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Anime series that are popular get official Youtube uploads, while...
...anime series that are not popular get pulled off Youtube. At least, the unofficial uploads get pulled while there are no official ones to replace them.
Shouldn't it be the other way around? For example, if all the popular chatter is about Baccano being awesome and everyone is recommending it to everyone else, then people are going to want to buy Baccano DVDs anyway, so why upload them to Youtube? but if people haven't even heard of Kiddy Grade, shouldn't Funimation instead throw that up on Youtube, to have a higher chance of gaining new fans and actually getting more sales?
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Kiddy Grade is on Netflix, at least.
youtube mods are so ridiculously overworked that they just pull whatever gets flagged, which is why people like nyanners et al can get their videos pulled for copyright violation even though they're making original content. This plus youtube's flourishing report-troll population means bad things for videos of semi-obscure-yet-popular-to-be-recognizable anime.
also another facet, I attended an interview panel of Stephanie Sheh, who - aside from dubbing - is also a producer and scriptwriter for dubs, when she was asked a question along similar lines, of why anime distributors don't embrace online streaming and digital distribution more wholeheartedly. The deal with uploading stuff to youtube is that the Japanese production companies:
A) will only license works by way of ridiculously one-sided and draconian licensing terms
The end result is that Sunrise and the like will refuse to let companies like Funimation upload anything online unless its already wildly popular and has made back its investment on some level, which means that more obscure stuff will not be upped because the Japanese companies are afraid that the small fanbase will just watch online rather than buying the DVDs. Because of point A, the Production companies can basically dictate terms like this all day and the western distributors have zero negotiating power whatsoever.
^ Hmm. Your account is consistent with Lisle Wilkinson's telling me that Japanese media companies, on the whole, still don't know what to make of the internet as a media distribution tool.