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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by npongratz on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @10:58AM (#20810247)
> Also as a programmer i'm not sure how i'd go about doing a live show :-P

I see live coding happening all over Youtube and Twitch.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by dragandj on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:48AM (#20810928)
How many tickets have you bought for live coding shows?
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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by npongratz on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:05PM (#20811993)
It's not "tickets," but https://handmadehero.org/watch is live-streamed coding, funded through https://handmadehero.org/fund. I've found it educational and entertaining, and is an example of a programmer doing a "live show."
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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @03:34PM (#20813609)
Quite a few if you include such content being bundled together with other content into a conference.
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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by cameronbrown on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:01PM (#20811093)
Huh? Tickets are an outdated concept on internet platforms. Space is unlimited and advertising can sustain a channel just fine.

Edit: Medium sized channel.

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by jfim on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:28PM (#20811475)
According to Quora [0], ad revenue from YouTube is about $1 per thousand views. I doubt that programming live streaming is mainstream enough to be sustainable from ads alone.

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-much-does-YouTube-pay-per-1000-vie...

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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by cameronbrown on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:34PM (#20811550)
These metrics are totally inaccurate because different verticals pay different CPMs. Some can be much higher, but I've no idea how programming topics fares.
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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by jfim on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:37PM (#20811598)
Even if it's 10x that, and one has 10k viewers, $100 is about one or two hours of work at a FAANG. And there's no health care coverage or free lunch for streamers.
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Re:Just Enough Piracy Can Be a Good Thing by cameronbrown on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:49PM (#20811757)
Bear in mind that most viewers will see multiple ads during the stream, so 10k viewers could be more like 30k impressions.

Well I wasn't necessarily thinking this was being compared to a full time job, just that a channel could be self supporting, but there are ways to get close:

A strong supplement to ads is direct donations/subscriptions. If you've ever seen a YouTube/Twitch chat, people send a LOT of money that way and get their message highlighted/usually responded to for their money. It's not uncommon to see mid-tier YouTubers make hundreds in one stream but its probably the exception and not the rule.

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