Technician Posted June 8, 2014 Remember when Blip was purchased by Maker Studios last year and people needlessly panicked over it? Well it turns out they were right. Blip to going to terminate a huge majority of content providers and keep authors that bring in serious coinage. Maker Studio was just recently bought by Walt Disney. That's probably to blame. Anybody here got the memo? 0 Share this post Link to post
Jodwin Posted June 8, 2014 Makes sense. Having to support less independent content creators requires less resources from them, and supposedly concentrating on quality content is in theory going to improve their profile. Besides, there's still Dailymotion for people who don't want to use Youtube for whatever reason. 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted June 8, 2014 Jodwin said:Makes sense. Having to support less independent content creators requires less resources from them, and supposedly concentrating on quality content is in theory going to improve their profile. Besides, there's still Dailymotion for people who don't want to use Youtube for whatever reason. Blip was arguably the last bastion for content creators who want to get both paid and avoid YouTube's overzealous copyright robots. Dailymotion is a pretty decent host, it's just never escalated in popularity and probably never will. It's essentially YouTube without all the porn rules. As bigger companies buyout more and more service providers and platforms, we'll see our resources more and more limited. 0 Share this post Link to post
geekmarine Posted June 8, 2014 That's a damn shame. There are some real quality producers out there getting canned. It's always the shows that are less mindless entertainment and more informative, too. Reminds me of how channels like Discovery and TLC got dumbed down over the years. And I get it, if your dry, informative show isn't pulling in the viewers, then it's pulling resources, and there's just no way profit can't be the bottom line - it's just a shame there's no model to reward people who actually do hard work, who actually create meaningful and thoughtful content, that it always has to be about the lowest common denominator. It's like, we keep developing these things that could be great educational tools, and yet it never works out that way. I mean, even without a monetary value, educational content is hugely beneficial, I think, I just wish there were a way to monetize that so such content could be supported. 0 Share this post Link to post
geo Posted June 8, 2014 I'm dumb to the subject. So did they just buy Blip for the Youtube subscribers? They could have easily just contracted the best talent to make Blip worthless. 0 Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted June 8, 2014 Never liked the term content creator, sounds so official, why not just say some shmuck sitting in his bedroom with a webcam? Or I'm a content creator too then since I just created the content of this post I guess. Wooo. 0 Share this post Link to post
geo Posted June 8, 2014 Memfis said:Never liked the term content creator, sounds so official, why not just say some shmuck sitting in his bedroom with a webcam? Or I'm a content creator too then since I just created the content of this post I guess. Wooo. You're totally a content creator. I think the posters are a bigger content creator than the schmucks that make videos. Google / Youtube cares more about the comments, likes, consistent video watches to completion than they do the actual content. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nomad Posted June 8, 2014 Looks like Google/Youtube is buying out Twitch.tv as well, so look forward to a lot of channels getting taken down for dubious DMCA violations. Also probably forced G+ integration. 0 Share this post Link to post
Technician Posted June 8, 2014 Nomad said:Looks like Google/Youtube is buying out Twitch.tv as well, so look forward to a lot of channels getting taken down for dubious DMCA violations. Also probably forced G+ integration. That's a real shame, as Twitch specifically catered to gamers. Youtube has penalized game contributors the hardest since around January with it's new copyright policies. 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted June 8, 2014 I hope all the guys getting the pay for selling out their awesome companies to these behemoths waste all their money on frivilous garbage and then come to grim realizations that they should have held onto the thing they dreamed of creating instead of throwing it away and letting it turn into trash. 0 Share this post Link to post
Linkrulezall Posted June 8, 2014 Technician said:Remember when Blip was purchased by Maker Studios last year and people needlessly panicked over it? Well it turns out they were right. Blip to going to terminate a huge majority of content providers and keep authors that bring in serious coinage. Maker Studio was just recently bought by Walt Disney. That's probably to blame. Anybody here got the memo? Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't that already happen months ago? blip.tv/CammehYaBams blip.tv/DLAbaoaqu blip.tv/MadisonSkull blip.tv/TheRPArchive 0 Share this post Link to post
