In order to suceed with it they need to do the following:
1. Do not do mistakes youtube did with its awful interface.
2. do not do the mistakes youtube did with its player/video handling that left quite a few videos crippled and bugs still rile players.
3. allow all users to upload content without fearing random fake companies reporting them without reason that automatically blocks content. Make the people making the claim provide the proof. you know, how it is done in the legal system.
4. invest in video storage. high defintion content is increasing rapidly. youtube HD compression is so bad people do not see a difference between SD and HD sometimes. Make the compression less severe and allow the high definition and above content actually look like its high definition.
Unless they do all 4 of these they are not going to suceed. I have very little faith they will suceed.
There is another, 5th factor that would be very helpful.
5. Allow video content to be uploaded at 60 or more frames per second. This is important to any computer footage. And so far only Dailymotion allows that (youtube automatically recompress it to 25fps), so you would have a selling point that competition doesnt have. one thats clearly visible.
rasputin0009 said:
Since yahoo is the opposite of everything good, I can't see this doing that well. Youtube works by having very replaceable video producers and marketing the shit out of all the top ones. Even if Yahoo steals Jenna Marbles and Pewdiepie, the next ones in line will just fill their place. Plus it's the internet, and artist loyalty is not one of its strengths. For example, you'd eventually forget about Jim Sterling if he moved to a lesser known site to host his content. Maybe not right away, but eventually.
Actually, if Yahoo steals Jenna Marbles and Pewdiemoron youtube would improve significantly just by that fact.
However if there is anything that would make me move to another service as my primary, that would be Jim Sterling.