ChangeTip must die

Re:ChangeTip must die by minimaxir on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @12:29PM (#8763182)

> 2. The stated goal of ChangeTip, as seen in their videos and materials, is to replace advertising and other indirect ways of monetizing content with a way to directly express support for creators.

This isn't feasible if people are giving $0.001 donations frequently and unironically. You'd need thousands of donations to buy a coffee.

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Re:ChangeTip must die by onion2k on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @01:07PM (#8763398)

So long as its all transparent and frictionless that's fine. Imagine if everyone paid $0.0001 to watch a YouTube video... Its cheap, but popular content would earn the creator a very significant sum.. That's the goal.

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Re:ChangeTip must die by beambot on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @01:27PM (#8763492)

For perspective... if we compare to CPM on YouTube views (and account for Google's take), $0.0001 is one to two orders of magnitude less than what content creators earn via forced advertising consumption.

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Re:ChangeTip must die by SyncTheory13 on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @01:30PM (#8763513)

Seeing as the YouTube video with the most views, Gangnam Style, has less than 2.2 billion views as of today... And the top channel has less than 7.1 billion views... I think the tip amount would need to be closer to $0.10/view, which I personally would not pay.

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Re:ChangeTip must die by GFK_of_xmaspast on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @02:31PM (#8763843)

You'd need ten thousand views for a dollar.

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