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Didn't realize Jack Conte was behind Patreon. Good for him!
I need to buy a boat and get paid to sail it around the world.
Hasn't seen this, so thanks for putting it up (again:) ).
I like a lot of what he has to say, especially about the mechanisms. What I am sure of is that this IS the Wild West and history is being written.
+1
Hey everyone,
Many thanks for the subs and suggestions, I am touched by your responses.
I was only making about £60 a year so it’s not about the money lost, it’s just that gives you a little boost that you could actually make a little cash for doing what you love.
With the new algorithms etc most tubers are complaining about lost earnings, and the swearing issues. I think that YouTube are forgetting that we make the content, and without us they would have nothing.
In April they did a rule that anyone with less than 10000 total views was not eligible, are they going to keep upping the requirements??
They are making a lot of money for very little effort, and it seems to me they are getting greedy.
I’ll still keep making my vids, just a little de- motivated....
@KlaatuNinja I love the 'live-jams' you do on Youtube experimenting with different apps and showing that it's not the app but the user that truly matters when it comes to the end result
Honestly this isn't a big deal at all. Making YouTube videos is a hobby for most and if $2 a month is going to break apart your hobby then perhaps it is time to reconsider how well you are doing at your hobby that you can't pull in more users. If you want to earn money at YouTube you need to create content that is appealing and really work at expanding your audience... and I would say less than 1,000 subscribers and <4,000 hours of viewing time it is still a hobby and you should not be paid for it.
For most of us, it just isn't worth the effort. We make more money at our day jobs and this level of activity doesn't even qualify us for pocket money as it is. And certainly this is going to be helpful by getting rid of a whole lot of overhead plus all those fly by night spam accounts that like to rip off people's content for 10s or 100s of views at a time times 100s or thousands of accounts... it all adds up to real money.
Every human endeavor is fallible including capitalism. It's a great system until you throw unhinged greed into the equation along with the "no growth is failure" ethos of modern corporations.
For example, a company can 300 mill profit one quarter and it's a success but if it makes 290 mill profit the next quarter the sky is falling & it's time for cutbacks, firings etc. You still made 290 mill PROFIT!!! But nope, not as much as before...
YouTube/Google needs that £60 a lot more than @KlaatuNinja I guess...
Man I'm sorry that's the case, your videos are cool and in the end this kind of thing dissuades people from even creating content. Hang in there, iOS Music needs cats like you.
Will YouTube still show ads on your videos even though you get nothing anymore?
As a content creator Shazamm the iPad Producer, Im very upset with youtube. They did something and they kick my videos out, I was getting 36,000 to 80,000 views now to 4,000. Every video I put out now in a day or so youtube says its not being seen, gives me things to do that lead to no results or real people. I have emailed and tried many different avenues and my view count has been trash. I was making a couple hundred a month from youtube to 100 bucks every few months. I have no problem sharing this info with you guys because we are fam bam. Now I just make videos to share learn and help the IOS community
Content creators and internet marketers have been getting squeezed by the big companies for years now and it keeps getting worse. The whole "quit your job and make money in your PJs with a YouTube/Facebook page/website" dream has been been shattered. FB now barely shows 2% of a page's post to its followers (and Zuckerberg just said it's going to get worse this year, sending the stock price down). YouTube continues the demonetization. Amazon keeps lowering commissions for affiliates. Google Adsense revenue per click is a shadow of what it used to be. SEO is a joke now. For a few years, I made "quit your job" kind of money via internet marketing. But then the squeeze came in from all directions against the small guy and it just became not worth it anymore. I was making 10% or less than I used to - not because of a lack of demand. But because the big corporations squeezed us to fatten their pockets. The only one I have sour grapes towards is FB. They told business pages early on to spend money on ads to attract followers the pages. But what FB didn't tell us was that it was going to decimate the reach of our posts to these new followers. That was a bit fraudulent imho.
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All the people and groups who aren't mega corporations or government associated sources...........
