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Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by bigtimeidiot on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @04:18PM (#14142496)
>ad revenue is the only way to directly capitalize on your popularity among those people.

Are these people clicking ads, though? I doubt it. And if not, you aren't monetizing them directly via that method, either.

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Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by elsonrodriguez on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @05:12PM (#14142979)
They don't have to click to monetize, but yes, some click.

Enough so that you can offset the cost of the hobby in many cases, and make a living in that rarest, most desirable of cases.

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Re:How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media by sfifs on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @10:25AM (#14147899)
Most advertising is cost per impression, not click. Search is pretty much the only major cost per click type of advertising.
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