Video is Coming to Reddit

Post by d23 » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 10:29 PM UTC

mandie wrote: post #11

minimaxir wrote: post #7

A couple months ago I found that Reddit submissions using Reddit's native image hosting, a year after its implementation, surpassed those of its main competitor, Imgur (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14595212 ) I'm not entirely sure the same will happen with video. Not only are the videos typically posted on Reddit's largest video subreddits are from the YouTube community (and intended for the Yo…

Image hosting is easy, if you don't care about losing money. As long as you provide direct links to images, you're better than everybody else. Video hosting? You need a good player (nothing will ever top YouTube's) and a good CDN. That's a tough nut to crack. Especially for a company with no money.

Post by fweespeech » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 10:54 PM UTC

goeric wrote: post #41

koolba wrote: post #36

> If you’ve spent any time on r/HighQualityGifs, r/mealtimevideos, or just about any other Reddit community, you know that videos and gifs represent a major proportion of the content shared on our site. But prior to this launch, content creators had to go through a time-consuming, circuitous process to post videos, using third-party hosting platforms, copying URLs, and sharing them as link posts. This inhibited many…

I think it's pretty simple and I always wondered why they didn't do it sooner. Reddit is already one of the most popular sites on the Internet - but since it was just an aggregator it constantly took users off their site. Now they're owning more and more of the content and keeping users there longer. Sure, video is expensive, but now they have a much bigger revenue opportunity. They can't monetize videos they don't h…

Post by tome » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 11:08 PM UTC

pmoriarty wrote: post #55

j-walker wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't get what they're plan is. "This launch is a giant step forward in our efforts to bring rich content to Reddit, following last year’s release of native image hosting and our introduction of native video ads earlier this year." Which means having to watch a 30 second ad before a 15second video clip.

"Which means having to watch a 30 second ad before a 15second video clip." Hopefully you'll be able to just use youtube-dl or a similar app to download the video and skip the ads, just as you can for videos that are on youtube.

Post by passivepinetree » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 11:24 PM UTC

tome wrote: post #75

pmoriarty wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Which means having to watch a 30 second ad before a 15second video clip." Hopefully you'll be able to just use youtube-dl or a similar app to download the video and skip the ads, just as you can for videos that are on youtube.

Even simpler, Ad Block Plus or UBlock Origin block adverts on YouTube. I'm not sure which it is because I've got both, but I definitely notice the annoying difference when I watch YouTube on another browser!

Post by olegkikin » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 11:57 PM UTC

goeric wrote: post #41

koolba wrote: post #36

> If you’ve spent any time on r/HighQualityGifs, r/mealtimevideos, or just about any other Reddit community, you know that videos and gifs represent a major proportion of the content shared on our site. But prior to this launch, content creators had to go through a time-consuming, circuitous process to post videos, using third-party hosting platforms, copying URLs, and sharing them as link posts. This inhibited many…

I think it's pretty simple and I always wondered why they didn't do it sooner. Reddit is already one of the most popular sites on the Internet - but since it was just an aggregator it constantly took users off their site. Now they're owning more and more of the content and keeping users there longer. Sure, video is expensive, but now they have a much bigger revenue opportunity. They can't monetize videos they don't h…