Are there better paying alternatives?
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Yes and no. They're out there and exist but you hit the treadmill that is customer acquisition. Any additional moneys you make by publishing off YouTube you'll pay to someone else to get a viewership. If you already have a large organic viewership you might be able to make the switch less painful but I doubt you'll be able to start from zero.
You'll probably have to be on YT for exposure and then direct people off the site. Ironically a lot of TikTok-ers are trying to use the same trick to move their followers to YT for better pay.
Wow I'm quite out of the loop here.
TikTok pays money for videos? I thought it was pure "instagram but with music and videos" for kids. Not that I've used instagram either but at least they don't seem to pay people. Or do they? :)
Nah, it's similar to IG in that regard so TikTok-ers go the standard sponsorship route or try to direct people to, say YT, for more consistent revenue.
However, TikTok is has a pretty substantial adult audience. There are quite a few niche communities that have just organically moved to TikTok: cosplay, makeup, and digital art are some obvious ones.
Parent comment was saying that TikTokkers are monetizing by trying to move their fans to their YouTube channel.
Can you explain further? Is this a better paying alternative to Youtube?
But aren't we really talking about Adsense? If we're talking about Adsense, aren't we really talking about the overall capabilities of the system?
Is there any alternatives to Adsense? No, if Adsense isn't working for you, then you're looking for a totally different approach for monetizing your content.
But we still haven't arrived to the fundamental issue, which is that we're in the midst of a global economic meltdown. A lot of Adsense buyers are pulling out and that's driving down the market for ads.
I'm not a marketing guru, but I'm guessing that advertising spend in general is one of the first things to get cut during difficult economic times.
Does Nebula address this? Are they giving away helicopter money? Perhaps the service can open a portal into another dimension where COVID-19 has never happened (or maybe not for a couple of months, so we can get some quick partying in.)
Nebula is a competitor to YouTube that was created by a bunch of YouTubers in the educational video space. It's a paid subscription only model.
I have a subscription but for some reason it doesn't scratch the same itch as YouTube even though it has a lot of the same content that I watch on YouTube. It may be because there isn't much Nebula only content so I might as well just check one website instead of two. I also don't think it has comments. And all round just isn't as slick of an experience as YouTube.
Also by design not just anyone can upload to it and so I belive it will probably be quite limited in its growth.
If it's subscription only, then it's not a better paying alternative. It's a different monetization method altogether. Thanks for the clarification on how the service works. That's interesting, I'll check it out.
This feels like you may get a mighty big slice of a microscopic pie.
No different then existing artist platform economics (although Nebula is geared towards content creators, not pushing ads such that Youtube is).
If you're expecting more, build your own brand and video hosting platform, and develop whatever individual brand value you can from your audience. Otherwise, them the breaks of more content available than one can consume in a lifetime (see: abysmal Spotify artist revenue). IMHO, content creator driven platforms at least give you a chance to extract more value than you could from Youtube (due to creator<->YouTube/Google power dynamics).
Some channels get more views in a day on a single video than these platforms get visitors in a week.
No, there is currently no similar alternative that pays anything in the realm of YouTube ad rev.