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As it turns out artists detest being paid in exposure and prefer money.
by faeriechangling 3y ago
As it turns out artists detest being paid in exposure and prefer money.
- mardifoufs 3y agoTraffic is money. But if you are right, I guess the media corporations don't care since as you said, mere exposure is worthless. But they care a lot. So clearly that exposure must be worth something.
- bregma 3y agoTraffic is not money. Traffic is exposure. Ads are money. Facebook keeps the ad revenue and the media are left with the expense of creating content. Exposure my bare behind.
- ncann 3y ago"Traffic is exposure"? What are you talking about? People see links in Google and FB, a significant amount click on those links and visit the news site. How does FB keep the ad revenue? Your comment makes no sense.
- stephen_g 3y agoThat makes no sense. Social media drives people to the news site. Google and social media aren't showing all or even large parts of the articles. If the news website fails to monetise those visits then it's their problem...
- stephen_g 3y agoPaid for what? If Google and social media sites didn't send people to the news sites for free through links, then the news sites would have to pay for a lot more advertising to get the same visitors...