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I'm not that familiar with Patreon, only that some of the YouTube channels I watch solicit donations on it. Do the creators on Patreon get access to an email l
by eeeeeeeeeeeee 8y ago
I'm not that familiar with Patreon, only that some of the YouTube channels I watch solicit donations on it.
Do the creators on Patreon get access to an email list of their "patreons"? Obviously they could blast out a new payment site on their YouTube channel, but I'm just curious what an exfiltration would look like.
I do think you're probably right that if Patreon oversteps and upsets their creators, those people will move to another service (and I'm sure someone will be waiting to offer the same thing cheaper).
I don't see why even Kickstarter or Gofundme couldn't offer this very service without much work. It looks like YouTube already is experimenting with paid channel subscriptions.
- stcredzero 8y agoIt looks like YouTube already is experimenting with paid channel subscriptions. I think their cut is many times that of Patreon's, though.
- rcthompson 8y agoAs a creator on Patreon, you can always make posts that are sent to all of your patrons. So you can just make a post on Patreon saying "Hey, I'm shutting this down and moving to [other platform] instead" and all your patrons will see it. Whether they follow you to the new platform is up to them, of course. I've seen at least one creator that I support do exactly this, moving to Ko-Fi. I followed them, but I don't think Ko-Fi publicly shows the total monthly donations a person receives, so I have no idea what the attrition rate was on the migration.
- Kye 8y agoKickstarter had Drip, but they kept it invite-only two years too long, then shut down new invites and gave it to XOXO. No one who's talking knows what they're doing with it.