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Is there enough of a market for extremely short YouTube videos so that people could make a living just making “It’s 2 videos stitched together”? Honestly, my h
by joshspankit 5y ago
Is there enough of a market for extremely short YouTube videos so that people could make a living just making “It’s 2 videos stitched together”?
Honestly, my heart wants it to be true.
- sonar_un 5y agoShort videos get killed by the YouTube algorithm since it’s difficult to show ads.
- manquer 5y agoThey do youtube shorts for 1 minute videos
- joshspankit 5y agoRight! Exactly! That’s why I’m curious if it’s possible for creators to make 1-2 sentence videos that are profitable enough for the platform those videos are on that they can pay the creators well.
- dredmorbius 5y agoI think that's where TikTok and other emerging video platforms might have an edge. Imgur includes a fair bit of video with roughly a 60s cap. Monetisation seems mostly to be based around branding / influencing.
- selimthegrim 5y agoPretty soon the industry will be reduced to bunches of three preteen content creators in a trenchcoat.
- emodendroket 5y agoYeah, TikTok.
- joshspankit 5y agoHahaha, I knew this comment was coming. Fun fact: TikTok is experimenting with longer videos. I think they’re up to 3min already.
- emodendroket 5y agoEventually all these things converge on an identical feature set, I guess.
- joshspankit 5y agoI never understood why. Look at Snapchat: when it was just 1:1 messages that disappeared people got that. People liked it, used it, tried to get their friends on it, and so-on. Now it’s instagram, so why not just use instagram? By moving away from their market differentiator they made themselves replaceable.