Re:Vice website is shutting down
by ametrau on Thursday February 22, 2024 @09:46PM
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Subscriber counts don't decline, with how old youtube is now, and how little competition there was back in the day, you can have a long running channel (like vice's) with very little active viewership. How are the views on their recent videos?
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Looks like they're regularly 100k-500k views with a few outliers every few months in the millions and a couple of times a year hitting 5M. I have no idea how this translates to income.
just anecdotally, among the youtubers i follow those seems like view counts which would allow a solo creator to quit their day job and hire a part-time editor.
Re:Vice website is shutting down
by kombookcha on Friday February 23, 2024 @01:27AM
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I'm beginning to see the issue. That's 1,5 employees covered by the youtube money, now for the remaining 2998,5...
As someone who has never even tried to monetize youtube, I am shocked that having that sized audience still can't make a go at it as a FT job. Guess I will stick to programming.
Re:Vice website is shutting down
by kombookcha on Friday March 08, 2024 @02:31AM
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I suppose this is why most of the big channels are very upfront about how their bread is buttered by Patreon and merch far more so than youtube adbux.