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

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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]▶

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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. derektank ◴[05 Feb 25 16:28 UTC] No.42950881[source]▶

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I would argue KanePixels (Kane Parsons) is doing the Indie filmmaker thing very successfully on YouTube. He went from creating a viral hit with his interpretation of The Backrooms, signed a deal with A24, and has continued releasing his own horror short films in the interim. The format isn't the standard 90-120 minutes of most studio movies but his longest videos are nearly an hour long and with each narrative spread across several videos, stitching the whole thing together would look something like a conventional film

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm10735410/

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