The first large-scale production of tapes of the 1st HTSC generation (BSCCO) was created by American Superconductor, a US company in Jan. 2003, which is the world's leading HTSC wire plant.
However, in 2006 production of BSCCO tapes was stopped, and the company focused on creating large-scale staff technology of HTSC tapes of the 2nd generation based on the YBCO superconductor.
According to the mentioned research work, the company believes that the new conductors in the future will be cheaper and better tapes based on BSCCO.
For YBCO the advantage can be seen in a fig. that compares Tc (K) versus B(Tesla) showing that superconductivity is stable above N2 liquid temperatures for YBCO more than for other HTSC such as BSCCO, MgB2, Nb3Sn and Nb-Ti, please check Fig. 3 in:
Tapes based on high-temperature-superconductor technologies and promising applications (2011) by S.Samoilenkov, A. Kuchaev, S. Ivanov, and A. Kaul, (in Russian & CC commons license)
Superconducting tapes for technological application needs to have other materials for good strength and thermal conductivity along with the superconductor. This need not vary too much for superconductor to superconductor.