Except that CCs make almost no money from ads - unless you’re already big and produce lots of clickbait videos.
High quality produced videos are discouraged with these incentives. successful CCs have switched to sponsorships and merchandise and Patreon since a long time because it’s much more stable and sustainable for them. And by the time they can make enough from ads via YouTube they’re big enough to have good sponsorship deals anyways.
Talk about burning goddamn bridges! YouTube is dependent on content creators and yet it wants to fuck their audience.
Creators are probably quite happy with increased ad revenue and OK with losing non-ad watching viewers…
Except that CCs make almost no money from ads - unless you’re already big and produce lots of clickbait videos.
High quality produced videos are discouraged with these incentives. successful CCs have switched to sponsorships and merchandise and Patreon since a long time because it’s much more stable and sustainable for them. And by the time they can make enough from ads via YouTube they’re big enough to have good sponsorship deals anyways.