YouTube faces creator backlash

Re:YouTube faces creator backlash by cortesoft on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:04PM (#20559949)

So 3 years ago, there were 24,000 channels with more than 100k subscribers, and more than 40 channels per day were hitting that mark. Even with over a million subscribers, channels make less than $20,000 a year.

There are simply too many people, and they don't make enough even on the big channels to justify that sort of individual attention. In fact, the only way they can make ANY money is to have so little human attention.

https://socialblade.com/blog/youtube-milestones-four-channel...

https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/even-youtube-stars-with-14-...

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Re:YouTube faces creator backlash by Dylan16807 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @03:24AM (#20562766)

If they hired just ten people to do 15 minute manual reviews for >100k channels, that's 250 reviews a weekday and more than enough to take care of all the biggest problems affecting them.

It gets actually pathetic when it comes to channels with a million subs. Sure, some of them don't make a ton of money, but there's only a few thousand total. One small team could do so much. If a channel makes $20k a year, with a significant fraction going to youtube, why can't it get $50 of someone's time?

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