Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing

Re:Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing by notahacker on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:29PM (#20697800)

I'm not sure the reduced engagement would move the needle that much. I suspect many of the most loyal fans would reduce their (current and future) engagement with the striking YouTubers' channels rather than YouTube as a whole.

Since the purpose of a strike is fundamentally to prove the employer needs its employees [nearly] as much as the employees need their salary, a strike which proves the opposite would be really self-defeating...

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Re:Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing by ebiester on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:44PM (#20697982)

However, viewers don't identify themselves with YouTube. If five channels I want to watch are off to another platform, I'll spend a half hour over there a week to watch them. It doesn't hurt me. Maybe I will still go to YouTube for other content.

The brand loyalty isn't there. It isn't that YouTube has anything magic other than quantity.

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Re:Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing by bluedino on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @01:58PM (#20698149)

If that platform doesn't have an app on my TV it's going to hurt a little bit

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