Yahoo is still trying: Yahoo Reportedly Working On YouTube Competitor
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It's yahoo, it won't work or go well for them.
I can't remember what it was but yahoo was into something that made me think they are gonna stick around for a while longer. I wish I could remember what I read about that gave me that opinion.
[QUOTE=DigitalySane;44394114]It's yahoo, it won't work or go well for them.[/QUOTE]
you forget how big yahoo is in parts of asia
Yahoo should stick to the chocolate milk industry, it's the only thing they do well.
[QUOTE=kidwithsword;44393030]Who cares? We need someone out there who is at least going to try to compete with YouTube. YouTube's monopoly is bad because we only have one really solid choice for everyone at the moment; there's just nothing that comes close to it.
Maybe if enough companies try to compete, at least one will do something really well and will steal some ground from YouTube.
And Yahoo being as relevant as it was back in the day would be a really impressive turnaround, too.[/QUOTE]
Maybe another set up will actually gain ground when they can come close to actually being as good as youtube is.
Vimeo is great though.
[QUOTE=Lurk;44394484]Yahoo should stick to the chocolate milk industry, it's the only thing they do well.[/QUOTE]
Sorry to ruin your dreams but:
[IMG]http://www.yoo-hoo.com/images/products/yoo-hoo_chocolate_12oz-bottle_l.png[/IMG]
It's Y[B]oo[/B]hoo.
[QUOTE=Radical Rebel;44395190]Sorry to ruin your dreams but:
[IMG]http://www.yoo-hoo.com/images/products/yoo-hoo_chocolate_12oz-bottle_l.png[/IMG]
It's Y[B]oo[/B]hoo.[/QUOTE]
Actually
[img]http://tschilledfoods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/yazoo-chocolate.jpg[/img]
It's ya[B]z[/B]oo
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;44393015]And Vimeo.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't call Vimeo a YouTube competitor since they aim to host short films from independent makers which most times brings them great amount of attention
YouTube is just a clusterfuck of everything
[editline]30th March 2014[/editline]
I have a feeling this could work, it's possible they may of got some help from the Tumblr staff and maybe Flickr since their way of content management has worked for them a lot (but their video player is balls)
I just hope this service doesn't force you to have an account to comment or even upload videos, looser restrictions which brings more freedom to create, a beautiful layout, good profile design, a decent video player and a decent mobile app
If it has those things, I'm sold
60fps, better compression, decent layout that doesn't change every few months? Please?
At this point, I'd like an alternative ever since Google completely assraped the site. I'm sick of signing in and choosing account names every time I load the page up, even though I haven't cleared any browser settings or otherwise.
I think if a site pays creators more money, they will have no problem attracting those creators.
To attract viewers. just go back to how Youtube was. This is where I think Yahoo will stumble. Viewers really don't want to have to tie their video site activities to their other accounts. Can Yahoo resist the temptation to require a Yahoo account to post comments on a video site they create? I doubt it.
Reading this thread I just realized that the feature list for being better than Youtube isn't that long
-Pay your content partners more
-Allow 60fps videos
-Make a simple comment system that is ordered by time of posting and not voodoo magic
-No account merge bullshit
-Have a better copyright system
-Don't fuck up the web design
The hardest things on the list are the last two, and those are becoming easier by the day :v:
I'm not sure they'll succeed but I hope they do. Youtube's becoming a real pile of garbage lately. I'm not sure though because Yahoo's servers seem really slow lately. Ever since shortly after acquiring Tumblr it takes a good 5 seconds for my email to actually load after loading the page.
[QUOTE=Starship;44396387][B]60fps[/B], better compression, decent layout that doesn't change every few months? Please?[/QUOTE]
As nice as it would be the reason for the framerate being lower is a very valid one. Higher framerate means a larger file size so for a popular video site the framerate is very important.
I just realized that YouTube is the United States of the various video sites. It even has similar pros and cons.
