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Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by glompers »

jerf wrote: post #36
browningstreet wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a little surprised there isn't more of this. Building a streaming service is pretty expensive.. a lot of the platforms lost money doing so and really only made it back when they merged into an umbrella of other services. I'm also a little surprised no one has yet (AFAIK) done the "viral indie release to Youtube" path. I feel like it's sitting there waiting to be exploited.

"I'm also a little surprised no one has yet (AFAIK) done the "viral indie release to Youtube" path. I feel like it's sitting there waiting to be exploited." There's a lot of "indies releasing things to YouTube directly". However, they're limited both by the algorithm and by the amount of money they can generate by that, so you get a fairly restricted set of genres that this can work with, like sketch comedy or (perha…

Vimeo has tried to prioritize indie feature discovery from what I can tell. Not sure what its ownership or business is. Also not sure how it compares to (in music) soundcloud's or bandcamp's approaches.

Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by slongfield »

robertlagrant wrote: post #86
lxgr wrote: post #30

Old movies have been available on various "free ad-supported streaming television" for a while now, so I'm actually more surprised it took copyright holders that long to realize that Youtube also shows ads and doesn't require people to install some wonky app that might or might not be available for their platform. Of course, region-specific copyright deals are incredibly complex etc. etc., so I could imagine it was j…

It would be really nice if YouTube could give uploaders the ability to schedule ad slots, rather than them appearing randomly. Unless they do this already and stuff I watch just does it badly, of course.

Yeah, YouTube's UI lets you set where the ads go. The creator tools let you set how many, and where midroll ads will play. However, most creators just click the "insert automatically" button.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6175006

Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by beretguy »

lxgr wrote: post #30

Old movies have been available on various "free ad-supported streaming television" for a while now, so I'm actually more surprised it took copyright holders that long to realize that Youtube also shows ads and doesn't require people to install some wonky app that might or might not be available for their platform. Of course, region-specific copyright deals are incredibly complex etc. etc., so I could imagine it was j…

> Youtube also shows ads

Not on my devices :)

Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by cptnapalm »

wbl wrote: post #116
tomaytotomato wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I discovered the Mission through an Ennio Morricone playlist, and didn't regret it. Not a religious person but it made me aware of who the Jesuits were and read up on them. Truly a fascinating part of the Catholic Church, they're like crack Navy Seals in religious terms, or 10x engineers of the Vatican :) I sometimes program whilst listening to "Gabriel's Oboe" on repeat for hours and hours https://www.youtube.com/wa…

What is the similarity between the Dominicans and the Jesuits? Both were started to fight heresy: the Dominicans the Cathars, the Jesuits the Protestants. Both were started by soldiers. Both have unique spiritual disciplines. What's the difference? Meet any Cathars lately?

10 out of 10. Would guffaw again.

Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by richiebful1 »

wbl wrote: post #116
tomaytotomato wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I discovered the Mission through an Ennio Morricone playlist, and didn't regret it. Not a religious person but it made me aware of who the Jesuits were and read up on them. Truly a fascinating part of the Catholic Church, they're like crack Navy Seals in religious terms, or 10x engineers of the Vatican :) I sometimes program whilst listening to "Gabriel's Oboe" on repeat for hours and hours https://www.youtube.com/wa…

What is the similarity between the Dominicans and the Jesuits? Both were started to fight heresy: the Dominicans the Cathars, the Jesuits the Protestants. Both were started by soldiers. Both have unique spiritual disciplines. What's the difference? Meet any Cathars lately?

To be fair, the Protestants had the printing press and significant political support on their side

Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by lotsofpulp »

xhkkffbf wrote: post #62

Why are some great films mixed with some duds? This is classic Hollywood accounting. They sell N files for $M and then split the revenue evenly. The great film gets $M/N and so does every dud. In practice, the great film's revenues have already "earned out" any advances so that $M/N must be shared with outsiders. Often, the duds haven't made enough so the studio gets to keep all $M/N. I don't know that's what they're…

The “Hollywood accounting” meme makes no sense. Anyone in the media production business can take 5 min to read the Wikipedia article on it (or use common sense) and learn that they should not accept compensation on terms completely controlled by the opposing party.

If they do, then they had no negotiating power in the first place, and so had nothing to lose by accepting those terms (because they were not going to get a better offer such as more cash upfront).

Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by bregma »

wbl wrote: post #116
tomaytotomato wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I discovered the Mission through an Ennio Morricone playlist, and didn't regret it. Not a religious person but it made me aware of who the Jesuits were and read up on them. Truly a fascinating part of the Catholic Church, they're like crack Navy Seals in religious terms, or 10x engineers of the Vatican :) I sometimes program whilst listening to "Gabriel's Oboe" on repeat for hours and hours https://www.youtube.com/wa…

What is the similarity between the Dominicans and the Jesuits? Both were started to fight heresy: the Dominicans the Cathars, the Jesuits the Protestants. Both were started by soldiers. Both have unique spiritual disciplines. What's the difference? Meet any Cathars lately?

Jesuits are usually ordained priests. Dominicans are usually not. The difference is black cassocks vs. white tunics.

Re: Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?

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Post by [deleted] »

robertlagrant wrote: post #86
lxgr wrote: post #30

Old movies have been available on various "free ad-supported streaming television" for a while now, so I'm actually more surprised it took copyright holders that long to realize that Youtube also shows ads and doesn't require people to install some wonky app that might or might not be available for their platform. Of course, region-specific copyright deals are incredibly complex etc. etc., so I could imagine it was j…

It would be really nice if YouTube could give uploaders the ability to schedule ad slots, rather than them appearing randomly. Unless they do this already and stuff I watch just does it badly, of course.

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