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[-] Guster@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair, the only reason why YouTube got so big and stayed relevant is THANKS to the ads. Do you think there would be incentives for creators to create good content if there wasn't as revenue?

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 12 points 1 year ago

It got big when there were no ads and nobody got paid. People made stuff for shits and giggles, and Google had infinite budget to just fund things. Then everything started to change a decade or so ago and now we've got this Like&Subscribe corponet situation everywhere.

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

This is true but I blame the economy for squeezing people into needing to monetize what used to be harmless, fun hobbies.

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Most of the creators have sponsored segments that's how they make money nowadays...

[-] BackStabbath@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But not everyone does right? I feel like you have to be a fairly big/popular channel to have sponsors. I'm pretty sure smaller channels can only depend on ad revenue.

[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

For Raids Shadow Legends, NordVPN or things like that I don't think you need to be too big, I see some videos of channels around 50k with sponsors.

Below that number of subscribers the channel doesn't get much of ad revenue anyway, most of the money goes to google anyway.

[-] Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Why would I fuck your mom without a profit incentive?

[-] exohuman@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

This! So much this! On top of that, the amount of video YouTube processes is insanely expensive. We are talking billions of views of streaming video served instantly.

[-] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

The way I see it is that anyone can put up an ad wherever they want but in my own space I’m allowed to do whatever I like to block it out. Feel free to show them to me but my eyes so I decide what to look at with them, and the tools that modern systems have are the same as the cardboard I put on my window when I was young to block out the gas station lights across the street.

If they tell me I’m no longer allowed to look out the window without being blinded by neon, there’s a 100% chance I’ll move.

[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

You're right, they took the incentive away over and over again and drove my favorite creators out. Now that the value is lower and the uncertainty is high - now they're charging a lot more for the product.

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