Did Caffeine kill URL?

Phillyrider807

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maybe I’m just too casual? I want to watch TSU Surf and Lux and can’t find it without paying 8 bucks a month to yet another streaming service.

seems kinda backwards. If they want more and more views, they were probably getting that on YouTube


They stopped releasing videos on youtube because the money just wasn't there anymore. Youtube doesn't pay ANYWHERE near as much as they used to and on top of that they are aggressively toning down ads on "violent" material which battle rap falls under.

Lack of youtube drops from a fan perspective hurts. But from a business side they kinda had no choice. People want bigger and bigger battles that requires more and more money yet they aren't recouping that dropping the material on youtube.

Now with that said i do feel like URL not dropping ANY battles on Youtube is still crazy. No reason stuff like the crucibles/survivor series matchups can't drop on youtube.

Also the top tiers should start putting it in their contract that they battles drop on youtube after a certain amount of months from dropping on the app.
 

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I can't find a your honor battle on there :unimpressed: his scheme went viral and idiots didn't release it.
yeah I dont understand why they havent dropped things on youtube especially battles that are a yr plus
but maybe they have a legit business reason for it
 

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Nah, once the app came they basically transitioned away from dropping timely content on youtube.
Still a waste though, over a million subscribers basically going to waste.

They lost me after they left YouTube. Battle rap seems super irrelevant right now because without out YouTube they are getting no exposure. There is no hype around any of the battles and it seems like they took some steps backwards going behind a paywall. It’s not popular enough outside it’s hardcore base to just leave YouTube all together.
 

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They lost me after they left YouTube. Battle rap seems super irrelevant right now because without out YouTube they are getting no exposure. There is no hype around any of the battles and it seems like they took some steps backwards going behind a paywall. It’s not popular enough outside it’s hardcore base to just leave YouTube all together.
Battle rap has gotten MORE exposure being one of the only sports that kept moving when the pandemic first broke. They were only competing with the UFC, caffiene has ads for battles all over socials, cards were being talked about on JBP like every other week

So nah.
 

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The goal of a business is to make more money. They didn't take any steps backwards by leaving YT. All they lost are casual fans that don't buy PPVs or subscriptions. Caffeine and the URLTV app bring more money to URL than YT. That's not a negative

With that being said, they should still upload a couple battles from young gunners to bring them more exposure for the battlers' sake. Promoting the battlers leads to more possible names that might headline a card
 

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I downloaded the url app and tried to get a subscription, but couldnt get it to work so I gave up.

I cant even remember how long ago that was.
 

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I downloaded the url app and tried to get a subscription, but couldnt get it to work so I gave up.

I cant even remember how long ago that was.
Same, I downloaded it and tried to see what I had to do to start watching battles and every time I clicked a video it just played the same ad/promotional video over and over. I deleted that jawn and aint been back since, this was like a year ago
 
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