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

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641 points shortformblog | 3 comments | 05 Feb 25 14:47 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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illwrks ◴[05 Feb 25 15:39 UTC] No.42950028[source]▶
Movie rights will be a big factor also. Events like TIFF, Cannes etc, while being a platform to show films is also where deals are done, distribution rights are signed always for different territories etc. YouTube is essentially international which may invalidate some pre-existing licence and distribution agreements.
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1. crashingintoyou ◴[05 Feb 25 16:16 UTC] No.42950664[source]▶
Have you never gotten an error about something being unavailable in your region on Youtube?
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2. illwrks ◴[05 Feb 25 19:16 UTC] No.42953627[source]▶
Not that I'm aware of, but perhaps the things I've watched have been more vanilla and not required that by the content owner.
3. xsmasher ◴[06 Feb 25 01:21 UTC] No.42957784[source]▶
An American here: no, never.