Yeah, that’s basically it. If you want to start small, only host your own videos to your own twelve followers it’s pretty easy. If you manage to make a fan base and create some income you might be able to grow the servers as the viewers come. But to start a competitor from scratch and have it handle huge amounts of users and videos it would have to come from an established player with the necessary power. Those three are the really big fish and they have the money as well.

Apple and Netflix might be able to create something as well, but they don’t have the infrastructure, so they would have to pay more. At least Netflix, I’m not sure about Apple.