How is it that such a shitty site/corporation has continued to maintain a grip on this market? Why aren’t we inundated with viable alternatives?

Hosting video is expensive?

That’s basically it. The only potential competitor is Twitch, but even then Amazon only really gets into free streaming content.

Google has cheap hosting costs and the best ad market in the industry. The only non-porn competitors either charge the uploader to host or charge the user to watch.

Yeah. Everyone thinks it’s easy to just “setup a YouTube”.

I support nebula which is a subscription service with some good creators. And because “fuck shorts and clickbait titles/thumbnails”.