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

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641 points shortformblog | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 14:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.243s | source
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timmg ◴[05 Feb 25 15:22 UTC] No.42949719[source]▶
I assume they get "monetization" from Youtube and they don't need to worry about hosting or discovery. Probably better than doing nothing with these films.
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browningstreet ◴[05 Feb 25 15:27 UTC] No.42949826[source]▶
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.

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1. korse ◴[05 Feb 25 15:57 UTC] No.42950363[source]▶
I think you missed a decade or two. This was already a thing and the mainstream didn't exactly have the appetite for it. Check out 'web series' on Wikipedia.

I don't know what you're into but "The Guild" is pretty excellent example of the form.