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> So you want to instead do the exact opposite – ask the consumers to pay and fund your creators with that money. I think it's only Onlyfans that can get away
by s_ting765 4y ago
> So you want to instead do the exact opposite – ask the consumers to pay and fund your creators with that money.
I think it's only Onlyfans that can get away with such a business model.
- meheleventyone 4y agoTwitch, Patreon etc. etc. Arguably also Netflix, Roblox and free-to-play mobile games run on this sort of scheme as well.
- NationOfJoe 4y agoalso i guess YouTube is that as well, Consumers pay with attention to ad's, YouTube red, Channel members, super chat.
- paxys 4y agoOnlyfans may be an extreme example of it, but all such successful platforms – YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch and the rest – are paying their popular users a lot of money to stay there.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> > So you want to instead do the exact opposite – ask the consumers to pay and fund your creators with that money. > I think it’s only Onlyfans that can get away with such a business model. OnlyFans is not (by far) the only site that has a business model of “consumers purchase from producers and the site rakes in a share from that”, nor even the only one (again, by far) with that model where what is purchased is digital content.
- s_ting765 4y agoHow many people are willing to directly pay for content on those other platforms vs those who are not? Contrast that to Onlyfans' monetization success rate.
- warkdarrior 4y agoSpotify?
- s_ting765 4y agoJust checked. They do have an impressive conversation rate (42% of total MAU [0]) if the numbers are true. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/25/23423510/spotify-total-subscribers-rogan-markle https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/25/23423510/spotify-total-s...