Intelligent people make decisions based on opportunity costs. - Charlie Munger
True story, Charlie.
I think YouTube's Managers were not too intelligent when they decided on ignoring hundreds of global influencers, high stake players, content cracks and high potential users that were desperately knocking on their door.
Copyright issues, a chaotic appeal system, unjustified restrictions of advertisement and upload features are parts of the complaint chain youtubers are currently dealing with.
Well if you don't listen to your most valuable customers, then somebody else does.
With DTube (dtube.video) a solid decentralized project is entering the online video market now.
Terrific!
I made a test and spent $100 to promote a video on Youtube. Then I published the same content on Steemit and earned $180. Brace yourself, YouTube! We're all gonna be DTubers in the future!
Games are changing!
I built some walls. What I built, represents maybe 1% of the work required to have something that can compete with YouTube. -
When announcing the launch of DTube - 
While I personally believe that decentralization is the future, don't get your hopes too high yet. Competing with YouTube is an heavy task that cannot be done by one man.
There is no doubt about the fact that it's going to be a tough task.
However, I'm pretty much convinced that this application will be a game changer!
Here's why video views generated on Steemit are already more valuable than on YouTube:
Three weeks ago I decided on promoting one of my surf videos on YouTube.
During one week the following ad was supposed to bring valuable traffic to my YouTube channel:
With regards to views the performance was pretty well.
The ratio impressions / views was > 40%, so in the end more than 7,000 views were generated.
I spent $106.40 for 7,621 views.
So I paid $0.014 per view.
However, during the whole campaign period NOT ONLY ONE new subscriber started to follow my channel.
The promoted video had an outstanding reach, but with no ongoing impact for my brand in general.
Conclusion: While the price of $100 for 7,000 views is reasonable, the users who supposedly "watched" my video didn't really engage with the content!
On Steemit I had a completely different experience.
The mentioned piece of content [What happens when a surfergirl and a musician decide to cooperate] was the most successful video I've published so far!
While I literally lost money on YouTube, on Steemit my efforts were more than paid-off, both related to money and growth!
On Steemit the vlog received more than 500 views and was rewarded with more than $180 (EDIT: See exact payout in USD in the comment section).
Are Top YouTubers even getting more than $150 for one single video?
I'm nobody on YouTube, so maybe the big players are making thousands of dollars per post. But actually I can't really believe that.
Furthermore - and this is the more valuable part - I was able to generate more than 60 (!) new followers with this piece of content. (Source: steemdb)
These numbers are evidence: to me personally it is far more beneficial publishing video content on Steemit (DTube) than on Youtube.
Build a door or an application on the blockchain 😉
It's as 
I got chillz, we are changing the world.
YES, we do.
Have a great day, steemians!
Marly -
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