What Is Odysee The YouTube Alternative You Need!

Name: What Is Odysee The YouTube Alternative You Need!
Uploaded: 2025-10-09T17:24:30+00:00
Duration: 21 min 15 s
Channel: Trey Davis

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Ever heard of Odysee? It’s one of the fastest-growing YouTube alternatives that actually pays you in crypto for your videos. In this video, I break down what Odysee is, how it works, and why more creators are switching to this decentralized platform. If you’re tired of algorithm changes and demonetization, Odysee might be your new home.

🎬 Have you tried Odysee yet? Do you think decentralized platforms like this are the future of content creation? Let’s talk in the comments below!

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00:00What's up everybody?

00:01My name is Trey and welcome to another video.

00:04Now have you ever uploaded a video to YouTube and you were worried that it was going to

00:08get taken down or demonetized or you were just worried that YouTube was not going to

00:12show it to its vast network of watchers for whatever reason?

00:18Well I found a YouTube alternative that I'm actually really excited about and I think

00:25that you should be too because Odyssey is what happens when blockchain meets video content

00:32creation.

00:33It's actually low-key genius when you think about it and by the end of this video you will

00:38know if Odyssey is actually worth your time because some other YouTube alternative platforms

00:43definitely are not but I think my answer to Odyssey is going to be something that actually

00:48really surprises you.

00:50Before we get into this video however make sure you hit the subscribe button and notification

00:52bell to get notified every time I post a video and leave a comment in the comment section

00:55down below.

00:56Have you ever heard of Odyssey before or is this the first time that you're actually

01:00hearing about it?

01:01Because it's kind of crazy that so many people haven't heard of Odyssey and they just watch

01:05everything on YouTube.

01:07But let's go ahead and jump into it.

01:09So what is Odyssey?

01:11Well Odyssey was built on the Libra network and it was launched in 2020 which is relatively

01:19recently.

01:20Why would I want to be on a platform that's so new?

01:23Well, the reason why it's so new is it's built on the blockchain.

01:26If you want to think about it, Odyssey is YouTube meets crypto and it's decentralized in the fact

01:33that no one actually controls it.

01:35They can't tell you what to post, what not to post.

01:37They can't take down your videos or demonetize you.

01:40And the coolest thing and probably the most bullish factor on all of this is for all the

01:47views in the monetary value that you receive from Odyssey, you actually can receive that

01:52in cryptocurrency.

01:53Which means not only are you diversifying your income when it comes to posting on different

01:59platforms, YouTube, Odyssey.

02:01Odyssey.

02:02There's a handful of other ones.

02:03But you're also getting paid in cryptocurrency, which I don't know if you've looked at the

02:07market right now, but it's absolutely pumping.

02:10So you get to take that upside along for a ride and make some decent money.

02:16Not only that, Odyssey's entire mission is basically returning power to the creators,

02:22not the corporations.

02:23They want to make sure that creators are actually benefiting from making content on their platform.

02:28Not only in monetary terms by getting paid in crypto, but also by showing their videos

02:33to everybody on the platform as they don't have a way to really shadow ban you.

02:36When you post, as long as people are on the platform and searching those specific keywords,

02:41your video is going to pop up no matter how many subscribers you have or how many views

02:45you've accumulated in the past 30 days, they do a really good job of posting every video

02:50in front of you and saying, hey, based on the consumer, what do you want to see?

02:54And you can pick and choose which videos might look best for you.

02:58Now, YouTube and Odyssey more or less function very similarly as they're both video content

03:04platforms in which you can watch a plethora of different content from people all around

03:08the world.

03:09But one way in which they differ that's really, really interesting is the fact that Odyssey runs

03:15on a decentralized file system when it comes to instead of uploading your videos to one

03:22specific server that, let's say, YouTube owns, for instance, when you upload your videos to Odyssey,

03:27they actually are hosted across and distributed through multiple networks of computers.

03:33This basically allows you to keep digital ownership of every proof of video that you are uploading

03:40on the actual blockchain ledger itself.

03:43Once you upload a video to the network, it is on there permanently.

