LOS ANGELES — Amazon has taken on YouTube by offering another venue where anyone can post videos and get paid for it. But the e-tailer has made the process much more cumbersome than its main rival.

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The online giant launches a platform open to any video creator, an in-your-face move to the likes of YouTube, Facebook and Vimeo. Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET News in Manhattan, ...

Amazon has launched its own YouTube-style service that lets people upload their own videos. The service, called Amazon Video Direct, pays people royalties based on three metrics: video rental price, ...

Upending YouTube will be hard, but Amazon's unlikely bet still appears worth the risk. Earlier this month, Amazon announced a new platform, called Amazon Video Direct, which will allow members to ...