Wait, are we acting like YouTube isn’t profitable now? If I’m going to spend money on videos it’ll be a content creator owner platform like Nebula
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timewarp@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoI forgot… where can I get my free data center with petabytes of storage & 300TB/s fiber interconnects?
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towerful@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
I get what you are saying, but the balance is off.
YT premium is more than a streaming service per month.
There are no industry leading movies or series released exclusively on YouTube.
YouTubes benefits of premium is “not being delivered ‘skip after 5 seconds’ live streams” that play indefinitely (or at least for hours).
Also, streaming services provide much better series discovery. Ie, find a show you like and easily discover the start of that series, then binge watch the entire series in order.
YT premium is basically a “play next” queue, 1080p, and no ads.
It doesn’t (AFAIK) support creators any more. It’s literally just a fee to not-be-inconvenienced, and it’s not great at that
auzy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yep… i actually looked at Subscribing. But… It’s basically mostly amateur hour and the subscription costs a huge amount.
Even worse, I don’t believe creators even get revenue until they exceed sufficient subscribers. So most people are actually paying youtube to put benefit from other people’s video’s which they have no involvement in.
stsquad@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
When did this change? AIUI creators got a larger cut of YouTube premium views compared to ad share.
auzy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Not sure if its subscribers or views… But, I tried to monitize one or two of my videos, and it wouldn’t let me because I don’t think I had enough views or something.