Vessel is an alternative video platform: they believe in the business model of early access, and it pays off for them. We chose them because we think that they’re doing a lot of things that YouTube isn’t - namely, innovation in advertising, better connection with their content creators, and overall better service.
I don’t think Vessel will necessarily take over YouTube’s space right yet, but it offers the pretty medium for premium content. What I do think is that people are going to abandon YouTube as the sole video source on the internet, and that that source will be spread out throughout these different sites. Vessel will definitely be at the forefront of those competitors.
Also, small channels don’t really stand much of a chance on YouTube anyhow, if you’re just following the crowd and doing what everyone else is doing. We were the first really consistent group-based Bionicle channel - we didn’t do stop motion animations or MOC reviews, which were pretty much all of the other Bionicle YouTube content that they had available. Instead, we offered something different and, because we were always a group, were able to continue to grow our channel in terms of production and scale up pretty easily.
After us, some other group channels have formed, but they really haven’t been all that successful. It’s the lack of good personalities that really play well off each other, I feel, and the lack of vision/business sense by the leaders. But that’s just me.
Oh yah totally a group of people on the board talking about Lego,transformers, and other nerdy stuff would be dumb! Heh heh… I uh gotta go, leaves and go gets some really old Apple juice My whole life is a sham I can never be as popular as the great TTV… /s (Also I see your reasoning and I get what you mean thanks!)
