To maintain upload speeds you may want to select a high-performance host or have uploads go directly to a cloud storage service like Google Drive, and the site would then pull the uploaded videos from there.

The tools here will allow you to create a community site where visitors can register, upload videos, and manage their own channels allowing you to create the same type of site. Developing your own app, making an API, and getting listed on smart TVs as well as attempting to directly compete with Youtube is a massive project and not something you can learn from a book or tutorial. You would need a team and likely investment capital for all of that.

You shouldn’t try to directly compete with Youtube. You should choose a specific niche for your video site so that it has its own community that prefers your site over Youtube.

Sure, you can allow visitors to register and upload videos for free. There are a variety of ways you can monetize the site including with ads using an ad network like Google AdSense.

Members will be able to upload videos in a variety of formats including mp4.

I don’t know of any plugin that would allow you to split the ad revenue with your members. I think you’d have to calculate this manually yourself at the end of each month.

Hey Jerome,

I’m not sure if there is an option to export to Youtube, but the opposite is true. If you upload the videos to Youtube, the theme recommended in this post can automatically import them to your site.

This sounds great. One question. Can you have a site like this automatically export your videos to youtube? The reason for this question is that youtube is the ‘ go to’ video sharing site so people will always go there to find content and may not learn or want to learn to go to a new site.

I want to create a community around community(music) uploaded videos but they shouldn’t feel isolated from the the rest of the (youtube)world.

Thanks
Jerome