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Re:YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its... by chongli on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:00PM (#10429053)
Option 7: Full-time Youtube authors with decent-sized subscriber bases should switch to Patreon for their income. The CPM for Youtube ads is not great and tons of Youtube viewers use ad blockers anyway.
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Re:YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its... by jameshart on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @10:02PM (#10430010)
Option 7a, Google launch a patreon-equivalent system for youtube authors to use, and bootstraps a patronage economy.
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Re:YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its... by zaroth on Thursday October 22, 2015 @02:30AM (#10430707)
Which is basically what Red should/could be.
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