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awalton on Oct 21, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t S...

Or you can do what https://www.vessel.com/ is doing and be subscription first and work out deals with producers for short-term exclusivity.

Honestly, I can't understand why anyone would take their content to YouTube exclusively right now given how hostile Google has become.

mcintyre1994 on Oct 22, 2015 [–]

How does exclusivity there work? Probably most content on YouTube is only uploaded there by the creators but that doesn't stop Facebook being covered in stuff stolen from there - if vessel got popular wouldn't the same happen?

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