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Has IMDb considered becoming a video-sharing and audio-sharing platform?
Joe Rogan will be gone from YouTube by the end of the year, and his podcast (The Joe Rogan Experience), both video and audio versions, will be available exclusively on Spotify.
He's one of tens of thousands of disaffected YouTubers, who are being pushed off the platform. YouTube, it seems, wants to change into a competitor of Netflix. It looks as though most, if not all, the independent content creators will be pushed out. Many are already gone. And the first to go were any channels with edgy content―as edgy or far edgier than Rogan's.
This looks to me like an opportunity for IMDb to take in all these disaffected content creators. I'd give IMDb a grade of B+ when it comes to censorship. In a few minor ways (with the keywords, for instance), they've bent the knee to political correctness. But on the whole, they've been excellent at resisting attempts at censorship. (Their parent company, Amazon, by contrast, can be real book burners.)
IMDb already has data ABOUT these content creators. How natural would it be to allow them to upload all their CONTENT to the data pages?
Maybe IMDb could later move to allowing creators to monetize this content, like YouTube does (used to). But even without monetization, there are thousands of content creators who just want to be free to speak their mind. That's why alternative platforms, like BitChute, Minds.com and Gab.ai, are growing.
If IMDb is looking to grow, I can't think of a faster or more natural way than to pick up what YouTube is (foolishly, I think) discarding.
See Joe Rogan's announcement: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAYSqQLFP_l/?igshid=145vpohh7ddan
See London Real's announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL57xyD5eic
He's one of tens of thousands of disaffected YouTubers, who are being pushed off the platform. YouTube, it seems, wants to change into a competitor of Netflix. It looks as though most, if not all, the independent content creators will be pushed out. Many are already gone. And the first to go were any channels with edgy content―as edgy or far edgier than Rogan's.
This looks to me like an opportunity for IMDb to take in all these disaffected content creators. I'd give IMDb a grade of B+ when it comes to censorship. In a few minor ways (with the keywords, for instance), they've bent the knee to political correctness. But on the whole, they've been excellent at resisting attempts at censorship. (Their parent company, Amazon, by contrast, can be real book burners.)
IMDb already has data ABOUT these content creators. How natural would it be to allow them to upload all their CONTENT to the data pages?
Maybe IMDb could later move to allowing creators to monetize this content, like YouTube does (used to). But even without monetization, there are thousands of content creators who just want to be free to speak their mind. That's why alternative platforms, like BitChute, Minds.com and Gab.ai, are growing.
If IMDb is looking to grow, I can't think of a faster or more natural way than to pick up what YouTube is (foolishly, I think) discarding.
See Joe Rogan's announcement: https://www.instagram.com/p/CAYSqQLFP_l/?igshid=145vpohh7ddan
See London Real's announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL57xyD5eic
charles_paxton_martin
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4 years ago
This is a timely and well reasoned proposal which could be interesting for all concerned, and could rescue many interestingly sites from oblivion.
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