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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by acdha »

makeitdouble wrote: post #343
acdha wrote: post #43

I wonder how often “middle-aged males” means an adult LEGO fan, of whom there certainly are many, versus a parent letting their kid watch YouTube. My son has notably shifted my recommendations towards LEGO and/or trains.

This channel in particular is less about Lego than mechanics and experiments, so adults have plenty to enjoy from the videos. There’s a video about building a quadcopter for instance, and bricks are used for the frame but he’s also be soldering to have what he needs on the chip. Same for the submarine ones, where the radio control will have nothing to do with Lego. And you’ll see magnets, metal axles, non Lego contro…

Yes - my son and I both enjoy that one. Some of the other speed builds are more his taste than mine.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by coldtea »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #356
coldtea wrote: post #235

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And any sharecropper was welcome to buy their own land, spin up their own castle, fund their own mercenary army, and make their own feudal kingdom! Sharecroppers weren't slaves either. But that's a pretty low bar (and "build your own YouTube" a pretty high bar).

I disagree that build your own YouTube is a “high” bar, outside of money. There are and were multitudes of video hosting and serving websites. It is just ridiculously expensive. Castles, mercenary armies, and conquering land are comparable much, much more difficult.

>I disagree that build your own YouTube is a “high” bar, outside of money. (...) It is just ridiculously expensive.

I'm not sure what you mean. That it's not rocket science? Well, yes, it isn't. It's not the technology: money (and to a second extend, entrenchment and network effects, and ties with Android, and many other non-tech things) IS of course the huge, sky-high, bar, to building an alternative YouTube.

>Castles, mercenary armies, and conquering land are comparable much, much more difficult.*

Well, it was quite a lot of mobility in the feudal ranks. Any competent mercenary could rise to be a higher ranking soldier, and any compenent and cunning higher ranking soldier could, and often did, take on some existing feudal lords, and get their own smaller or bigger fiefdom. After some point, even succesful merchants could get their own armies and castles and be feudal "nobility". Tons of stories from the feudal times (that was what all of cross-feudal fighting was about), and thousands of castles and fiefdoms - and that's just in Europe.

Whereas Youtube? That's one service of its size/scale in the world, covering multiple billions of people.

That would be more like trying to get something competitive not to a feudal lord (which were a dime a dozen), but to the whole of an empire.

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Post by cwkoss »

tkgally wrote: post #82

Just a personal note of praise for YouTube itself. I’ve watched videos on YouTube since it began, but it’s only in the past few years that I’ve come to appreciate what a great medium it has become. By allowing people to share content on all sorts of niche subjects and potentially make money at it, YouTube has become a fantastic resource for both education and entertainment. For someone like me who grew up with access…

I wouldn't give Google too much credit here. Almost all of my love for Youtube is based on the creators which are on the platform. The platform itself is quite user-hostile, has bad UX, gives poor recommendations, and has too many overly obtrusive repetitive poorly-targeted advertisements. To me, Google is fully responsible for all of the bad, but can claim little of the good.

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Post by kccqzy »

pnathan wrote: post #379
swyx wrote: post #131

> There are many, many creators who release Lego videos continuously and have no subs and get no views. Too many. Hundreds, maybe thousands of such creators. It is kind of heartbreaking to see people put so much time and effort for (supposedly) nothing. this is the saddest part. he is in the top 0.1% of his genre and making $90 an hour, but 99.9% of them make nothing. i dont know what drives people to want to make vi…

Some people love video the medium. I tried doing a video of myself talking off the cuff on a topic. Watching myself, it was painful. I obviously needed to write myself a script, do editing, etc. I would rather just write the text, and skip the video bit. :)

You basically can't expect to film yourself talking and put it on YouTube and expect to get lots of views. OP spent 100 hours making each video that's several minutes long.

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Post by Dylan16807 »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #358
Dylan16807 wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't buying your own farm easier then spinning up your own data center? I really don't understand the point you're trying to make.

For an individual, yes. For a country? It is just a matter of the country not wanting to spend the money to buy servers, bandwidth, and labor to moderate.

Why are countries coming up now? I thought you were arguing against the sharecropping analogy, and the people that do sharecropping are all low-power individuals.

"Someone rich could make a new ecosystem" is unrelated to whether the current ecosystem resembles sharecropping.

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Post by Scoundreller »

makeitdouble wrote: post #220
VBprogrammer wrote: post #198

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I imagine it's more to do with reducing the administrative burden of processing payments for $3 to thousands of people who have one vaguely useful video.

If I'm not mistaken they set a minimum payment amount either way to avoid that issue.

100%. Min payment is something like $100.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by swyx »

kccqzy wrote: post #394
pnathan wrote: post #379

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some people love video the medium. I tried doing a video of myself talking off the cuff on a topic. Watching myself, it was painful. I obviously needed to write myself a script, do editing, etc. I would rather just write the text, and skip the video bit. :)

You basically can't expect to film yourself talking and put it on YouTube and expect to get lots of views. OP spent 100 hours making each video that's several minutes long.

exactly. and for every one of him there's a hundred that put in the same effort and failed

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by squintychino »

_tom_ wrote: post #173
system2 wrote: post #42

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Another example is probably the Primitive Technology channel. Last week I was reading his interview and he mentions $1M savings from his channel.

It would also be interesting to see what his per hour is, after expenses. I'm pretty sure those videos take a LONG time to make.

Probably close to 100%. He builds things from nature. And the only editing is cutting video. There's no audio mixing.

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Post by lotsofpulp »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #395
lotsofpulp wrote: post #358

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For an individual, yes. For a country? It is just a matter of the country not wanting to spend the money to buy servers, bandwidth, and labor to moderate.

Why are countries coming up now? I thought you were arguing against the sharecropping analogy, and the people that do sharecropping are all low-power individuals. "Someone rich could make a new ecosystem" is unrelated to whether the current ecosystem resembles sharecropping.

Because coldtea’s response involved using the power of a country’s legal system to force a business to share its revenue.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by grecy »

chillfox wrote: post #362
grecy wrote: post #333

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Do you have links to the communities you mention? Thanks

They are all private forums/Facebook groups for various YouTube analytics tools or production/business courses. So you would have to spend money to get access to them.

Thanks. Do you have any recommendations on ones that have been worth it?
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