Since it is now 1984
I am gonna party like it is 1999
Subscribed as well. I spend a hell of a lot of time on youtube. Love it. Although I’m pretty far from that 1000.
May i suggest you take a look at dTube and the Steemit platform as a alternatives to YouTube and Facebook. It’s totally decentralized and we can even make crypto-money by posting and watching each others videos.
Probably worth wheeling this "old" chestnut out ...
'If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold' - blue_beetle (John Lennon, I guess ... Sorry, a sad attempt at a Wiggles reference, it won't happen again)
Good suggestion, Steemit has got the incentives right. Watched their site go from nothing to blowing up.
Their block chain and similar are the future for decentralized apps, can’t come soon enough.
I am on steemit/dtube but not making any big splashes there in terms of views, the concept is sound, I think
Bummer. Thankfully I have two more channels that meet the requirements but funny story the one they recently messaged me about is my old Peace Love Productions channel which hosts my old Looptastic video (circa 2009) I was so stoked to be working on this content back then at Sound Trends. It really was one of the first cutting edge loop apps on first gen iPhone. Proud to be a part of that history.
I sold PLP in 2007 so I just stopped thinking about that channel anyway no biggie I suppose.
I subscribed. If nothing else, you know you’re not whistling into the void.
I subscribed also. Good luck!
Oh yes and I subbed too
Yes. Google and everything it does has gone downhill for quite a while.
Subscribed. Had the dog subscribe too (don't laugh, he has very good taste). There is a future, it may not be just yet however.
One of the local finger style guitar players, Don Alder, just posted the same thing on FB. He’s an actual working artist. The problem he sees is that he has to tour to make money, so he doesn’t have enough time to make videos to keep his counts going. So that avenue is done. The thing is, how many people in that situation are going to struggle through - is it still worth the bother, as far as marketing yourself goes.
I honestly don’t know enough about YouTube’s business model to understand where money is coming from, or going to. But, being as it’s all free, they can do whatever the hell they want. Whether it’s good for overall business, time will tell.
Subscribed!
I just found out my video on YouTube has received 7.5 million hits but on someone else’s channel. Can I still monetize it? It’s a series of hip hop impressions I did on TV w Steve Harvey in 2004.. So the material isn’t original but it’s still me doing it . I’ve Googled and it’s a little confusing . Any tips or direction?
Either way the channel owner isn’t entitled to monetize the content. Possibly the TV company…
I saw YouTube similar to how I saw Spotify and Instagram. They’re only a platform to share content. The real money is to be made touring and selling merch.
Even in the hey day of cd and tape casettes, there were so many bootleg copies going around. How do I know this? I’ve never bought an original CD or Tape cassette because we never had any stores around that sold original stuff in my town of 10 million people.
Manufacturing costs, label costs, advertising cost eats into the revenue that would have been made.
Now, why do I say this? Well, I’m trying to encourage anyone that sees this. Do gigs outside of your home. Whether it’s the local bar, church, on the street. You’ll make more money that way than posting content on YouTube.
I recently hit 1000 subscribers and it took me 3 years and over 300 videos made. I’ve still made $0 from YouTube. But I went touring this summer and not only did i meet a ton of amazing people I’d never thought i’d meet, I made over $2000 to invest in a major project that I may share on a later date.
If neither you, nor the other channel owns the content, then neither should be getting compensated for it. Steve Harvey's production company or the TV network where you appeared owns the video. I suppose you could report the other channel, but unless you're the direct copyright holder YouTube doesn't care.
The music biz is tough. Tons of competition and not enough demand because we're exposed to music literally everywhere. Touring (and merch sales), song licensing and making music for niche markets are a couple of ways musicians can make money these days. If you're the next Justin Bieber* (or similar hidden talent), you'll be discovered quickly these days thanks to so many different platforms for artists and musicians. Anything novel or different rises fast.
(*Regardless of what you think of Justin Bieber, he was a YouTube discovery and has certainly managed to have a long career so far for a pop star.)