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The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube

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Re: The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube

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Post by vouaobrasil »

Scoundreller wrote: post #299
vouaobrasil wrote: post #127

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Hey 3880 subs is pretty good. I'm still on 241. haha. It actually takes a lot of effort to get past 1000 subs/5000 watch hours, which is the minimum for monetization.

The minimum for you to monetize it. Google will gladly sell ads and keep 100% until then. I wouldn’t have built what became a $2000/month revenue website if I didn’t start making $2/month, then more work to get to $20/month, then 200, then 2000 over ~5 years. YouTube is shooting itself in the foot with its monetization cutoffs.

I agree, I wish they would let me monetize my channel now :(

Re: The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube

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Post by Ruthalas »

jvzr wrote: post #233
mierle wrote: post #171

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Take a look at Veritasium's perspective on this issue [1]. Veritasium reflects on clickbait thumbnails from the content producer perspective, and balances that against the motivation behind YouTube's algorithms. His final conclusion is that cilckbait isn't all bad, and that it serves an important purpose for both viewers and content creators. His classification of clickbait into different types is also fascinating. […

Very minor anecdata I would like to share: I have discovered Veritasium like most others, at the time when they weren't "clickbaiting", when their videos actually had the thing that they discussed right there in the title. I learned tons of things. Each new video, and each title, made me eager to discover that thing. But around the time they implemented their "clickbait" titles and thumbnails, it had the opposite eff…

I just want to second this. I experienced a similar trend.
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