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CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months agoYou are absolutely correct— major blog hosting, image hosting, and video hosting sites are all “free” for the content creator, but YouTube by far has the largest audience and highest monetization rates of any of them.
This is just creators buying in with their wallets; it makes sense to go where the money is, even if the format sucks for the idealized content consumer.
tal@lemmy.today 7 months ago
It sounds like this particular YouTube channel may take money to promote products – it has a bit on “contacting the creator about business opportunities”. I suppose that that would be independent of ad revenue, though not of audience size.
CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I wouldn’t immediately jump to that conclusion. There are plenty of legitimate business opportunities that do not imply “taking money to promote products”. Even properly disclosed free samples are standard operating procedure for the tech industry, but they are completely above board, and by themselves do not imply bias.