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Downloading a video locally is more bandwidth intensive than streaming (they're the same if you watch the whole video, but if you're streaming and quit halfway through, that's only half the size).
Storage is cheap if you're some sort of curated thing like Netflix or a small service hosting just the videos for your blog. It's phenomenally expensive if you're doing what YouTube does and letting anyone upload as much as they want permanently.
Bandwidth for a small thing (blog) isn't horrible until something goes viral, then you have a choice between your site slowing to a crawl until it's unusable (traditional hosting), suddenly going dark (cloud with a spending limit), or suddenly costing an arm and a leg (cloud).