For a second, I thought this required creators to watch 8000 hours of videos, and felt relief.
It would at least throw up an obstacle for bot/spam accounts. They’d have to make the effort of watching a bunch of videos.
…But no.
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I had a video of a newsworthy event a while back that went viral, and I made over 5 grand on it over the course of about 2-3 years when YouTube changed its monetization policy to require like 10k subscribers or something before the creator could monetize.
The video didn't stop getting views. It had a spike in views just a few weeks ago when something similar happened in the same area. But I haven't made any money from it in like 8 years.
Google removes ways of blocking ads> Google owns YouTube>YouTube makes new requirements to have monetization for creator content> YouTube has a ton of corporate sponsors that have a tie into creator content> No longer fun and easy to make money making videos due to advertisements.
Pichai you fucking banchode.
More adds and less money for creators.... Where is money going? We all know.
Why do so many people abbreviate adverts/advertisements to "adds".. where is the extra d coming from ?
If you watch adds, advertisers put their D where they want.
On the flip side, I am genuinely curious how much storage and processing time all the AI slop being uploaded is costing them. Some of that stuff is hours long, and like most videos on YouTube, most people aren't watching it.
Keep moving the goalposts so YT can just keep more of the ad money for themselves and the line moving up. More enshittification, nothing new is created but the service gets worse in the name of profitability.
Don't worry, guys. After creators eat THIS shit sandwich it'll stop getting worse and everything will be great.
I used to display Google ad links on my site, they accumulated value - slowly, but Google would only cut a check when you reach $100 worth of ads shown. My earnings approached $100 like an asymptote, halfway there in the first 6 months, 3/4 in the first year, 7/8 in the second year, 15/16 in the third... never did quite reach $100, and so my payout for all my effort and showing of their ads remains to this day $0.
I think it would be super easy for them to fudge the numbers on their side.
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I watch less YouTube than ever thanks to the sheerly ridiculous amount if ads.
Remember everybody. Get a vpn with a node in albania. Youtube cannot force a signin or display ads to people in albania.
Its really that simple.
Ads??
Yeah no kidding. Morphe is a blessing. Same with unlock.
Do you know where the option is in morphe to get the feed on the front page back? For some reason mine is blank suddenly and I don't know how to fix it
Might I suggest trying to update the app, both the pre-patched one and the patches applied.
Today I went on shorts and the first video was tucker carlson dropping antisemtic slurs while he cried about ben shapiro. I'm a lib. I don't watch that garbage. straight up shithole company.
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Big corp squeezing more money from people “because share holders want progress”. BS
What is the best social media platform for niche content creators? I'm thinking of starting a small project for one of my hobbies but I'd hope to make at least enough to pay for my setup (mic, camera, etc.). Is that unrealistic?
What is the best social media platform for niche content creators?
Like it or not, youtube still has the biggest audience and the best discovery algorithm (even with it's flaws).
And, even with this latest change, still pays better than other platforms.
I wouldn't count on it, my wife has been trying to the best of her abilities and at the limit of our financial reach...it's been 10 years so far, 20k on insta and recently picked up YouTube which was now getting close to getting paid pennies...but not anymore it seems.
You either have to get lucky or have the funds and means to keep pushing yourself into the system until you trip over success.
My wife had a single sponsor which paid her €20 per month but being sponsored by them led to her followers expecting her to behave like customer support 24/7.
She now has this co-op with a printer resin company where she gets a percentage of each sale...she made zero in the past 10 months of pushing the product.
At least she's happy for being able to share her interest and hobby with a fuckload of other people.
Nothing.. I for some reason just simply don't think nowdays you can start out unless you want to make dogshit ragebait content that acts on the emotion of others..
Maybe peertube?
I mean, if you're not going to make any money, why not? At least you might get some patreon.
The problem is surfacing content. She's going to need to subtlely advertise on threads, insta and tt, but once their AI gets wind of that, they'll piledrive your engagement into the ground
If youre doing niche hobby stuff why are you even talking about monetization? This is for people who dont have a real job and trying to make it in youtubes version of hollywood.
YouTube became evil the moment we all dislike-bombed their year in review video and they never made another one.
YouTube became evil when google ditched their slogan "don't be evil!".
So, it was evil from the start. It just needed to lure enough uncritical consumers in before enshittification started. Piece by piece.
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Work for free before getting paid! There will still be ads on your videos, but they ain't sharing the attention money.
Nice. Would be good to see youtube go away or go back to people making things for the love it.
Sadly, needing to regulate for CSA, etc. causes it all to get centralized. Also, it’d be great if everyone could self-host their content and then post the searchable in a fediverse indexing host or something?
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