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I think you're about 5ish years out of date. Most of the sites on cameras, gadgets, games, cars e.t.c. are dead or dying and have been replaced by youtube chan

I think you're about 5ish years out of date. Most of the sites on cameras, gadgets, games, cars e.t.c. are dead or dying and have been replaced by youtube channels, many of them run by hobbyists.

jjulius 3y ago
The same rhetorical question still applies for hobbyist YT channels, IMO. Especially since many of them lock the more useful content behind subscription walls.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  >Especially since many of them lock the more useful content behind subscription walls. useful content? which ones? average youtuber incentives (be it through YT or Patreon) tend to just be a community private server on Discord to talk to the creator with. Or cut content that they couldn't air on youtube anyway (e.g. extended commentary on a video that would be de-monitized otherwise. There's way too much competition to lock out signifigant part of a Youtube's channel's content.
sbarre 3y ago
Ehh sure, that's a take. There's still plenty (too many?) commercial websites - most that include their own YouTube channel - trying to compete for eyeballs by repackaging the same preview/review/press materials that companies send out.. They're no longer the only game in town though, that's for sure. I don't disagree that many hobbyists (definition up for debate) can compete on merit for the audience, which is awesome of course.
mewse 3y ago
Hobbyists who are sponsored by NordVPN. ;)
- JohnFen 3y ago
  They represent a small fraction of the hobbyists on the web. The majority that I see aren't wanting or accepting sponsors of any sort.
whstl 3y ago
This is an interesting point in the SEO conversation. SEO, content farms and content marketing are killing the open web and Google is enabling it, perhaps because they're ok with the web being replaced by 4 or 5 websites, Youtube being the biggest of them.
macguyvermectin 3y ago
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I think you're about 5ish years out of date. Most of the sites on cameras, gadgets, games, cars e.t.c. are dead or dying and have been replaced by youtube channels, many of them run by hobbyists.

jjulius 3y ago

The same rhetorical question still applies for hobbyist YT channels, IMO. Especially since many of them lock the more useful content behind subscription walls.

johnnyanmac 3y ago
>Especially since many of them lock the more useful content behind subscription walls. useful content? which ones? average youtuber incentives (be it through YT or Patreon) tend to just be a community private server on Discord to talk to the creator with. Or cut content that they couldn't air on youtube anyway (e.g. extended commentary on a video that would be de-monitized otherwise. There's way too much competition to lock out signifigant part of a Youtube's channel's content.

sbarre 3y ago

Ehh sure, that's a take. There's still plenty (too many?) commercial websites - most that include their own YouTube channel - trying to compete for eyeballs by repackaging the same preview/review/press materials that companies send out.. They're no longer the only game in town though, that's for sure. I don't disagree that many hobbyists (definition up for debate) can compete on merit for the audience, which is awesome of course.

mewse 3y ago

Hobbyists who are sponsored by NordVPN. ;)

JohnFen 3y ago
They represent a small fraction of the hobbyists on the web. The majority that I see aren't wanting or accepting sponsors of any sort.

whstl 3y ago

This is an interesting point in the SEO conversation. SEO, content farms and content marketing are killing the open web and Google is enabling it, perhaps because they're ok with the web being replaced by 4 or 5 websites, Youtube being the biggest of them.

macguyvermectin 3y ago

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