CreaTV

CreaTV is a video sharing website launched by Daniel Brown in 2015 using a grant from Stainton Labs, and acquired by ArgosyMTM Group in 2016. It is marketed as an alternative to YouTube, and is currently the second-most-popular video site after YouTube.

History
Video sharing website YouTube started to decrease in popularity during the mid-2010s due to poor leadership, the copyright system, and the demonetization of content deemed offensive and inappropriate. Many content creators left YouTube in favour of alternative websites like Newgrounds, Dailymotion, or Vimeo.

In 2015, a young college student from North Carolina, Daniel Brown, created CreaTV, a website intended to “do to YouTube what Facebook did to MySpace, or Google did to AltaVista, or Reddit did to Digg”, using a grant from Stainton Labs. The website quickly became popular, especially among the growing lolcore subculture. The parent company of Stainton Labs, ArgosyMTM Group, acquired CreaTV in 2016, though Daniel Brown remains in charge.

CreaTV has became popular in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan as an alternative to NicoVideo.

CreaTV Manifesto
CreaTV’s corporate philosophy is based on the “CreaTV Manifesto”. The latest version is below:
 * 1) Ad goes after the video. Not before, not during, after. And notice how we said “ad goes”, not “ads go”. We won’t give you 2 or 3 ads in a row. We would eliminate ads entirely, but creators need the revenue.
 * 2) All ad revenue goes to creators. We don’t get any of it. The money to run CreaTV comes from the rest of the Argosy corporation.
 * 3) DMCA abuse is not tolerated. DMCA should only be used if full movies or episodes are circulating, and for nothing else. Uploads of songs are fair use, especially if the song has no widely-available official release.
 * 4) We aren’t PornHub. You aren’t allowed to upload hardcore porn. (There are already enough sites for that.) However, we are okay with swearing, unlike certain other video sites.
 * 5) We aren’t YouTube Kids, either. You can have both COPPA-compliance, and standard features expected from a video site, such as a comment section and working playlists.
 * 6) We aren’t like these other “alternative tech” websites. Far-right and far-left views should stay on 4chan. However, fascist and communist symbolism is allowed for historical purposes only.
 * 7) User privacy is respected. All data goes to /dev/null and nowhere else. We pledge to never sell your data.
 * 8) Star ratings make sense. Our other site, the short-form YTMND, invented the star-rating system for videos. There are more opinions than just “like” and “dislike”.

Popular channels

 * SiIvaGunner, a mirror of the YouTube shitposting channel of the same name, operated by the same crew. The content is identical to that on the YouTube channel. Despite being a simple mirror of a YouTube channel, it is one of the most-subscribed channels on CreaTV.