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All those things are overrated, putting up some videos on YouTube is no guarantee of an audience. You still have promotional work to do. And it’s not nearly as expensive to host videos now compared to the past.


I’ve been very happy with Cloudflare Stream lately. We stream ~2-3k mins/day and have never had a complaint.


Unfortunately Cloudflare has a history of censoring content as well though.


What? That... one time they took down a site? That site which claimed it was endorsed by cloudflare?

One incident isn't enough to become a 'history', and their actions were perfectly justified.


Fair point. I thought I remembered more incidents than the one. But looking in to it more I don’t see any. I should have done more research before trusting my faulty memory.


Hosting and serving video is a real barrier to uploading content for the vast majority.

Also people don’t want to go to random sites for video, they like YouTube itself. Most video is discovered and watched entirely within, not from external links.




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