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Decription of YOBO

YOBO (Your Own Box Office) is a website where video creators can post their videos with the intention of making money (monetization), and video viewers can watch videos by paying the fees on a pay per view model.  It is much unlike YouTube in the following ways: One needs to be registered in YOBO to watch a video on it Watching a video costs some money on YOBO and it is paid from the YOBO wallet of the registered user. When a user is registered, a wallet is created for them and they are allowed to watch Rs. 10 worth of videos initially without loading up.  One can top up the wallet securely using Razorpay. YouTube has annoying advertisements during the video.  YOBO has no ads. YouTube has too much content and YOBO has no clutter. Only selected quality videos on YOBO. YOBO has a catalog and it is easy to havigate to the content of your choosing easily. The rating on the video is more reliable in YOBO because raters do it at the risk of compromizing their credibility. Credibility is fact

Home Remedies

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  What are home remedies? People are more stressed out these days and are consuming more toxic material than ever before, be it through food intake or air.  They know, western medicine has a lot of side effects.  So, all are very interested in Home Remedies for common illnesses and irritations.  Dr. Gowriamma is a well known Ayurveda practitioner with decades of experience.  She is a famous TV personality as well.  You can watch her videos on Home Remedies at yobovideos.in explained in beautiful Kannada.  Several nuggets of wisdom are tucked inside her videos under the series called Home Remedies in YOBO under the category "How To Guides".

Empires of South India

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  Which dynasties have ruled South India? You can watch the Empires of South India Series on YOBO at yobovideos.in.  In this series, there are several videos, each pertaining to a major empire of South India.  We have the following empires covered: Chalukyas Pallavas Hoysalas Shatavahanas Vijayanagara Kadambas Wodeyars Rashtrakootas Cholas These great empires shaped our land in South India in terms of Religion, Culture, Sculpture, Monuments, etc.  There is a lot of learning for us from the experience of these great dynasties and empires.  There is much information available on the Internet, but we have covered the important aspects about these kingdoms in a format that is consumable by you in a limited amount of time.  Go ahead, watch these videos at yobovideos.in under the History category.

Why YOBO as an OTT platform?

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  What is an online OTT platform? An Over the Air (OTT) platform houses videos or movies and provides access to these over the internet.  Amazon Prime Videos, Netflix are examples of these.  YOBO (Your Own Box Office) is the new entrant into the Online OTT world, but it focuses on Kannada videos organized into a catalog, mostly for the Kannada diaspora in various countries. What are the different types of OTT services? The goal of all OTT services would be to monetize the videos. Some do it based on the subscription model (e.g., Netflix, Amazon Prime Video) and some help with monetization based on ads (YouTube).  Most of the videos on YouTube do not result in monetization (no money is earned by the creator), only a few that have the right number of views, likes, subscribes, make money.  For a creator of a videos, to get their video listed on Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, is a distant dream.  YOBO is where people make money from the first view of their videos.  Viewers also benefit bec

YOBO Videos is the new generation of entertainment

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  This blogpost is all about Video based entertainment.  YOBO (Your Own Box Office) is a website at yobovideos.in at which creators of videos can upload their videos, specify a price for viewing their video and start making money from the first view, without barriers.  Users watch such a video paying the specified price from their YOBO Wallet, paying only for what they watch.  The users enjoy the next generation experience of watching videos from a well defined catalog without the clutter that one typically sees in YouTube.  Each video on YOBO has been approved by the YOBO admin, based on the quality and relevance. So, while in a place like YouTube which is a social networking site, you can find millions and millions of videos with no admission control, in the case of YOBO, you have a well defined catalog set of videos, perhaps, all of them being relevant to the YOBO users. YOBO admins seek out videos of a certain type based on what the YOBO userbase wants to see.  Sometimes, YOBO itse