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Nebula, launched in 2019 by an initial group of relevant Youtubers willing to gain autonomy from Youtube, is a paid video streaming platform. With over 150 creators totalling 120 million collective YouTube subscribers, and over 300.000 paid subscribers to the service, Nebula has emerged as the biggest video platform for independent creators in the world.
Nebula has a semi-cooperative structure, with governance and revenues shared by the creators on one side and the company Standard managing the streaming platform itself and the business relationships of creators on the other.
The service runs on its own infrastructure, with a large team of engineers constantly upgrading it, and it's available on the major operating systems.
Nebula is on CER as it’s the first successfull attempt—after over a decade of failures—at creating a popular streaming platform outside of Big Tech control, and this is remarkable in itself.
On top of this, Nebula is cooperatively owned by its workers with an interesting structure, and didn’t receive any Venture Capital investments to fund its operation, nor it intends to do so, while achieving economic sustainability.
The vast majority of the creators on the platform is progressive or left-leaning, and as such they constitute a strong voice for the Commons by generating high quality and engaging videos spanning a broad range of topics and formats, from education to entertainment, influencing the minds and hearts of millions worldwide.