Got me thinking about how YouTubers get money. According to a quick web search, YT pays $0.01 to $0.03 per view. So if you release 10 videos a month, you made $0.10 per viewer. But Patreon memberships are typically around $5.00 a month, equivalent to $0.50 per view in the same scenario. Of course Patreon will take a cut, but it is still a lot more money.
So, if a lot of your viewers think your channel is good enough to donate to, ad money basically becomes an afterthought. In this case, the only advantage of YT over PT is discovery, i.e. the number of viewers likely to find your videos in the first place (but there's also more competition on YT, so...)
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Counter point: I dont want to watch content that has a monetary incentive behind it.
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Why exactly do you think people create content for you to consume in the first place?
MouldyCat@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Sharing knowledge. Lots of people are not primarily motivated by greed.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
That’s great to aspire for but there’s still an almost total lack of content in many genres I enjoy on YouTube. I don’t even think PeerTube has progressed as far as the Lemmy community in terms of content availability. Admittedly this is probably because text and image content is much easier to create, but as a user I don’t find much reason to spend time there yet.
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What content have you produced for free? Do you consider yourself greedy when you cash your work paychecks?
I know first hand that making content is a lot of work
3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 3 weeks ago
of course… but plenty are. When you see kids at school saying they want to be content creators as a job you know it is only going to get worse. I never said it was right or wrong but it is exactly what it is for a large percentage of people. Also can’t get past the fact that like googling something, watching a video on youtube is literally in peoples vocabulary
rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Should teachers stop making money too?
deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wanting to get paid for your work, so that you can keep making stuff, is in fact not the same thing as greed. We have this assumption that everything on the Web should be free, or at least helped along by donations, but it’s not sustainable.
smeg@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Plenty of people uploaded stuff to youtube for years before it started giving them any money
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Humans love sharing new things with each other, its part of our social structure and how we ensure our own survival. Its as natural as hunger or thirst.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Same, and it’s weird to me that so many people now believe that they deserve to be paid for participating in their hobbies.