How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media

Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by sp332 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @01:11PM (#14140651)

But to get money from ads you have to be famous too.

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Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by rhizome on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:13PM (#14141335)

10,000 views means "famous?"

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Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by sp332 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:16PM (#14141361)

10,000 ad views means supporting yourself from ad revenue? I mean if one person buys a t-shirt you've probably made more money, so I don't really see the advantage to ad revenue over merchandising, Patreon etc.

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Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by rhizome on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @06:42PM (#14143690)

No. YouTube announced recently that they aren't paying out on videos with less than 10K views.

http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/6/15209220/youtube-partner-pr...

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Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by corobo on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @08:00AM (#14147088)

Just to clarify this it's 10K views for the channel overall, not individual videos.

If your channel has 10k views total across all videos, you can monetise the next video from viewer 1.

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Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by rhizome on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @12:44PM (#14149158)

Thanks, that was unclear from YT messaging.

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Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by always_good on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @12:27AM (#14145435)

By "make money", they meant "make more than peanuts", not "make their first $0.01".

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