Vessel acquired and shut down by Verizon

[AresKrieger]

29 minutes ago, stuntguy3000 said:

But why would Verizon shut down Vessel, as far as I am aware they don't have competing products. 

They are trying to make similar play to AT&T and have a complete vertical chain of media production, so they just wanted something Vessel had such as software or something along those lines

[PlayStation 2]

To be honest this isn't surprising at all. Vessel was floundering. They were losing tonsa cash, so it makes sense that someone'd buy them out.

[trogdor0]

They make it sound so positive, but more vertically-integrated monopolies is the opposite of what the industry needs.

[iamdarkyoshi]

38 minutes ago, JAKEBAB said:

This is awesome news!! Finally going to see the watercooled ps4

Its already on youtube

 

But where is the screenshot in the screenshot?

[Techicolors]

5 minutes ago, trogdor0 said:

They make it sound so positive, but more vertically-integrated monopolies is the opposite of what the industry needs.

probably have to sound positive. Verizon is watching them.. 

[Curufinwe_wins]

Ehh pretty annoyed by this. But oh well.

[Magnetorheological]

19 minutes ago, trogdor0 said:

They make it sound so positive, but more vertically-integrated monopolies is the opposite of what the industry needs.

They're pretty much saying this with a gun to their heads.

[Energycore]

What a world we live in, where big companies can just make someone stop doing what they've set out to do just by throwing money at them.

 

If that's not tyranny, what is it?

[Deletive]

Vessel is my only media platform for most of my daily watches... I'm not pleased. 

[Enderman]

So am I getting a full refund for the whole year? Or just what was left?

Cause it would be sweet to have the full $20 back  

This really sucks for LMG, a ton of their income is from vessel.

[DF0024]

Vessel was a great paying platform without any ads and giving back to creator.

 

I don't want to lose another canadian tech news media compagny.

 

No Youtube Red in Canada. I will have to go through ads for every video I watch from now on if I want to support Linus Media Group 

 

 

[S w a t s o n]

I got on a smile wider than the man in my gif, no more 1 week delay, no more scheduling conflicts. Get shrekt vessel!

[suicidalfranco]

1 minute ago, Swatson said:

I got on a smile wider than the man in my gif, no more 1 week delay, no more scheduling conflicts. Get shrekt vessel!

yeah! great! let's all go back to the inferior worse other platform! so amazing!

/s

[S w a t s o n]

2 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

yeah! great! let's all go back to the inferior worse other platform! so amazing!

/s

>vessel
>better platform than youtube

 

I mean this is all opinions but vessel has such a worse user experience I'm not even sure how you can hold that opinion.

Edited October 27, 2016 by Swatson
derp

[suicidalfranco]

1 minute ago, Swatson said:

>vessel
>better platform than youtube

 

I mean this is all opinions but vessel has such a worse user experience I'm not even sure how you can hold that opinion.

not better, superior 

[Murdoch]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

This really sucks for LMG, a ton of their income is from vessel.

 

I suspect it's not that much when compared to how much they made from the first free year. There doesn't seem to be many people still using vessel.

 

So all in all, it worked out pretty well for LTT, Vessel paid over the odds initially to attract content creators. Then Vessel must have realised it was never going to work, because too few people actually want to pay "cash money" for this sort of content. Fortunately for them, they managed to sell off their platform to Verizon. 

 

 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

16 minutes ago, Energycore said:

What a world we live in, where big companies can just make someone stop doing what they've set out to do just by throwing money at them.

 

If that's not tyranny, what is it?

Capitalism. Tyranny is when you can just make someone stop doing what they've set out to do just by throwing bullets at them.

 

1 minute ago, Swatson said:

>vessel
>worse platform than youtube

 

I mean this is all opinions but vessel has such a worse user experience I'm not even sure how you can hold that opinion.

I haven´t used Vessel much, and probably wouldn't even know it exists if it wasn't for the WAN show. But when I did, it was indeed better. I can't find anything positive to say about Youtube other that it plays videos. Usually. I mean, what else is there to a video website other than smoothly playing the videos you choose to watch?

[Enderman]

1 minute ago, Murdoch said:

 

I suspect it's not that much when compared to how much they made from the first free year. There doesn't seem to be many people still using vessel.

 

So all in all, it worked out pretty well for LTT, Vessel paid over the odds initially to attract content creators. Then Vessel must have realised it was never going to work, because too few people actually want to pay "cash money" for this sort of content. Fortunately for them, they managed to sell off their platform to Verizon. 

There are several thousand people still using vessel, and that makes LMG almost as much money as the hundreds of thousands that watch on youtube.

[S w a t s o n]

4 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

not better, superior 

Spoiler

 

 

Spoiler

i mean sure, semantics aside I still dont see any way vessel matches either of these

[SurvivorNVL]

Fuck Verizon.  Fuck all these corporations.  The hybrid-crony market is an abomination.  

[PhilGoodInc]

I just saw the email and the first thing I was concerned about was LTT! 

 

I also have YouTube Red, I dont get the YouTube ads, but there was no escaping the integrated ads other than vessel which was the main reason I had it. 

[Energycore]

6 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Capitalism. Tyranny is when you can just make someone stop doing what they've set out to do just by throwing bullets at them.

I am fine with this as long as no one can buy me off without my consent.

[Reavantos]

I only subbed to vessel to support LMG and other content creators ....inb4 "i watch their videos, that should be enough" (TL:DR, its not, especially when you use adblock)

 

adsense is not as great for content creators as it use to be.

 

LMG should probably get a patreon going. as long as they manage it better than Tek Syndicate managed theirs.. it should be fine.

 

[suicidalfranco]

3 minutes ago, Swatson said:

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i mean sure, semantics aside I still dont see any way vessel matches either of these

better comment section, better UI, better front page, better suggestions 

[Murdoch]

7 minutes ago, Enderman said:

There are several thousand people still using vessel, and that makes LMG almost as much money as the hundreds of thousands that watch on youtube.

Yeah, that would be my guess too given the volume of likes / comments on Vessel. Views per video is probably somewhere in the low thousands perhaps around the 5k mark (on a good day).

 

Which is not insignificant, I think I just misjudged what you meant by a "ton of their income". If you look over on LTT's twitter, there is a nice reply from Nick, that says they aren't that concerned as their revenue is extremely diversified.