We all know what's going on with YouTube, but should you abandon it?
I give many reasons why I think the way that I do in this video, and hope that it may inform or at least help some of you in making the tough decision.
I wonder how they will change around Net Neutrality actually. I'm honestly hoping the current CEO gets fired and they put someone who knows what the hell they are doing in charge.
I left youtube because of their bias.Many great channels are being F'd with, demonetized, subscribers disappearance, alerts not going through, ect. Why would anyone continue funding youtube when they do that unfair crap to people?
I think YouTube's biggest advantage is their numbers. 1 Billion people is a huge audience to get into. Once a competitor takes off, the game will change.
I agree, its best to diversify your audiences and keep youtube channels open, even though the platform is falling apart. I spent the last 5 years building media brands on Google+, amassing well over a half million community members and followers across all my media there. After that 5 years of experience, I'm honestly fed up with Google's crap. They put up so much red tape to actually monetize on anything its unreal! And they make so many stupid decisions, some of which killed off several of my brands when they did their first redesign of Google+.
After spending 5 years growing on G+, this past year we decided to create youtube channels to correspond with the G+ brands in hopes of drawing revenue. Unfortunately, every time I turn around, Google is changing the rules again, and now I have worked for years for virtually nothing as a result.
We first tried to monetize through web publishing, and while we managed to sustain significant amounts of traffic as early as 2013, the ad revenue for article based media is junk. 100,000 views on my blog earned me dinner if I was really lucky, just not worth it.
While I'm no longer placing any bets on Google for anything, I also don't see any reason to destroy everything I created. Just the other day, one of my gaming brand's moderators made a video where he stated quote, "I Don't see a future in YouTube." Which I sadly agreed with. We talked about it, and we've decided to try and salvage what we built, as letting it go would mean throwing away tens of thousands of hours of hard work. But we also know what to expect. We're still going to try and monetize several channels on Youtube, but we're no longer putting all our eggs in one basket, and are willing try new avenues to sustain our media on the web.
Here its been 5 years, and Google has never once found or offered a way to monetize on G+, and now they're killing off 90% of creators on Youtube as well. At the end of the day, I have bills to pay, and Google just plays too many games, I'm ready to move on in terms of making a living, but Im also going to try and sustain what I built with Google.
I think there are a lot of people who feel the same way, both who have a few hours or tens of thousands of hours into their work. Google by itself tries to sell to people that they can make livings off of just being a part of the Google community, and that's not true. Now they are messing with YouTube too much, and are really ruining it for everyone.
Yeah, the Google dream is truly a gimmick! I just wrote my first blog post here ever explaining the last 5 years of dealing with a tech giant that works only to serve itself. YouTube has honestly been dying for years anyway. Their ad revenue has been falling off a cliff for 5 years now, and you have YouTubers with a million subs who're homeless in the street. I think that says something.
The whole reason they're killing off 90% of creators is because the majority of top creators are no longer earning a living. Te YouTube platform's operating costs are also billions more than the revenue that it brings in, which Google admits themselves. Its a lost cause, and we can all thanks Google's poor leadership for the outcome.
YouTube is done. Between its censorship and changes to channel monetisation and if the net neutrality changes stick. Bye bye YouTube
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I wonder how they will change around Net Neutrality actually. I'm honestly hoping the current CEO gets fired and they put someone who knows what the hell they are doing in charge.
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I left youtube because of their bias.Many great channels are being F'd with, demonetized, subscribers disappearance, alerts not going through, ect. Why would anyone continue funding youtube when they do that unfair crap to people?
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I think YouTube's biggest advantage is their numbers. 1 Billion people is a huge audience to get into. Once a competitor takes off, the game will change.
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I agree, its best to diversify your audiences and keep youtube channels open, even though the platform is falling apart. I spent the last 5 years building media brands on Google+, amassing well over a half million community members and followers across all my media there. After that 5 years of experience, I'm honestly fed up with Google's crap. They put up so much red tape to actually monetize on anything its unreal! And they make so many stupid decisions, some of which killed off several of my brands when they did their first redesign of Google+.
After spending 5 years growing on G+, this past year we decided to create youtube channels to correspond with the G+ brands in hopes of drawing revenue. Unfortunately, every time I turn around, Google is changing the rules again, and now I have worked for years for virtually nothing as a result.
We first tried to monetize through web publishing, and while we managed to sustain significant amounts of traffic as early as 2013, the ad revenue for article based media is junk. 100,000 views on my blog earned me dinner if I was really lucky, just not worth it.
While I'm no longer placing any bets on Google for anything, I also don't see any reason to destroy everything I created. Just the other day, one of my gaming brand's moderators made a video where he stated quote, "I Don't see a future in YouTube." Which I sadly agreed with. We talked about it, and we've decided to try and salvage what we built, as letting it go would mean throwing away tens of thousands of hours of hard work. But we also know what to expect. We're still going to try and monetize several channels on Youtube, but we're no longer putting all our eggs in one basket, and are willing try new avenues to sustain our media on the web.
Here its been 5 years, and Google has never once found or offered a way to monetize on G+, and now they're killing off 90% of creators on Youtube as well. At the end of the day, I have bills to pay, and Google just plays too many games, I'm ready to move on in terms of making a living, but Im also going to try and sustain what I built with Google.
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I think there are a lot of people who feel the same way, both who have a few hours or tens of thousands of hours into their work. Google by itself tries to sell to people that they can make livings off of just being a part of the Google community, and that's not true. Now they are messing with YouTube too much, and are really ruining it for everyone.
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Yeah, the Google dream is truly a gimmick! I just wrote my first blog post here ever explaining the last 5 years of dealing with a tech giant that works only to serve itself. YouTube has honestly been dying for years anyway. Their ad revenue has been falling off a cliff for 5 years now, and you have YouTubers with a million subs who're homeless in the street. I think that says something.
The whole reason they're killing off 90% of creators is because the majority of top creators are no longer earning a living. Te YouTube platform's operating costs are also billions more than the revenue that it brings in, which Google admits themselves. Its a lost cause, and we can all thanks Google's poor leadership for the outcome.
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