03:47No one can take it off.

03:48They can't scrub it and say that you never uploaded a video.

03:51Once you actually upload it because it is on the blockchain, you are permanently in trends

03:56and your video is on Odyssey and people will be able to view it.

04:00Basically, this structure makes Odyssey immune to centralized censorship.

04:05There's not one specific person or entity that can go in and say, hey, people who are making content

04:10about this specific topic, we no longer want to promote their videos or show their videos

04:15to anybody else.

04:16So we are just going to simply delete them or ban them from being able to be shown.

04:20And since it's decentralized, no one has that type of power to be able to say who can

04:24and cannot post on their platform.

04:26Not only that, but the Odyssey token that is given as a reward when people watch, when they donate,

04:32and when you do other tasks actually in your Odyssey account like posting videos, posting lives,

04:37and being consistent about your upload schedule.

04:40But you are also able to use those tokens to promote your own videos.

04:44So essentially what they did was they created an entire crypto content creating platform

04:50in which it is self-sustaining because every time you're posting videos, you're watching videos,

04:55you're interacting with other people's content, you are getting paid in crypto that you can then use

05:00to promote your own videos.

05:02If I'm being completely honest with you, it's kind of like an endless stream of crypto

05:08because everything's made out of thin air, which I think is absolutely beautiful.

05:13Now, obviously, I just went over that there is a major difference in terms of Odyssey being on a blockchain

05:19and YouTube being like a centralized content creation platform or video creation platform.

05:24So one of the main ways that they are extremely different and one that you're really going to have to take a look at

05:30is the ways in which creators actually make money on both platforms.

05:33So when it comes to Odyssey, like I said, you get paid in cryptocurrency by watching, by commenting,

05:39by engaging in other people's content, and also by posting your own content and then people engage in that,

05:44which is really nice because you can catch the upside, which is crypto.

05:48And then you have to convert that cryptocurrency that Odyssey gives you into USD on a crypto exchange

05:54to actually convert that into dollars if you do want to take it out and actually move it to your bank account

05:59or anything like that.

06:00Now, on Odyssey itself, there are no ads.

06:03So income is completely community driven and token based, which is good and bad.

06:09So if you are an extremely large creator only on one specific platform,

06:14so maybe you're only on TikTok or you're only on YouTube or you're only on Instagram,

06:18and you come over to Odyssey and you post a couple videos,

06:22it will make it a little bit humbling knowing that you're essentially starting from scratch

06:26because this isn't a platform in which companies are paying ads and paying for marketing

06:32that can initially get put on and kind of pump a video.

06:35They want to make sure that your content is actually good and people are actually watching your content.

06:40And because of that, the community is really driving which creators grow and which creators don't.

06:45When on other platforms, kind of like YouTube, it's kind of a pay to play.

06:48If you spend more money on ads, if you spend more money on marketing,

06:52you're definitely going to get seen by more people when Odyssey really doesn't give you that effect.

06:56Sure, you can still pay for ads given the crypto that you get from engaging in other people's content,

07:01but for the most part, it's completely community driven.

07:03So if the community thinks your content is good, they are definitely going to watch your content.

07:07Now, let's actually jump into Odyssey and I can kind of show you what the platform itself looks like.

07:13So now that you're actually in Odyssey, you'll see that it's structured very similarly to YouTube

07:18in terms of how the videos are set up, what they look like, thumbnails, things of that nature.

07:23So it's going to look very similar to YouTube.

07:26You can look on the side, see different discovers, you can kind of see trending,

07:30you can see who just posted on the platform and things of that nature.

07:34So if you are used to being on YouTube in really any capacity, if you're posting videos

07:39or you're just somebody that goes to YouTube to watch a lot of content, it's going to feel very similar to YouTube.

07:45Not only that, but actually getting started on Odyssey once you actually make an account is really easy

07:50because all you have to do is go up to the upload portion and you simply drag and drop

07:54or you can browse your files on your computer to find the video that you want to upload.

