The race is finally on for the website will be dominant video sharing platform for gun related content apart from YouTube. With the YouTube getting strict on content on firearms, some enterprising individuals and companies are launching their own services with GunStreamer being the latest to appear on our radar.

GunStreamer was launched in March 2018 joining other sites for the attention of gun content developers such as GunVideo.com and Full30.com.  In its press release, GunStreamer describes itself as “a user-generated video sharing site, featuring anything related to guns or weapons for informational and entertainment purposes.”

The creator of the site, Austin Roberts said that, "Changes in some platform policies are alienating a large population of gun & weapon enthusiasts. These are hobbyists helping other hobbyists and they have no where to go with these greater restrictions. We're hoping to change that."

With the entry of GunStreamer, there are more options from developers of firearm videos to go choose where their videos will be uploaded if YouTube becomes a hostile place for them. Now it is just a matter of which platform gives them the most benefit.

While many firearms videos are done by hobbyists who would like to share a thing or two about their knowledge there are those who make making firearm related content such as videos for a living. YouTube’s ad-revenue sharing scheme has been lucrative to those who have a good number of subscribers and high viewing times. So far, this is what these new platforms do not offer and also the question if their existing infrastructure (video hosting) will be able to handle thousands and thousands of videos. YouTube became a scalable behemoth it is right now when it got snapped up by Google in 2006.

But then, advertisers came in when they see more eyeballs at videos on YouTube when it started racking up millions and millions of viewers. It will take some time for these websites to get that traction unless the firearms industry would move their ad monies and spread them out to these sites. But will revenues be more than enough to bring the more famous ones in?

Now, which one will dominate after a few years? Place your bets now.