CorSair Posted June 8, 2014 Right, sketch mark on Blip. So, when Dailymotion goes out of service? 0 Share this post Link to post
StevieWolfe Posted June 8, 2014 Is it safe to say that Disney has pretty much monopolized everything media related or...what? Because honestly it seems that is what they are trying to do and that doesn't make me feel very comfortable at all. 0 Share this post Link to post
clamgor Posted June 9, 2014 Nomad said:Also probably forced G+ integration. I hear they're gonna pull the plug on G+ soon. Hopefully it's true. It does feel uncomfortable whenever a company or service you like and use gets bought out and things change, usually for the worse. There are lesser and lesser options to choose from now that these corporations are buying out small companies. 0 Share this post Link to post
Linkrulezall Posted June 9, 2014 Crasger said:I hear they're gonna pull the plug on G+ soon. Hopefully it's true. Judging by how many people jumped ship on G+ development and the main engineer behind it has been relocated to somewhere else in Google, this is indeed probable. 0 Share this post Link to post
clamgor Posted June 9, 2014 Linkrulezall said:Judging by how many people jumped ship on G+ development and the main engineer behind it has been relocated to somewhere else in Google, this is indeed probable. YES! YEEEES! Well, at least it looks as though they learn from their mistakes, unlike other certain corporations out there... 0 Share this post Link to post
geo Posted June 9, 2014 Crasger said:I hear they're gonna pull the plug on G+ soon. Hopefully it's true. It does feel uncomfortable whenever a company or service you like and use gets bought out and things change, usually for the worse. There are lesser and lesser options to choose from now that these corporations are buying out small companies. G+ was only made because Facebook was busted trying to make a smear campaign against Google. So Google said let's get into social media and bulldoze that trash. 0 Share this post Link to post
Carnevil Posted June 9, 2014 Crasger said:I hear they're gonna pull the plug on G+ soon. Hopefully it's true. But then how will we comment on YouTube videos??????? :( 0 Share this post Link to post
Quasar Posted June 9, 2014 Carnevil said:But then how will we comment on YouTube videos??????? :( Hopefully the way you used to - in a manner entirely self-contained on youtube itself and not requiring use of a second system. I tried doing the G+ integration, I was willing to tolerate it. But when I do it, I lose the ability to upload videos through Windows Movie Maker because it can't authenticate using G+ credentials and, once the accounts have been married, YouTube won't accept my older credentials any more either. fraggle said there was some way to fix it but it was really complicated and I didn't feel like it, so I ended up unintegrating my accounts again. This has left me unable to comment or rate comments on YouTube for the last better part of a year. The way it works now is idiotic and plagued with terrible problems, anyway - like when you see a reply to somebody and clicking the link just reloads the page you're looking at. Did anybody debug this stuff? Is anybody even still working on it at all? Do they even care if their sites are fundamentally broken?? 9_9 0 Share this post Link to post
printz Posted June 9, 2014 Quasar said:Is anybody even still working on it at all?No, it's all maintained by robots now. Metal bodies with metal hands clamping at the keyboard. Even if Google+ goes poof, you probably will still use a "Google account" to connect with all Google services under one name. Good thing we have separate browsers, so I can still use my Mark Printz personna for YouTube, and my real account for everything else Google. 0 Share this post Link to post
geo Posted June 9, 2014 Carnevil said:But then how will we comment on YouTube videos??????? :( Some famous youtubers like Yoggscast pulled the plug on their own comments, because they were tired of people fighting and spamming. 0 Share this post Link to post
clamgor Posted June 11, 2014 geo said:Some famous youtubers like Yoggscast pulled the plug on their own comments, because they were tired of people fighting and spamming. More popularity = More idiots jumping on the bandwagon The YouTube comments system was never a clean place to work in to begin with. I prefer the bottom of YouTube videos to be littered with comments, just, ones that I can actually understand and ones that aren't completely stupid. 0 Share this post Link to post
Jaxxoon R Posted June 11, 2014 I find it hilarious how so many video hosting sites kick small content creators in the nuts and then cling for life to the big hits, failing to realize that they were once just as small as everyone else. What the hell are they gonna do when they decide to go off and do whatever the hell they feel like with all their money? What the hell are they gonna do if these giants start to lose their luster and, without any other reason to be there, the precious viewerbase leaves? 0 Share this post Link to post
Tylerisepic1 Posted June 12, 2014 printz said:Metal bodies with metal hands clamping at the keyboard.. Isn't that kind of unethical? Why not just keyboard signals? 0 Share this post Link to post