YouTube, when the walls fell

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• jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, it’s a shame he doesn’t seem to be considering PeerTube

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  • Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • meldrik@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Shaka, when his videos were demonitized.

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• thegr8goldfish@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel

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