Premium Live Streaming (PPV) Services

[Doddilus]

Having now paid for a number of streamed live events through services like Kiswe, Moment, and NFHS, I have yet to have a good experience with any of them. So my question is why hasn't a company that has already nailed the video streaming aspect (YouTube, Twitch, etc.) offer a paid live streaming service? It would seem like YouTube already has all the pieces with members only videos. I would also think payment to the creator would be much more straightforward than ad revenue: person pays -> YouTube % cut -> creator paid. Is there some legal can of worms I'm missing? 

[Doddilus]

It is definitely niche. Niche enough to never be picked up by traditional broadcasters for YouTubeTV. My example for today would be a high school sports stream from the NFHS site. You might only get a couple hundred people watching tops. ESPN would never pick that up.

 

But in the pay per view world the big fish is Pro Wrestling. WWE or AEW gets hundreds of thousands of buys for their PPV events. So there is a range.

 

And yeah live concerts would be another great example. Who currently does live streams of concerts?

 

Another specific example I have experience with would be the YouTube channel Good Mythical Morning with Rhett and Link. They do Good Mythical Evening once a year which is live and mature rated. It wouldn't be allowed on just free live streaming.

 

So niche certainly. But that's kind of the entirety of YouTube. Niche