Waaaay less money to be made there. Not saying he’s exclusively doing this for the money like the other reply, but we’re not talking about some solo guy making videos in his free time for fun. The man is running a business, needs money to make this videos happen, and to my knowledge this is his job.
Because they do actually do it for the money. It’s a job, and if they put the same content on a non monetized platform, they would drive they’re own viewers away from their own monetized platform = less money.
If he reduces views on YT, the algo will recommend him less. His internal sponsors won’t pay more for the non YT content so he’ll just be gutting his own traffic if it takes off. Assuming he has disks around with all his finished content on it, he could stand it up later if he wanted, but it’s not like Peertube can host an unlimited amount of video for free. Someone is paying for those disks and for the transfer of those bits.
Ideally, he’d stand up his own PT and we’d share in watching his stuff and reduce costs Peer style. But he’s still going to be out a serious payment stream and the PT network can’t just perpetually bare the cost of his storage.
It’s like if LMG wanted to host their back catalog, we’d need peer tube hosts with a PB of storage sitting around ready to take his catalog.
Initial setup is the only real time investment. Once you have the final edited video exported, uploading it to multiple platforms doesn’t take much more time. It does take away ad impressions from YouTube, though.
That’s definitely an option. It would be a good idea for him to do that, I think. But my main point is that losing YouTube would be devastating for GN regardless of whether or not they’re on peertube, and moving entirely to peertube isn’t really feasible for them
$$$ that’s why. YouTube gives the greatest return. If they post to multiple platforms, not only is it more work, but they then also subtract from the number of views they get on YouTube. It’s all about the $$$.
In their documentary GamersNexus stated that they would air it without advertisements if a certain treshold of funding was reached. I imagine Patreon, their store and other sources make GamersNexus more money than Youtube advertisement. And it is certainly not their only source.
I’m still not sure which side of that whole thing i’m on. I know he’s less annoying than Linus. But even Billit labs seems to have less hate for LMG than he does :)
That would defeat the entire purpose of sensationalist headlines and blowing up a Google search as a “deep investigation” which is this channel’s main source of attention.
They want the clicks on YouTube. Moving to PeerTube would be great if they just wanted the information to be out there, but that’s not their primary concern.
Undeniably he gets more clicks for this. However, would you deny somebody their own soapbox when they’re getting fucked by the system? He is using his leverage to call out the bullshit DMCA system that YouTube has in place which allows anybody to fuck with anybody. And in this case he’s bringing to light a giant Goliath of a company Bloomberg for fucking with his few person team, and for YouTube for making it the default.
Their bread and butter is hardware reviews and weekly news. No, they’re not a drama channel. Just because that’s the only time you, personally, hear about them doesn’t mean the rest of us work that way.
Telling Linus to fuck off is a good idea regardless of views.
I don’t have an interest in being liked by Steve. I do have an interest in journalism outlets who are willing to say that a $4T market cap company is full of shit.
He should be on PeerTube, anyways.
Waaaay less money to be made there. Not saying he’s exclusively doing this for the money like the other reply, but we’re not talking about some solo guy making videos in his free time for fun. The man is running a business, needs money to make this videos happen, and to my knowledge this is his job.
Can someone explain me why creators cant do both? Reupload a mirror on peertube.
Its in their interest to have a solid backup when youtube inevitably dies.
Because they do actually do it for the money. It’s a job, and if they put the same content on a non monetized platform, they would drive they’re own viewers away from their own monetized platform = less money.
It’d be dangerous to his revenue stream.
If he reduces views on YT, the algo will recommend him less. His internal sponsors won’t pay more for the non YT content so he’ll just be gutting his own traffic if it takes off. Assuming he has disks around with all his finished content on it, he could stand it up later if he wanted, but it’s not like Peertube can host an unlimited amount of video for free. Someone is paying for those disks and for the transfer of those bits.
Ideally, he’d stand up his own PT and we’d share in watching his stuff and reduce costs Peer style. But he’s still going to be out a serious payment stream and the PT network can’t just perpetually bare the cost of his storage.
It’s like if LMG wanted to host their back catalog, we’d need peer tube hosts with a PB of storage sitting around ready to take his catalog.
Linus has nowhere near a PB worth of content, between all of his channels.
assuming they didn’t keep 8K, Just the raw 4k footage from just the wan show for one year would be ~150tb
To further clarify, his big PB-scale servers are for hosting their archive of raw footage.
They can, Gardiner Bryant does, and Louis Rossmann uploads to Odyssee. Afaik, there’s nothing preventing a creator from doing that aside from time.
Initial setup is the only real time investment. Once you have the final edited video exported, uploading it to multiple platforms doesn’t take much more time. It does take away ad impressions from YouTube, though.
this is speculation, but it’s possible that youtube don’t like it when large mainstream creators have backup platforms and will start cracking down.
LOTS of big creators post their videos multiple places.
That’s definitely an option. It would be a good idea for him to do that, I think. But my main point is that losing YouTube would be devastating for GN regardless of whether or not they’re on peertube, and moving entirely to peertube isn’t really feasible for them
I do not understand why creators feel the need to be exclusively on one platform. Simply crosspost the videos.
$$$ that’s why. YouTube gives the greatest return. If they post to multiple platforms, not only is it more work, but they then also subtract from the number of views they get on YouTube. It’s all about the $$$.
In their documentary GamersNexus stated that they would air it without advertisements if a certain treshold of funding was reached. I imagine Patreon, their store and other sources make GamersNexus more money than Youtube advertisement. And it is certainly not their only source.
If those other sources make more money and get more viewers, why did it start on YouTube?
That is where the majority of the audience is.
Nah. He’d be better off on floatplane. I wonder why he isn’t… 🤔
LOL, the world may never know.
I’m still not sure which side of that whole thing i’m on. I know he’s less annoying than Linus. But even Billit labs seems to have less hate for LMG than he does :)
That would defeat the entire purpose of sensationalist headlines and blowing up a Google search as a “deep investigation” which is this channel’s main source of attention.
They want the clicks on YouTube. Moving to PeerTube would be great if they just wanted the information to be out there, but that’s not their primary concern.
Undeniably he gets more clicks for this. However, would you deny somebody their own soapbox when they’re getting fucked by the system? He is using his leverage to call out the bullshit DMCA system that YouTube has in place which allows anybody to fuck with anybody. And in this case he’s bringing to light a giant Goliath of a company Bloomberg for fucking with his few person team, and for YouTube for making it the default.
Source of attention? By flying to another country and getting access to areas people never even knew? Lol wtf are you on about?
Lemmy simps really hard for gamers nexus, even though they’re just a drama channel at this point.
Their bread and butter is hardware reviews and weekly news. No, they’re not a drama channel. Just because that’s the only time you, personally, hear about them doesn’t mean the rest of us work that way.
Telling Linus to fuck off is a good idea regardless of views.
Simp spotted. Tech drama Jesus isn’t gonna like you more for defending him, he doesn’t even care that you exist.
I don’t have an interest in being liked by Steve. I do have an interest in journalism outlets who are willing to say that a $4T market cap company is full of shit.
I’m willing to say that too, but you have to admit that it’s a lot easier to say such things on a Youtube video that gets you 900k views in a day.
Also: careful to censor those middle fingers so you don’t get … gasp… demonetized