On the "pro" side, great things and massive fame/fortune come from it, everyone and their grandmother knows about it, it plays host to an amazing range of cultures and people, and it serves as the birthplace of many extremely talented and well-known entertainment personalities.
As for "cons", it's run mostly by idiots and/or lazy folks at the highest governing levels, it has security measures in place that go wrong frequently or don't work at all, a lot of shit is just broken in general, a tiny but highly-vocal percentage of the population screeches retardedly at every chance, and you'll wind up either instantly kicked out or with a permanent strike on your record for tiny mistakes.
The U.S. and YouTube do have crucial differences, however, and those differences are that the U.S. can actually be tolerable for longer than 5 seconds and isn't the only option.
We'll there's creators cast. Which is coming back and might seem good this time.
i'm split
I'd like there to be options but also I'm lazy and don't want to have multiple accounts just to follow people who make videos, it would also divide communities like let's players and such
Ugh, Yahoo has a bad habit of making user content driven websites, then suddenly wiping them off the internet. Such a loss of people's data is depressing.
Also, I think a more decentralized P2P Hybrid system would be nice: it would help prevent the throttling that Comcast, Verizon, and other providers do, and let highly requested videos stream quicker.
Problem Is with all of this, I don't think Yahoo has the infrastructure to pull this off well: M$ does, but Yahoo would have to use another provider, or pay a lot in colo fees.
[QUOTE=glitchvid;44398270]Ugh, Yahoo has a bad habit of making user content driven websites, then suddenly wiping them off the internet. Such a loss of people's data is depressing.
Also, I think a more decentralized P2P Hybrid system would be nice: it would help prevent the throttling that Comcast, Verizon, and other providers do, and let highly requested videos stream quicker.
Problem Is with all of this, I don't think Yahoo has the infrastructure to pull this off well: M$ does, but Yahoo would have to use another provider, or pay a lot in colo fees.[/QUOTE]
Pretty sure Yahoo has all the facilities it needs, fuck they've got 1TB free storage on Flickr for images and they have Tumblr which requires a lot of resources to make it stable
Yahoo could pull this off quite well, they just can't afford to fuck it up
Imagine yahoo answers in video form.
[QUOTE=Starship;44396387]60fps, better compression, decent layout that doesn't change every few months? Please?[/QUOTE]
This and no google+
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;44393015]And Vimeo.[/QUOTE]
Vimeo spun itself around as a short films/minor director projects thing at least.
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;44393015]And Vimeo.[/QUOTE]
vimeo [I]has[/I] succeeded though, at least up to the point where it has its own defined niche and is pretty widely supported all over the internet
Vimeo is the shit, it makes me so happy whenever people add integration for it, because it IS the better video platform.
I honestly think Yahoo can do it, they own Tumblr and Flickr, two of the biggest media-sharing sites on the internet. It wouldn't be a huge step.
I bet you it'll be worse than Tumblr's abysmal video player.
I've hated googletube ever since they switched channel browsing from a page number system to the "load more" button that means if you watch a video and then go back when done watching it, instead of going to the page you were on and being able to find the next video, you get shot back to the top of the page and have to hit "load more" a thousand fucking times to find where you were.
Yahootube hopefully can at least provide competition.
[QUOTE=zakedodead;44408212]I've hated googletube ever since they switched channel browsing from a page number system to the "load more" button that means if you watch a video and then go back when done watching it, instead of going to the page you were on and being able to find the next video, you get shot back to the top of the page and have to hit "load more" a thousand fucking times to find where you were.
Yahootube hopefully can at least provide competition.[/QUOTE]
Why wouldn't you just open the video in a new tab to bypass that problem?
[QUOTE=Alice3173;44408240]Why wouldn't you just open the video in a new tab to bypass that problem?[/QUOTE]
I do, but I shouldn't have to.
I hope it will be called [url]www.wrangle.com[/url]
If they put their focus on high quality video, a good video player (!), and a good layout then it could get [I]some[/I] attention. If they made it 60fps then I'd be sold.
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