6/25/2014 Video Ink
Everyone is building a YouTube competitor. Right?
Not exactly — though it’s easy to see why a well-resourced company would want to.
Why? Because, quite frankly, there is nothing else quite like YouTube. Sure, there are some competitors in the video space that are open platforms with video embed functionality like Dailymotion and Vimeo. But neither have the competitive scale.
But as we’ve learned repeatedly over the past year, YouTube is not exactly the best for building a profitable business if you rely solely on it for revenue. And where there’s weakness, there’s opportunity.
And there’s a handful of companies gunning to take a bite out of YouTube’s business.
While various companies are not building “direct” YouTube competitors, there are six companies starting to build syndication plays for subscriber-dominant YouTube creators looking for additional revenue ops.
In a way, it’s windowing in the YouTube economy, where the commodity is the creator and the relationship with his or her fans, instead of any particular piece of content he or she creates.
Six companies are strategically making moves to swoop in on YouTube’s business. Click below to read why and how each is doing so.
1. Yahoo
4. Facebook
6. Fullscreen
http://www.thevideoink.com/features/six-companies-taking-youtube/#.U9mOt6gpEaK