• copd@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Objectively wrong.

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

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      7 months ago

      Im of the firm belief that youtube should make creators pay for storage of their videos.

      Free teir for short videos, no monetization, YT places ads. Paid teir for longer form videos and monetization. This would ensure that long form videos should ideally be profitable for creators, or companies uploading their training videos etc pay a nominal fee for their storage.

      This is the fairest way to keep youtube in the green.

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        7 months 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.