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YouTube takes 30% for "joining" the channel.

• Barrin92 4y ago
  Youtube is also a genuine platform that gets you an audience and discoverability, gets you ad revenue, and hosts your content (which in the case of streaming video is very much non-trivial technically). Patreon is a donation button with a feed. It's effectively a payment processor and in most of the world the margins in that industry are a fraction of a percent. This is Youtube vs Patreon (https://www.pymnts.com/subscriptions/2022/vimeo-raises-rates-on-creators-many-of-them-patreon-users/ https://www.pymnts.com/subscriptions/2022/vimeo-raises-rates...) "She says she began making subscriber-only Patreon content in 2020 and hosting it on Vimeo. Then came the notice from Vimeo on March 11 that van Baarle’s bandwidth usage was in the top 1% of Vimeo’s users. So if she wanted to keep hosting her content on the site, she’d need to upgrade to a custom plan that could run her as much as $3,500 a year, given a week to make changes or leave the site. The Verge noted that her experience was just one of many — numerous Patreon creators received the notice, which has resulted in “confusion and panic.”
  • aahortwwy 4y ago
    Before Patreon people had direct links to donate to them on PayPal. You can still that (or use Stripe, or Ko-Fi, or whatever). So why do people use Patreon? The answer to that is why Patreon can charge what they do.
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  • unity1001 4y ago
    That's Vimeo, not Patreon. I heard that Patreon already solved that issue by working with Vimeo. And you can't post member-only videos at Youtube. Also, Youtube is just Youtube - you can't monetize your presence in other platforms with it.