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Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] superminerJG@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Let's just say, unless YouTube crosses people's bottom lines and there's an alternative being actively advertised, people won't move.

Otherwise, they push that bottom line further.

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The lack of alternatives where creators actually get paid for people watching their videos is the biggest problem.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Even youtube doesn't pay the creators that much. Lois Rossman in a recent video showed some of his video in YT that had over 200k views and generated ~100 USD of income.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 5 points 2 days ago

On a related note. Why would creators add sponsored segments/other sponsoring/patreon etc if YT pays them enough?

spoilerYT doesn't pay them enough. Unless your some kind of super star.

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

And that's probably what will kill them as payouts get worse and worse making other platforms more attractive as you're not losing as much. A lot of YouTubers I follow seem to becoming more and more reliant on Patreon as ad revenue goes down.

[–] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Nebula pays creators, and you pay to Nebula.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

I have nebula, but still pay also for YT subscriptions

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Agreed. Seems there no floor to what people will put up with from them. I can’t understand it. I’ve tried products and services I found that I absolutely hated. I don’t have those products or services anymore.

It’s pretty easy to not do something.