&gt;I had a young (pre-teen) boy who filed copyright claims on several of my tutorials, and they where taken down instantly and took months to resolve via email.<p>I have a feeling no (big) video hosting site will be immune to this. This is a legal problem not a technology problem.<p>&gt;Beyond that, YouTube is taking a ~50% cut of your ad revenue AND any donation revenue on the site which seems pretty extreme.<p>Yeah, I&#x27;m not sure what a &#x27;fair&#x27; split is, but hosting and serving video is heavier than apps, and app-store collect 30% of revenue. With more competition that ratio may change in favor of content creators.<p>&gt;They also don&#x27;t do good when it comes to new content discovery, as the YT search promotes mostly popular content<p>Again, I think this is less YouTube and more the nature of the beast. You&#x27;re in a typical long-tail market - where you compete with millions of other creators, with low barriers to entry. No search or discovery is going to get it right.