Thanks for the heads up. Given the business model seems to be little more than a copycat of extant gorilla kings, I don't see the value proposition such presents. Were they providing some open sourcing, censorship resistance, or opportunity no longer available to aspiring vloggers they might generate more economic potential. If what you describe is accurate - and I have no expectation it is not - they're just shadows of the platforms totally dominating the market now.
That's why @dtube is the best hosting platform and noone can compete with it in term of decentralization. It's not only the best app in steem, but the best decentralized video hosting on the web. It's working mor than 2 years, they accept everybody there, not limited for creators, the content is upvoted by regular steemians, they update always the curation team with regular steemians, they could be even fishies or minnows. Now dtube created its own chain and they have testnet, it will be tradble in the future as well. You can earn there not only from creating videos, but from sharing youtube, vimeo and other video hosting platforms.