Its very true that people have a real want and need to be rewarded for their hard work. Looking at the comparisons between YouTube and Google+ just further compounds the results that can be expected from a platform that rewards its users (YouTube) vs. the platform that doesn't (Google+). As noted in the article, the lack of incentive often leads to a lack of interest, and this is why social platforms fail.
At the end of the day, people have bills to pay, and the average person cannot afford to work for free. Likewise, while the average social user is a passive one, someone still has to create the content the public consumes on social media, and others have to work to manage those platforms. In the case of Google+, I actually fit both roles, though I'm never rewarded for it, and there's no incentive given.
As for YouTube, the incentive to invest time and energy there has somewhat evaporated over time. Its really no longer possible to make a living there with ad revenue alone. It definitely puts creators in a tough spot, how do we sustain ourselves? We recently implemented a Patreon account for Gamers Bay, but Patreon itself is hardly reliable, and there's no guarantees that a crowdfunded approach to monetizing will work. In fact, for most it does it.
As for the risk of content being stolen, we have taken measures to help protect our content, including the use of Gamers Bay's logos in the videos we produce. In the case of the article that was stolen, that was actually from a different brand I operate, Strategic Social Networking. They scraped the article off of Medium and republished it here on Steemit. In that case, we're submitting a DMCA take down notice, and wholeheartedly plan to take aggressive legal action against those who attempt to undermine our hard work.
Yeh you pretty much summed it up well I can relate to the whole (youtube) vs (google+) thing well back before this whole partnership mess came about I had barely used google+ at all and invested most of my time into youtube. The want of a reward in the end is really there. And yeah I imagine Patreon is very hard to get moving in fact I am not even sure how some people make their patreons work out well for them because some get a good amount flowing through.
And that is good you guys are putting a ''Gamers Bay'' logo into any videos you do so that way no one takes them cause you never know I wish you luck with getting that republished article taken down. Also dunno if you know but i wanna give you a hand for ideas of extra ways to get $ coming to any and all you guys platforms you ever thought of opening a merch shop? Where you place any designs onto either shirts or various other items?
I know of 3 such places right now Spreadshirt, Zazzle and Threadless. of the 3 of them from the knowledge I gathered Threadless would be best bet then 2nd Spreadshirt and lastly Zazzle. It would be neat seeing Gamers Bay themed stuff all about I think you guys could possibly pull it off and you have the advantage of having many of you able to do so since Gamers Bay is a huge group of everyone working together.
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We thought about using Spreadshirt for merchandise, but I haven't heard of Threadless, that's a new one to me. Merchandising can really help too I think. What I like about such services is that you don't have to handle any packing or shipping, and the produce the products ordered on the fly! It really keeps the process simple.
As for Patreon, yeah, I have my doubts, but we're going to see what happens I guess. We do have over 500 videos, so we've started adding the patreon links to cards and end screens. Luckily we get out patreon links cut off like so many others have. Google no longer allows channels who weren't previously monetized to use them, which I think is scandalous. First Google cuts off everyone's ad revenues, then tells them they can't use crowdfunding, not right.
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Yeah that is what I like about those sites too all you have to do is place the custom design and just pretty much make sure the image is correct on it and such so it is set up good that is all. No expense stress on you and your custom item will always be there so is always a source of potential income!
I am thinking of joining threadless soon I do have a Zazzle shop open but Zazzle isn
t so good and so far I have next to no views on my stuff or purchases but is sorta my fault too for my lack of actually actively promoting my store. Lets just say I bit off more than I could chew right now and didn`t fully understand what needs to go into things like this ya really gotta promote,promote and that is something I am not so good at yet.Ah and that is good you know I never really bothered with end screen on youtube never used them are they similar to how outros of some videos are used? sounds like it since you can add links and such to videos. too bad though like you said google is taking away end screens and cards from people who already had them like us I mean wtf? is like adding salt to the wounds bad enough they removing all monetizing and now on top of that all the tools we could use to help with channel growth. It
s almost as if they are sending the message we dont want nor care about smaller channels anymore and all of us can go and burn for all they care.Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
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You should use ends screens and cards in as many videos as possible to promote your other videos. End screens have really proven themselves worthy for us. They can keep viewers on your channel longer, and they're great for promoting things like Patreon as well.
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Hm I see they are more useful than I thought hmm I should atleast test them out before google takes them away from us there is still a bit of time so I better use it.
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I don't think they're going to take them away. You can still use end screens even after monetization ends. It turns out it was just the ability to link to external sites they were doing away with. And even that rule seems to only apply to channels who weren't previously monetized, so you should be good.
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Well that is good news to hear. End screens have been on my mind a bunch lately I am gonna figure out how I wanna use them and start putting them at the end of my videos to start testing them.
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