YouTube.
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Having previously looked at peertube, the problem is it's hard to make money out of it -- because of the p2p technology, it's hard to have control of your videos, put adverts in, track users, etc.
While peertube saves one big pile of money (the streaming costs), it makes it significantly harder to make any money. Videos are expensive to make, so generally creators want a wide audience, and ways to monetise that audience.
If creators moved to PeerTube they probably could still make money with sponsored content and donations like they already do on YouTube.
Of course, because of network effects and YouTube ad revenue there is little incentive to do so except for idealists and people who get banned on YouTube.
If you can't track your users/views/etc, it's hard to sell sponsors on the idea that your video is worth sponsoring.