I was thinking about how youtube stands as the most used platform for videos, however the more creative/professional oriented platform Vimeo could still establish itself few years later. Same for Facebook and LinkedIn for instance.
So I was wondering how much new ideas could come out following the same reasoning. Any ideas?

Network effect and not offering enough benefit to overcome that.

@Demolishun very good point

@Jilano It's not just "laziness". When people publish videos, it's because they want others to see them. A better platform with less audience range is the worse platform because it fulfils this number one objective worse. Similarly with social media and auction/sales platforms.

Range is not a nice addon, it's the number one "must have" feature that new contenders are necessarily lacking. Obviously, that's a vicious circle, which is why we have witnessed market concentration after the initial market diversity phase.

@Fast-Nop
Don't forget hate clicks.

@Fast-Nop but I imagine it would be easier to gain more viewers on a platform where there are less videos uploaded. It would probably be easier to get 100 views on a platform that has 1000 active users, than to get 100 views on a platform like YouTube. Considering that one got a very little to none fanbase

@Creep On YT, there are so many people that a hundred viewers are easy to reach, and potentially millions, while the other platform in that example has a hard upper limit of a thousand.

@Demolishun

As a rule it only takes a fraction of users abusing a system to push unpopular policies into place that annihilate the user count.

If theres a well known, or growing stand in, it's a matter of providing the service or platform at the right time to gain these users.

No different than one business hiring a bunch of goons to cause trouble with customers out front of another business.