The three founders of Watcher Entertainment apologized to fans for their announcement that they were exiting YouTube and would put their new shows exclusively on their own subscription-streaming service. In response to a torrent of negative comments, Watcher’s Steven Lim, Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej said they were revising the plan — and will now make their originals available for free on YouTube on month after subscribers get access to them.
“We messed up,” Watcher CEO Steven Lim said in a YouTube video posted Monday.
Madej said in the video, “We’ve been reading the things you’ve been saying, and we’re sorry for the way we handled this,
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