Watched some full eps of old sitcoms on Dailymotion. Got reminded why Youtube still is winning this war, because the competition tend to be shit ass as well and just as ads brimmed.
The problem with almost all the sites is that they are just poor clones of YouTube.
e.g. Lets just take
one aspect of the YouTube that it absolutely excels at.. Playback reliability.
One of the biggest problems with YouTube alternatives is that they only work well on a super stable connections.
If you have slightly less than optimal connection. They will not work at all.
I won't use their fucking apps, as I shouldn't need to install an app to view a web page.
YouTube will work pretty much as long as you have a mobile signal on their feature reduced mobile site.
YouTube will also resume the player once it gets a connection again.
So you can lose 100% network access (I live in the hills) and it will continue as long as the tab hasn't gone to sleep on the phone.
This even works on live streams.
Compare this to Rumble/Kick (the most viable competitors IMO) they don't work well on a mobile connection.
Rumble mobile site requires you to manually set the playback quality. This
can't be done until the video starts playing so you have this weird Catch-22 where you can't lower the bitrate/quality until the higher quality player is loaded. This is because they have the UI options hidden when the player is loading.
Rumble's player can randomly resets if you lose connection, or just stops. Kick is similar, it will reset the stream to the start if playback is interrupted for more than 30 seconds. This is obviously super annoying while driving.
These edge cases don't seem important. But it shows the lack of polish that these competitors have.
This BTW is one aspect of the player. Go to the Rumble and compare it directly to YouTube, like each feature on the site and you will see that they are slightly worse or no equivalent functionality on everything.
This is why none of the competitors have a chance of winning against YouTube. Someone did a
whole essay about it here.
The TL;DR is here though:
We can call this The 1 Percent Rule. The 1 Percent Rule states that over time the majority of the rewards in a given field will accumulate to the people, teams, and organizations that maintain a 1 percent advantage over the alternatives. You don't need to be twice as good to get twice the results. You just need to be slightly better.
YouTube isn't just 1% better. It is normally twice as good in every aspect.
