Hey all, I just had an opportunity to record a conversation with Rene from @world5list. He's the owner of the YouTube channel World5list, which has 800,000 subscribers.
https://www.youtube.com/user/World5list
He's one of several people I've spoken with recently about how frustrating YouTube has become. Between demonetization of videos, outright censorship, and growing competition it's becoming less and less attractive for content creators.
Rene has been looking at Patreon and Steemit as two platforms that might offer him a legitimate alternative to YouTube (along with his business partner Angelo who runs TheyWillKillYou with 1,000,000 subscribers).
https://www.patreon.com/theywillkillyou
It seems to me that there are ways to support the central needs of both groups. Steem needs visibility to help grow our active user population and accounts. YouTube personalities need steady income streams to support their work. Pretty sure we can help one another. Steem can help the YouTube channel operators form a community and start shifting their efforts from YouTube centric to Steem first with a Youtube backup.
Steem can support them financially and they can use their reach to help raise awareness across the internet. I'm personally committed to helping this happen.
@world5list has agreed to release exclusive content not only to Patreon, but to Steemit as well, and basically shift to a busines model with a world premier on Steem and Patreon and archive on YouTube. These videos normally cost $20 for one-month early access, but they're providing it to us here on Steemit for free!
To give you an idea and to make this a little more concrete, here is a link to episode 2 of Escobar Uncovered - an extended interview with Pablo Escobars' former main hitman; part of a series that Angelo and Rene recorded in Medellin, Colombia. Several trailers and episode one are already publicly accesible on YouTube, but THIS episode is not yet available to the public and I am curious to see how the Steemit community feels about having exclusive access to this type of unique content. Do you think that this would add value to the platform as a whole? Is this something you would support with upvotes to potentially enable them to eventually abandon YouTube all together in favor of Steemit?!
In the end, these two populations need each other and should help solve one another's greatest challenges.
I'm hosting a YouTube/Media forum on mspwaves Satuday January 13 at 11am EST (1600 UTC). Hopefully you, some whales, some devs, and some youtube personalities representing millions of subscribers will come join us.
▶️ DTube
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Thanks again for having me on today. The more I talk to you, the more I believe that Steemit is a viable, worthy addition to the world5list brand and the theywillkillyou brand intitially, that can turn into a viable alternative for YouTube down the line. Looking forward to getting the getting the ball rolling on this in the next few days and weeks! Very interesting to listen to you and pick your brain about all this.
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Man, I had no idea about who was behind the series on Popeye but super interesting to find out it was you guys. I've lived here in Medellin for the last 5 years and so I've experienced first hand how the narco trade has effected the country. Great work on the series though. We'll see you over here on SteemIt when you begin to make the transition eventually. ;) This type of content will be a smash hit here!!
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Amazing idea. This is just pure value creation for steem, for Youtubers and for steemians. Love it
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Youtube also makes commenting seem like something that looks like they do not want you to do, comments are unwanted on youtube, they had many updates to try and make commenting less of a thing they wanted you to do, commments are also automatically hidden when a video page comes up and then it takes 20 seconds to load comments and even then, they are difficult to even read. Steemit's D.tube is more comfortable community than was Vidme, which buckled under the pressure of the competition recently.
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This could mean 1,800,000 more steemians!!!
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Youtube is becoming filthy nowadays. All the ads in the beginning and during videos are so annoying. And also the clickbaits video are a problem.
With the recent grow of Steem we can expect many youtubers join our community which is great because they will let know their followers on youtube about this site and for sure many will join. Great times ahead!
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Ou.l know this.Really World5list is wonderful and I think everyone should watch the videos...I will exactly record with Rene...@aggroed If you don't share this post, really i lose a lot... I believe that Steemit will strengthen more and our team will become biggest and best👍👍
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I've recently tried to upload a video to Dtube and I must say that the business model is vastly superior to youtube. What's the point of liking and disliking a video when it provides no monetary incentive for the content creators? Honestly, I think it's just a matter of time before the masses converge and convert to Dtubers!
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nice post
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this is amazing, i personally think this is the way to go, having great content creators on steemit, it will not only make them money but will make their audience steemit users too and thats a ton of growth, its a great idea
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Nice post
Pls i need help ... Am new help..pls help upvote my post and resteem it pls
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I like the idea of bringing Youtubers over here. I like the idea of new content even more. I have cut way down on my Youtube viewing time. Mostly I get ticked off they will have a 5 or 7 minute commercial at the beginning. I see no sense in sitting through a commercial that is sometimes halve the length of the content, no matter how much I might want to support the creator.
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Fantastic...thanks for share this kind of posts to inform people about steem
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Great brother!!!
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This update is timely. People like @world5list will not only bring content to Steemit, they'll bring value to the platform. Free access for what should cost $20 access fee!
That's a plus to you @aggroed.
You deserve an applause.
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Your video with a great story, I saw the video, I really liked the video, much better than many videos through your video
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This world will not survive much longer...just look at those countries and that clown claiming they have 20 percent of all $100 bills...that’s horseshit how would they know...but if they don’t start depleting the world of its human inhabitants and get the population down under 2 billion or less than it will cease to exist..you look at South America and those little babies and children starving, Africa, all the starvation but yet all the countries that their citizens are starving STILL reproduce...instead of letting those people keep multiplying day after day they should put a stop to it...like making sure every male from the age of 13 gets clipped to prevent them from having kids that are only gonna suffer and the girls making sure their fixed to stop all the starvation of the babies they bring into this over populated world with all its problems...it’s so so sad seeing those babies and young children starving to death but yet that mother still pumps babies out...
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This is a genuinely positive use of the Steemit platform. More of this content should be promoted and created.
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Thank you for watching a great post. I look forward to seeing more beautiful posts for you
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It's really fantastic!!
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Fantastic
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Thanks for sharing your vedio and i also like your post...the vedio is so great... @aggroed
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Great post with some of my closest friends and great content they made about Escobar.
Resteemed for my followers
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