07:58And it's really as simple as that. When I say that YouTube and Odyssey are very similar,

08:03they're also very user friendly. They want to make it as easy as possible to get you on the platform

08:07and get you posting because, like I said, it's a self-sustaining crypto ecosystem.

08:12So the easier it is to post and get views and get likes and get subscribers and get engagement on your post,

08:18the better it is for Odyssey to make money and be able to provide their content creators with more help, more support,

08:25and things of that nature. And I know what you're thinking.

08:28Trey, I have all this content across YouTube and Odyssey sounds really cool.

08:32Getting paid in crypto seems like there's a lot of upside, but I'm not trying to re-upload all of my content to Odyssey.

08:39Well, the cool thing is in Odyssey, you can actually sync with a YouTube channel.

08:43So if you already currently have a YouTube channel, you can sync it with your current YouTube channel

08:47to bring all your videos over to Odyssey, which I think is absolutely amazing.

08:51When I initially got started with Odyssey, that was my first real complaint that I had with the platform

08:57was that I had so much content on YouTube already and I didn't want to go back through 40 or 50 videos

09:02and have to re-upload all of the information to Odyssey.

09:05But as soon as you hit sync YouTube channel, it's going to bring all those videos over for you

09:09so you really don't have to worry about that.

09:11One cool thing too on the platform is viewers can actually tip or follow you directly from your video.

09:16So if people are watching your videos, they can send a tip right while they're watching it to let you know

09:20that they really enjoy your content, which I think is also really cool.

09:23There's also less algorithm pressure when it comes to...

09:26You're not necessarily chasing pumps as they're...

09:28I think they're a little bit longer lifespan when it comes to videos on Odyssey

09:32as there are less people on the platform itself.

09:34So as long as you're on the platform actually making content,

09:37I feel like there's a smaller pool of people to actually put that content out to.

09:41But because of that, it makes it a lot easier for you to get views.

09:44You're not competing with tens of thousands of content creators who are making content day in and day out

09:50and they have huge media companies helping them make content.

09:53It seems like Odyssey is more for people who are kind of just really excited to get paid in crypto

09:57and who want to diversify their income and kind of move off other mainstream platforms like YouTube.

10:02But now let's go into some of the pros and the cons when it comes to Odyssey

10:07because there are both and I want to make sure that you know really what you're getting yourself in.

10:10Now when it comes to the pros on the platform, there is a freedom of speech.

10:13So there's very few restrictions on what kind of topics you can actually put

10:17whether it be political, whether it be financial, whether it be patriotic.

10:23They really do a good job of having very little to no censorship on their platform.

10:29They want to make sure it's an open forum when it comes to freedom of speech that you're able to post whatever content you want.

10:34Also, no demonetization on the actual channel.

10:37So no one or no group are going to tell you you can't post about the content and you no longer can make money from your videos

10:44just because today we feel like this type of information should not be on our network because it is decentralized, which I think is really cool.

10:51Next, you're going to get paid in crypto income.

10:53There's going to be a lot of upside.

10:54There's also going to be a lot of volatility.

10:56But if you're somebody who just simply wants to diversify your income, they want to move over and try something new.

11:00I think getting paid in crypto and kind of having exposure to the crypto industry without actually risking any of your own money is definitely a plus

11:09and definitely something that you should keep in mind.

11:11Odyssey is very community driven in the fact that it is a much smaller platform than, say, YouTube.

11:18But because of that, it seems like viewers of Odyssey really tend to build a strong community and really support creators.

11:27They comment on each other's posts.

11:29They like each other's.

11:30They give tips to each other because you're getting paid in crypto to one another.

11:33And not only that, but it is an open source and it's transparent when it comes.

11:37There's no hidden algorithms.

11:39There's no shadow banding.

11:40There's no one out there telling you your video is not going to get views simply because we don't like the title of your videos.

11:46Odyssey says if that's the title of your video, that's fine.

11:50We will let your community decide whether they like the title of it.

11:53You can do with that information what you please.

11:56And probably the most important part is the fact that you can sync with YouTube.

