Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership
mesamunefire@piefed.social 17 hours agoI guess the point is channels are seeing a dropping viewership across the board. Or at least two different creators of VERY different videos have had the same experience so far. And the reddit thread behind this has more people (assuming they are telling the truth) confirming the drop.
baines@lemmy.cafe 13 hours ago
orclev@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
It seems like YouTube is doing something where they don’t consider views to be actual “views” anymore. I saw one creator reporting that you only get credit as a view if you also leave a comment on the video because I guess Google thinks this will somehow hamper bots? Sounds like a bunch of bullshit no matter how you look at it. Personally I think Google is just trying to avoid paying creators so they’re only crediting them for a fraction of the views they get, but you just know they’re charging those advertisers for every single view whether they’re paying the creators or not.
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 16 hours ago
Way back in the day I was making $500 a month with AdSense ads on my sites. And then one month I started making $250 a month. I hadn’t changed anything. It’s a risky thing to rely on.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
What a moronic move. I almost never post comments but I watch plenty of content.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Commenting on YouTube videos is just shouting into the void
orclev@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Same, but it depends on the goal. If the goal is to have an excuse not to pay creators while still cashing paychecks from advertisers it seems like a pretty smart move. A dick move certainly, but seems to be working exactly as intended.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
This I believe.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 16 hours ago
You might be right.