Submitted 3 days ago by Today@lemmy.world to [deleted]
I searched a bit and found that channels with more than 1000 subscribers and 4000 views earn money. Can i subscribe and set my tv to play videos for a favorite charity all day and have that earn $ (even if it’s only a few cents per day) for them?
running video uses a fair amount of power. Both on your end and in the datacenter. I bet sending them 10 bucks a month would do better for them. Heck even a fiver.
I appreciate what you’re trying to do, but you should look into the numbers. I follow a channel that went through their YouTube earnings a while back. 225k subscribers, long-form (20-30 minutes) videos getting 30k views each.
He got about $40/video.
The only way you could make the math work -at all- is if you’re already on resistive heat and you only do it during winter. In any other scenario, you’ll spend more on electricity than they will get in revenue. Even in this one, it’s ignoring things like increased wear for what might not even be pennies of revenue.
Just give them 10 bucks a month dude
That will earn them more money than you will give them by YouTube viewing.
I do give. Just wondered if there was a way to get them a little extra.
Yes, you could give them a little extra.
Sure, just give them 20 a month instead of 10.
Wouldn’t you get marked as a viewer bot for doing that?
Yes. I regularly leave a 30+ minute video playing on the background as I fall a sleep partly for this reason.
Even if not for everything else mentioned here, I see TVs with the official YouTube client stuck at “Are you still watching?” in public from time to time, so there’s that.
Miller@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Surely a direct donation would ensure more of your money got to them.
Today@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I give, but also looking for a way to make YouTube (or meta or any of those algorithm fuckers) give them $.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
The money ultimately comes from advertisers, and it increases the profits of those social media companies, or how do you think their business model works…