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Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by Dylan16807 »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #399
Dylan16807 wrote: post #395

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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.

If an accusation of sharecropping is legitimate, I think it's fair for the government to apply regulation and not just try to compete.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by esskay »

kccqzy wrote: post #390
esskay wrote: post #200

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It's only partially based on history these days. The YouTube subreddit is ram packed with posts about the issue, it looks like 50% of your recommendations are relevent to you, the other half is randomly generated with seemingly nothing in place to at least try and match them up to your known interests. It started approx 2 years ago and has gradually gotten worse to the point where some users see no recommendations re…

Sounds like it's working as intended. They don't want any more echo chambers.

Sure, if the aim is to dive you away from YouTube because you can't find relevent content to watch then they're doing a stellar job.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by PhilosAccnting »

warent wrote: post #5

The transparency of this is really amazing; big respect. It's interesting to think that this information was quietly posted to their low-traffic blog with little notice, meanwhile the information contained is actually extremely valuable (and itself would have probably made a highly valuable youtube video itself with 10s of millions of views). I wonder how much other information exists on the web that is extremely val…

I like to think that most of the valuable information is generally unnoticed. Most of the things I make are very valuable to the people who want it, but any one of those things are pretty useless to the majority of people who would find it.

A huge part of the phenomenon comes through how fashions form. Hype collects around emotionally-charged things. By their very nature, their spectacle is compromising some of the sincerity and value to maximize reach. The spotlight is power, and power corrupts.

HN is a perfect example of this: looks like a chat forum from 1998, but is very much current and edgy with the cool kids.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by all2 »

jongjong wrote: post #77

Does anyone know any good tricks to bypass visibility filtering to earn that kind of money? When I start to see traction (exponential) on most platforms, I get VFed before I hit 1000. Do I need to go as far as dedicated computer and register new account with fake ID/SIM card or is VPN enough?

I'd like to hear more about this. What is "VFed"? How many platforms/accounts have you tried? What does 'traction' look like in terms of raw numbers?

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by chillfox »

grecy wrote: post #400
chillfox wrote: post #362

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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?

Sure, https://morningfa.me/ (analytics tool) and https://incomeschool.com/project24/ (course) are both products that focus heavily on research based recommendations. Their YouTube channels (https://www.youtube.com/@Morningfame and https://www.youtube.com/@ChannelMakers) have a lot of good information as well.

They both have private communities where people freely share a lot of good info (especially Project24).

There are many others that I have heard good things about but have not checked out myself.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by runeks »

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…

Sad? How is it sad that I don't earn $600k when I put up a video on YouTube of a bird on my balcony?

The 99.9% don't earn as much because their content isn't as highly viewed. That appears completely fair to me.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by Ndymium »

tpmx wrote: post #366
Ndymium wrote: post #197

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In the case of donations, soliciting donations in any way is illegal in Finland for private persons and companies. That also makes things like YouTube's sponsor button, GitHub Sponsors, etc. nonstarters.

It's illegal without a permit or a written notification to a police department, it seems: https://poliisi.fi/en/money-collections

The permit cannot be obtained for private persons or companies at all, only for non-profit associations. The "small-scale money collection" that can be done with a written notification is possible for private persons, but also has limits:

* Max 10,000 € per round

* Max 3 months per round

* Max 2 rounds per year

* Needs a group of at least 3 persons to organise

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by coldtea »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #399
Dylan16807 wrote: post #395

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So, is your arguent that instead of inconveniencing those businesses, countries should just create competiting public services?

They can always do that too, but I'm also full for them inconveniencing those businesses.

Businesses should be whiped and forced to play responsibly in society. They can innovate on tech and features, they don't have to innovate on milking people and erroding working rights.

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by FanaHOVA »

Aeolun wrote: post #151
ProAm wrote: post #59

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> I wonder how much other information exists on the web that is extremely valuable yet unnoticed This is pretty common knowledge for monetized or high viewership (sponsored/paid for outside of Google) channels.

It may be common knowledge for people that already have a channel, but I’ve never seen anyone give exact revenue numbers to outsiders before.

A Magic content producer did one a while ago. The YT vs Twitch numbers comparison was incredible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DtTwGFwcQs

Re: My Youtube earnings

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Post by swyx »

ZhadruOmjar wrote: post #292
swyx wrote: post #130

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i had no idea that canva did video as well as images. would you call it having all the basics or are there noticeable features missing compared to say Screenflow?

I’ve never used screenflow so I can’t talk about that but in terms of features Canva has everything I want as a very amateur creator. The elements, animations and transitions are all easy to use and work really well out of the box. The preset elements and designs can help speed up videos too since you don’t need to find stock footage or gifs elsewhere, just search in Canva.

thats actually awesome. ill have to give it a shot.
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