More adds and less money for creators… Where is money going? We all know.
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.
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.
I’m with you there. When I see “adds”, I want to know where they’re coming from and who’s going to tank them.
Ads, on the other hand, those I’m content with knowing my adblocker is taking care of it.
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.
I know nothing about how YT works. How is 20 million shorts views in 90 days a viable number? That seems ridiculous.
I guess they’ll keep pushing it till the line starts going down.
Pichai you fucking banchode.
And they will continue to bleed talent for every ounce of value they can, just like the record industry, the movie and tv industry, the book industry, the video game industry, enshitification is an emergent property of a degree of value extraction.
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.
Good luck creating content, shittube
You can make money on YouTube without having a monetized account. But you can also make money on PeerTube in exactly the same way.
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.
Jesus who watches this much yt? The only thing I watch are a couple of how to videos a month. It boggles my mind that people watch so much pure crap.
Then they removed their ads from all channels below 8,000 hours, right?.. Right?!
No, AFAIK they still push ads on you whether you’re monetized or not.
I got “removed” from adsense around 2005. There had better not be ads on my vids.
Reminds me of that woman who made science videos on both YouTube and Pornhub and she makes more money on Pornhub.
If I’m remembering correctly it was more money per view on pornhub but she had significantly more views on YouTube so the total amount per platform was still significantly in YouTube favor.
Still wild that a porn site theoretically pays better than Google.
I have no clue how common adblock is among YouTube users, but there’s probably a bigger chunk of pornhub viewers on mobile.
Pornhub is also in an unique place, given a lot of advertisers won’t advertise there. Pushing prices down, but simultaneously a different set of advertisers can only advertise there. Pushing the price up. I have absolutely no clue whether or not pornhub charge more per ad view than Google ad services on average
the porn hub ones nude ? like getting undressed as she’s explaining a black hole.
Have a channel url ? asking for a friend
Yeh, that’s why I love pornhub. The science is on point.
idk, pornhub brings google into your porn habits, I don’t want to deal with google at all.
That is actually interesting to know. Makes a person wonder what is the demographic watching the videos and why.
The end result is that channels will just post twice as much slop to get to those hours and actually human creators give up, meaning YouTube becomes even more sloppified.
The end result is that channels will just post twice as much slop to get to those hours
Slop doesn’t get return viewers, which is counter-productive to reaching a watch hours (or subscribers) threshold.
As Google intended.
SlopTube powered by Sloople 🤭
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.
And when you have “proof” they fudged their numbers, how exactly do you make the monster pay? It’s definitely a rigged game.
And they will never stop extracting more value. I just want to prop nebula here, it’s great for creators and there’s a lot of them already on there.
The only thing ‘missing’ is the commenting system, but to me that’s an upgrade.
Comm Systems is essential for the community pointing out mistakes or wrong doings
Nebula is awesome. I took a gamble with them and bought lifetime during their second round two years ago and never regretted it. It has only been getting better, here’s to hope that they keep direction.
And if you want comedy, Dropout (formerly College Humor) is a great service that openly encourages you sharing your account with your friends.
The only streaming platform I sub to is Dropout and I happily do it. I believe I stumbled upon Breaking News first, watched first season or so on the high seas. I was in tears from laughing and I’ve been subbed ever since. Great value for the money, imo.
