Agreed @heymattsokol. I use Amazon AWS to dish out all my commercial videos to my paying clients. While I am not a big client of theirs by ANY stretch, I do have quite a few clients watching quite a few of my videos each month. My highest fee to Amazon for one month was $0.23!!! So for DTube to be taking 25%, that is a bit heavy-handed, even in these hard development months. There are other ways to raise money.
As for YouTube, @exyle I am a YT partner and have been one for many years. If I was to put up a video with 3rd party content in it YouTube would instantly shut off any revenue to my other 400 videos. I feel like I am walking on egg shells always with YT. I would love for dTube to become more reliable and incorporate some key features offered by YT. When dTube was first introduced I was VERY new to Steemit. I tried dTube for a few days, but abandoned it because of the errors and poor performance. I will go back and revisit.
Thanks for your insight. I always enjoy reading.
Cheers,
Bucky
Ya it's a real big fee in my mind. Agree completely with you. Too bad about the YouTube stuff, it's getting worse and worse these days.