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99% of the affected channels make less than $100 per year. I don't think most of these types of videos are made with a plan to make money. I think people like m
by cloudwalking 9y ago
99% of the affected channels make less than $100 per year. I don't think most of these types of videos are made with a plan to make money. I think people like making videos explaining things they understand.
- manmal 9y agoExactly. If they care about monetization, they would sell merchandise or use Patreon or similar.
- gm3dmo 9y agoI've gone with patreon to support smaller channels, 1 to 10 dollars each, budget 20 dollars a month. Mentions among creators drives me to new channels and I add to Patreon.
- Macha 9y agoThe TOS bans patreon etc. links unless you meet monetisation requirements: https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/28/16380186/youtube-patreon-demonetization-policy https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/28/16380186/youtube-patreon-d...
- sundvor 9y agoHa. That's gold.
- gkya 9y agoIf you have a following in Patreon or any other similar platform, it shouldn't be that hard to jump ship and start uploading somehwere else. Any serious internet publisher should have at least one alternate channel for followers. I'd go with Twitter and a newsletter, so if YouTube decides to screw me, I can tell people "hey, I'm moving to [random platform here]". Patreon allows you to communicate with your followers too, so going, you can take your actual contributing followers with you wherever you want (theoretically).
- Macha 9y agoThis describes the benefit of being diversified but it doesn't explain how you get there in the face of YouTube's efforts to prevent that. I mean you could plug your Twitter then plug your patreon there but then you're relying on the YT -> Twitter conversion rate multiplied by the Twitter -> Patreon conversion rate. You could just plug it verbally and skirt the enforcement of the YouTube rules that way, but if they became concerned enough they have automatic transcription and did start enforcing it on annotations/descriptions...
- sundvor 9y agoI find it almost callous that not only do they make it super hard for "small timers" to monetize their channel using their own product, but then proceed to block any efforts to let fans contribute via others.
- DominikD 9y agoNot everyone lives in the US. $100 for me or you may not be worth putting hundreds of hours into making a bunch of videos but it may be for others. My father's late friend used to do that since he was disabled and had few other options. He was in this sub-$100 category.
- masto 9y agoI'm not particularly interested in the money, but I am worried that features I want to use will be restricted to partners.