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I think one method here is to incorporate your own site into the content as much as possible. For example, if you are a creator, get people to sign up to a newsletter to get the source files. Get people onto your platform/forum/whatever as well as watching through YouTube. Easier said than done, but better than not doing anything.

From there, you also ensure that you have a backup of all your videos. I've talked to people that only had their stuff on YouTube/Facebook/whatever. It is super risky. If you have a backup, and YouTube bans you, you can rehost elsewhere, it won't be as big, but you might still have a business afterwards.

>>rlayto+(OP)
Also something that needs to be noted, you don't need the same original numbers of people in your kingdom to make equivalent money.

When you're making commerce in someone's fief, they will demand tribute as well. In the confines of your own kingdom, all the ad dollars are yours.

Which also means you don't need to chase the same amounts of people to make similar coin, especially if the deals you make with advertisers are between you and the advertiser (not you, the advertiser, and the king of some other fief).

>>azemet+w5
Exactly. You can be huge on Youtube or tiktok and if you convert some of that to direct engagement you are much better able to survive a changing landscape.

>>rlayto+(OP)
Yeah, every YT creator that is serious about their job should have their own website with a copy of the videos, and I find it really curious that this doesn't seem to be much of a thing? At best I'm seeing merchandise webshops. But you'd think these people would be multi-channel and have a website, youtube, all the social medias, etc, and the bigger ones a company to manage them all.

But I suspect that as they get bigger, they enter in exclusivity / no-compete contracts with Youtube, and if they detect the same video hosted elsewhere, they get taken down or something.

>>Cthulh+sF
This sounds like an opportunity for a product. Apart from eyeballs and familiarity, Youtube does a lot of handholding so that non-technical people van run their own channels. I don't think 90% of youtubers would have any idea how to spin up a website. But I'm sure they'd be happy to pay someone to do it for them (as long as the price was a small fractuon of their ad revenue).