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[–] 2 points 11 months ago

It's also quite expensive. YouTube only broke even for over a decade after Google got their hands on it, and Google can afford to host the servers, and manage distribution themselves.

A new player would find it much harder in today's landscape. When YouTube was made, it had the advantage that of not having that many viable competitors. That's no longer the case today.

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