• copd@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Objectively wrong.

    YouTube could not be profitable showing one quick ad per video, especially if it’s longer content.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah it’s very clear to me the top creators make far too much money and I agree that business model bears fruit.

        However, the cost of YouTube isn’t the storage, it’s serving views of the videos. That payment scheme you’ve suggested doesn’t scale well with number of views of single videos, that’s why they chose to increase income per view and not per video.

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        this process will cause most smaller creators to just leave the platform, it’s already super difficult to to get established, this would essentially force them to operate at a loss until they can get a foothold which concidering a lot of the time it can take months to years to get established? I can’t see that system being sustainable either.