What about Rumble? GN is on there and directly supportable.
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rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day agoSo, there are options.
You have three challenges:
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You need to be discoverable
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you need to be accessible
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you need to monetize
If you just make videos and torrent them, you’re not monetized, you’re not discoverable and you’re not really very accessable to the average person.
Youtube is this nifty one-stop-shop that provides all three to a certain point.
Peertube gives you some discoverability and lots of accessibility, but nothing for monetization.
Odysee gives you a tiny bit of discoverability and lots of accessibility, but almost nothing for monetization.
Floatplane (assuming GN wasn’t feuding with LMG) gives you reasonable monetization and accessibility but almost nothing in discoverability.
xep@discuss.online 1 day ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
He’s got 935 followers and about 20,000 views there
Rumble only takes half the cut YouTube does, But the amount of traffic on there is microscopic compared to YouTube. There’s some room there to make money.
The vast majority of the content on there is a conservative echo chamber. I’d be a little worried about his ability to maintain journalistic integrity against big companies in that ecosystem. I’m also wondering what their ads look like ;)
xep@discuss.online 23 hours ago
The vast majority of the content on there is a conservative echo chamber.
TIL. It’s always rather amusing as someone outside of America that posts containing factual information get downvotes purely based on the perceived alignment of the subject on the zero-nuance American Political Spectrum.
rumba@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
I certainly didn’t downvote you.
It’s definitely not a bad idea to look. Rumble is probably the second best option which is why he’s there. But spend about 2 minutes looking around on rumble and it’s like taking your dinner in the sewer. Anti-woke, anti-DEI, crypto, people praising armed military flooding into the streets of peaceful cities. The second most popular channel on there is newsmax which is literally propaganda. His will be able to resonate with the people that are there, But the rest of the content on the site is so edgy that it pushes away the vast majority.
One of the biggest complaints about the platform is the lack of traffic. The ease of use is there, the monetization is there, but the discovery isn’t.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Surely torrent distributed video can still have sponsorships in it, stick it up as a video on your own website is an option too. Could even go for low res video on website (cheap to host) along with an option of HD torrent.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
socialblade.com/youtube/handle/gamersnexus
He gets around 750 Million Youtube verified views per month , he’s releasing about 5 hours of content per month.
He’s not self-hosting that cheaply.
His sponsors are giving him the a nice pile of money based on his view count, he’s not going to manage that on his own without the algo pumping users to him. Search engines kind of suck and video bloggers at that scale need organics to keep going.
You can’t add monetization without discoverability and accessibility.
Looking at those numbers, I don’t even know that peertube could handle it, he’d probably need to setup his own cluster to mirror them all.
There’s a reason why we don’t have a lot of competition to YouTube.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
We need a site that points peertube users to the accounts of their old youtube favorites.
ICastFist@programming.dev 6 hours ago
He’d probably have to have a dedicated video hosting site, not unlike GameTrailers and similars from the very early 2010s
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Theoretically, you could try to rely on patreon to have your audience pay you directly, but without discoverability, they will slowly dwindle and die. As to corporate sponsors, no one is going to pay for ads on torrented shows.