Hi guys!
So today there was a really interesting conversation being discussed in the Discord about the future of Dtube/Steemit and whether or not ads should be a thing.
Some believed it to be against the very core of Steem, some thought we could give it a try, some thought it a necessary evil. I am with the latter.
I have made and been involved in quite a few productions. They are costly. I go through a rough breakdown of the last major video I made, and how much it cost.
This was the production:
It was a comedic spin-off of Hamilton: An American Musical.
It seemed to be a hit with the fanbase. Yet, even though it has accumulated nearly 150k views, and most of those were an average of a 17-minute view time (which by the way is like an eternity for YouTube) it would have never made anything on upvotes alone, if it were to be released on a platform where you are compensated from upvotes. With just 8,400 upvotes, at one cent each, we would have made a little more than $80 on a production that took a month and a half to produce and cost roughly a $2500 investment.
And this was an amateur production guys.
It was entertaining, but still very amateurish. It would have cost an additional 5k at least to bring the quality up.
Dtube wants and needs high quality production content, and it's possible, but not without outside help. We don't have to be bombarded by ads, or have a centralized takeover, there are many options that can be implemented.
Anyway, I hope this gives you some food for thought! This platform can definitely go places, but we have to be willing to look at all of our options in order to expand!
Catch ya later!
xx~Beth
The pic is a still of one of my costumes from our production. They were pretty cool!!!!
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I am with you. I think the later is where it will eventually head.
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Stretch the payout window to indefinite and charge 0.01 SBD, or what ever reasonable amount, to watch the video. Pay per view. Problem solved and no commercials other than making a trailer to lure customers in to watching your video. Can this be done? I don't see why not.
As soon as you allow ads, you invite the advertisers to tell you what is acceptable and we already have YT as a good example of how that works.
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The problem though, is maybe not everyone who will watch a video wants to join Steemit/Dtube. With YouTube, anyone can watch those videos and be compensated, but the people watching don't have to join YouTube to make the creators money.
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In the future, everyone will be on web 3.0 which will have smart contracts embedded that will link into one's own business tokens that can be atomic swapped to any other cryptocurrency. This means that everyone will have a vote without joining anything. AD's are a dying model in this world. It represents an inadequate thinking out and balancing of how things will work. In the future this will not be necessary because the false scarcity model will be broken once the system of financial exclusion falls.
When I was young, the KYC model wasn't fully implemented yet and prosperity was happening everywhere (not just America) and advertising was very unsophisticated. Look at old videos around the 60's in Iran for example. We tend to think that they were primitive and nothing excelled the USA, but that is false. All this decline is due to the banking elites forcing the model of fake scarcity upon us.
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It is costly!
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Why ads? I mean this is the cryptospace...why not something like Oyster Pearl?
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You had some chatty birds in the background. I'm not complaining. I think sponsorship is probably a good way to go. Thank you for sharing the behind-the-scenes on your production for Pegged. I'm the kind of nerd who turns the director's commentary on my DVDs how to learn all the behind-the-scenes stuff, so I just got that from this video. Thank you.
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