12:00Because I know a lot of you are coming over from YouTube and you're looking at this video and saying,

12:04Hey, what are just some alternatives in which I can post my income in to diversify my income, get more views, or whatever the case may be.

12:10And for a lot of you, you already have content on this platform.

12:13And you don't want to have to go to a new platform and re-upload every single piece of content that you already have.

12:19Thankfully, when you sync it, it brings all that information over for you and it really cuts down the workload for you getting started on a brand new platform.

12:27Now, let's get into some of the cons of Odyssey.

12:31And probably the first one that you can kind of imagine is the fact that your reach will not be as large in the fact that Odyssey is a lot smaller than YouTube.

12:39So, you could potentially get far, far more views on YouTube just because they have more people consistently on the platform.

12:47So, having a smaller audience or a smaller social media site to post on and get views is definitely a con.

12:53Especially if you're someone that's used to getting tens of thousands of likes and views on their videos.

12:59For Odyssey, you might get a lot less.

13:01But, is that really a con, I guess?

13:04There are fewer monetization tools on Odyssey in the fact there's no memberships, there's no ad revenue, there's no sponsorships, or at least there aren't any yet.

13:13It seems like they have updates coming out all the time in which they really want to push these things, but it makes it hard for them to do so because they're so decentralized.

13:21And they really want the power to be in the content creator, not necessarily an entity body saying that, hey, now we have ads.

13:26So, how exactly are we going to distribute those ads across everybody that makes content for our platform?

13:31Another con is some people would argue that getting paid in crypto is not necessarily how they would want to get paid for posting content.

13:38And I can agree with that because getting paid in crypto means that your price of your crypto is extremely volatile.

13:46Sometimes it'll be up to 3x, other times you'll lose 40-50% of the overall value overnight for no apparent reason it seems.

13:54So there definitely is a lot of volatility when it comes to how much income you'll be receiving from your videos based on the price of that crypto.

14:01Now, yes, the platforms look very similar in terms of Odyssey and YouTube.

14:06However, I do feel that Odyssey is a little bit more clunky in terms of just how the UI works and getting from place to place.

14:13It seems like it's a little bit more laggy, I think, which is understandable as it's kind of built on like a blockchain technology.

14:20Which, yes, is more secure, but sometimes it takes a little bit longer for things to load.

14:24It takes a little bit longer for content to pop up.

14:28It's just, it's a little bit slower.

14:30So if you're somebody that says, hey, as soon as I click on something, it has to be uploaded and ready to go.

14:35This may cause you a lot of stress.

14:37I'm not going to lie to you.

14:39And I would say probably the biggest con to this platform, I would say for most people,

14:43it seems like Odyssey, because it's such a freedom of speech place to where you can post,

14:48it seems like a lot of people kind of come over to Odyssey from YouTube

14:52and post all the content that wasn't able to get monetized on YouTube onto Odyssey.

14:57Which means you can find some crazy content on Odyssey.

15:03I'm not telling you, you should go look for it.

15:05But there are some stuff on Odyssey that make me question the other content that's going to be put on this platform.

15:11So I know sometimes when you get on there and you see just a crazily worded title for a video,

15:18it could definitely turn off new users just because they're like,

15:21if this was all the content that comes on this platform, I want nothing to do with this.

15:25When really, it's just freedom of speech.

15:27People can post whatever they want.

15:28So try not to get turned off by some questionable content at that.

15:33But now that we talked about the pros and cons of Odyssey,

15:36let's talk about the growth and the future potential that Odyssey actually has.

15:42Now, Odyssey is steadily growing.

15:45Yes, it is much smaller than YouTube.

15:47And let's be honest, it'll probably never be the absolute video giant that YouTube is.

15:53But it still has millions of monthly users and it's growing every single day.

15:58Not only are more and more people looking to kind of diversify off of YouTube and go into some different video platforms,

16:05but I think more and more people actually drive over to this platform once crypto becomes more and more mainstream.

16:11Initially, why I went to the platform was the fact that I heard that crypto was going crazy.

16:16I heard all my friends talking about it.

16:18I heard people were becoming millionaires overnight.

