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three years ago you all said it wouldn't work up until now

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you've been right but that all changes today flow plane is

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now in beta meaning that we're opening up our doors to creators everywhere who

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are looking for new ways to connect with their biggest fans want to become less

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reliant on a short list of giant tech companies and who want to make their

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income a lot more predictable so i feel like i should start with what floatplane

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is not it is not a youtube competitor not now

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not ever it is not a twitch competitor not now not ever

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so then what are we right now we're a place for creators to upload their

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videos in high quality while earning money from their supporters directly

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there are no ads there's no algorithm we didn't make any of those

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did we have time to build an algorithm no there's still a lot of work for us to do

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we're not we're not interested in that and because we spent the vast majority

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of our time building a solid content delivery system that isn't reliant on

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any of the big cloud providers there's no way for them to prevent a creator's

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content from being served to those followers that are supporting them and

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because we are creators or at least you used to be uh we've already battled

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tested the platform with the linus tech tips channel acting as our own biggest

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customer yeah our users thank you guys have already streamed

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over a petabyte of data including both high quality vods and live streams like

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that time we streamed a live event where people made fun of me for an hour and a half to the tune of 26 terabytes of

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bandwidth yeah so if you're a creator here's some good

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reasons to consider getting on flow plane one

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join floatplane if you want a more diverse online video ecosystem while i

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personally feel that the youtube platform has changed my life for the

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better between the monetization their poor handling of the various

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controversies the recent peace corps controversy actually i wrote this a

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while ago but that's okay because they've got the new kappa one since then

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honestly it feels kind of like youtube has made it their mission to act as a

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proxy pr department for us here at

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floatplane which is great because we can't afford a pr department yeah they

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always seem to be looking for an opportunity to demonstrate why we

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shouldn't entrust our entire livelihoods to one corporation's decision-making

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process so that's a big part of it for us at least we're not youtube we're not

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facebook we're not amazon we're not microsoft we're not apple either we're

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none of those things we have no investment from 10 cent or business

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interest to protect in china this was again written a little while ago but

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still relevant and in fact we have no external

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investment whatsoever so floatplane is

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by creators for creators yes we know it's a cliche at this point

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but the reason that we started building this thing was that we needed an

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alternative to vessel which was a platform that offered us a revenue

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stream that we had come to rely on but that ended up being acquired by verizon

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and promptly shut down which i guess brings me nicely into reason number two

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we're not going anywhere we're built on a model of slow and steady growth rather

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than chasing large rounds of venture capital racing to acquire millions of

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users then selling to the highest bidder before anyone realizes that the

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platform's just leaking money and never worked in the first place floodplain

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took so long because it's built on real tech whenever we hit a roadblock we

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developed a solution to it rather than paying for a quick fix from a canned

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solution that we don't really know anything about and that we know will get too expensive to properly scale burying

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us under our own weight finally reason number three floatplane gives you

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control over your audience you can correspond with your audience directly

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in an environment that's a lot less toxic and should you ever decide that

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you no longer require our services we will provide you with a list of your

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subscribers allowing you to take your audience with you wherever you happen to

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be going now let's talk about the reasons you should not join floatplane

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number one you hate money i guess it's very funny yeah seriously though you

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shouldn't join floatplane if your goal is to expand your reach as a content

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creator we are not a discoverability platform remember no algorithm and our

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traffic is both relatively low and very

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intent based nobody is going to floatplane.com to

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look for random stuff to watch and that is the whole point so most of the traffic

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to the entire site is from creators who are on the platform directing their

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users straight to their pages we promise

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to not only keep free of banner ads and other clutter but also free of promotion

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for other creators it's your page yeah

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and you also shouldn't join if you're perfectly happy with the tools that

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youtube already provides through their community posts and member features

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youtube has built in many of the features that we had intended to use to

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differentiate which is a little frustrating but whatever and not

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everyone worries about having all of their eggs in one basket maybe that's

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fine for you but if you want this content creator gig to evolve into a

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stable lifelong career and you want to make the most of the fan base you've

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worked so hard to build then consider creating on floatplane it's

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become an invaluable resource and revenue stream for us here at linus tech

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tips with no observable impact on our youtube growth by the way a lot of

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people ask me about that and we're not alone just ask our early access creators

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like tech deals ufd tech eposvox science

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studio and the one and only lyle from bitwit if you want to learn more head to

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floaplane.com and click this button where you can apply to join the platform

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we're going to have that link below as well i'm actually super excited that

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this is finally happening because the number of tweets i remember we talked

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early on about having like a wall of hate yes like for people that are like

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this is stupid this is gonna fail um hey they might still be right but the

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step that we're taking today gets us a little bit closer to

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not being that problem honestly if this goes well and you guys let the creators

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that you love know about this option and even a small fraction of them reach out

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to us we think that it's got a very bright future absolutely so thanks guys

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thank you bye