Comment on YouTube, when the walls fell

jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because it’s not an alternative to people with YouTube as a job. It’s great if you want to have a couple of videos hosted and watchable by others. There is no way to monetize them by their very definition and mission statement. Their own website says it was “created for non-commercial purposes”. It’s his job though, so he’s not the target demographic.

  You could integrate sponsors, which he doesn’t do on YouTube either. Or redirect to patron or similar services.

  There’s also no (or very little) discoverable for people who watch sometime similar, which YouTube actually does extremely well. So how do you grow your audience?

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is no way to monetize them by their very definition and mission statement.

    There absolutely is:

    • merch sales
    • sponsorships
    • donations

    The only monetization you’d be missing out on is AdSense.

    Their own website says it was “created for non-commercial purposes”.

    Who? Peertube? What it was created for doesn’t matter when they don’t run your channel.

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    • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Again, he doesn’t do sponsorships and doesn’t want to. Missing out on “only” AdSense is one of two revenue streams (the other being donations/patron).

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So what you meant to say was that he does not want to, not that it’s impossible…?

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  • meldrik@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If he only lives on Adsense, sure. But even then, if he posted to PeerTube as well, would he actually be missing out on Adsense money, considering the few viewers in PeerTube atm?

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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The main thing is, to make it a viable option it would need at least thousands of viewers per video, and I’d need to figure out a new way to market that to any potential sponsors (or build up my Patreon/GH/direct support to make up for the vast gap in ad/sponsorship dollars).

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  • meldrik@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He should continue on YouTube as he’s always done and then slowly build his presence on PeerTube.

    Just because he starts also putting his videos on PeerTube, wouldn’t mean he suddenly lost all his viewers on YouTube.

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