16:20But the last thing that I wanted to do was invest my life savings in some coin because it had the picture of a dog on it.

16:29And I was somehow supposed to get rich spending all my money on this crypto of a dog.

16:38So for me, it just seemed really risky.

16:40So when they told that the monetization style for Odyssey was the fact that you can upload videos and then get paid in that crypto without any risk of your own.

16:50I was really excited in that.

16:51And I think a lot of people are going to continue to kind of nudge over to Odyssey as a crypto experience that we're seeing as a whole continues to ramp up.

17:00And not only that, but I think the future is very bright for Odyssey.

17:04I am a huge fan in not necessarily investing all my time in the number one largest thing, but maybe the second largest that is growing in a completely different niche.

17:17So, yes, video platforms are not new as there are a lot of companies that have video platforms.

17:22Obviously, YouTube is the largest.

17:24But a platform like Odyssey that has millions of monthly users, more and more users are coming over to it every single day.

17:32You're getting paid in crypto, but you're also building on what is supposed to be the future of the Internet, which is Web3.

17:41They are getting paid in crypto.

17:43They're trying to integrate some NFT stuff into it.

17:46And there's possibility of future ad sharing and some potential revenue sharing that will all be done in crypto and potentially airdrops.

17:54So getting on the forefront of not only crypto, Web3, NFT, but also the platform that's kind of running that and taking YouTube's framework and saying, hey, what do we like about YouTube, which is this conglomerate, this absolute giant when it comes to a video platform?

18:10And how do we change it slightly to find a smaller niche that has a ton of not only upside, but has a ton of possibility to do something really creative in the space that it's in?

18:23So with that being said, those are the pros and the cons, in my opinion, of Odyssey.

18:27So I guess it just boils down.

18:29Should you use Odyssey?

18:31And I think without a question, 1000%, you should be on Odyssey.

18:37Odyssey makes it extremely easy to move all of your content from YouTube onto its platform where it's just a click of a button.

18:44You're not having to reload any of your content or anything like that.

18:47And this is good for people of all sizes on YouTube.

18:51If you're somebody with an enormous channel, maybe you're trying to branch out and find another audience for your channel.

18:57If you're somebody who's really small, well, maybe you can post on Odyssey.

19:01You can get far more views because you're a small channel.

19:04And it's especially great for people who are in the niches of crypto, tech, politics, because you never have to worry about your content getting demonetized or taken down just because the platform decides that today it's not feeling what you're posting.

19:19I truly, truly believe that early adopters of Odyssey are absolutely going to blow up.

19:24It might take a little bit as there's still a lot of advancements when it comes to Web3 and the blockchain technology.

19:30But Odyssey is definitely a front runner when it comes to a video platform giving you a very similar experience to one that we all have come to love, which is YouTube.

19:40So if you're somebody that wants a little bit more freedom or maybe you're somebody who's trying to tap into a very different audience than the one that you're used to, I would say highly recommend.

19:51So get on Odyssey, post some content, just see how you like the platform.

19:55Maybe it's just something that you do alongside your content creation on every other platform that you're on.

20:01But I definitely think it is a slept on platform because some of the pros that I actually talked about.

20:06And they'll actually be a pinned comment in the comment section down below for a link for you to go ahead and sign up for Odyssey if that's something that you're interested in doing.

20:13Because I want to make this as simple as possible, get you on this platform, get you diversified and get you some money rolling in because that crypto money, different.

20:21We all know somebody who's still living at home with a Lambo in the driveway and it's all because of crypto, baby.

20:26So just like that, I really hope you enjoyed the video and I really hope you're open to trying out a different video platform, which is Odyssey, because I think it's really cool and I think you really enjoy it.

20:35But if you did like this video, make sure you hit the subscribe button and notification bell to get notified every time I post a video and leave a comment in the comment section down below.

20:42How do you feel about Odyssey? If it's something you've heard before or if this is the first time and do you think you're going to try it out?

20:48Because I think you'll be I think you'll be like relatively surprised at how cool it is.

20:54But just like that, I'll see you in the next one. Peace.