With all these tools available today, these corporations should be kissing the butts of the content creators, not trying to piss them off by taking more of their pie.
I would think a lot of full-time content creators would be pissed by not having ads.
One I follow recently disabled viewing twitch VODs (stream recordings) without a subscription.
The reason is that even though twitch has ads on streams, it doesnt on VODs. They instead record the streams manually and upload them to youtube.
And if you know them, you cant say they are greedy (at least about this one, I dont know generally).
They hold non-english streams with sub 500 viewers, so of course they reach a smaller audience, and they are doing it full time, in a country that was hit very hard in inflation, and which also killed the tax form which was the go-to solution for anyone self-employed, resulting in their income taxes multiplying by ~3-4 times, and by looking at the numbers, they still dont have a dream paycheck, or anywhere near to it. If you watch the streams (and know the language, haha), you know they are not there to get rich, but to build a community, which they involve a lot in behind-the-scenes and life related things.
I have no idea what are the circumstances with twitch streamers in other countries with a better economy, but I can see that for instance this one needs that money if they want to continue.
Self-hosting video sounds awesome, but it seems challenging if it were ever going to scale. Mastodon and Lemmy instances are already struggling hosting a social media platform. Streaming video sounds 1000x more difficult.
It eats up space and bandwidth. I imagine it could turn into a different model. Either the ads are directly tied to the streamer, or subscribe-to-watch.
Using something like BitTorrent could help mitigate some of the bandwidth costs, though.
At this point let’s start federating and hosting everything ourselves, lol
https://owncast.online/ or [email protected] does this ;) Peertube even has users help with bandwidth for livestreams.
That’s awesome!
With all these tools available today, these corporations should be kissing the butts of the content creators, not trying to piss them off by taking more of their pie.
I would think a lot of full-time content creators would be pissed by not having ads.
One I follow recently disabled viewing twitch VODs (stream recordings) without a subscription. The reason is that even though twitch has ads on streams, it doesnt on VODs. They instead record the streams manually and upload them to youtube.
And if you know them, you cant say they are greedy (at least about this one, I dont know generally). They hold non-english streams with sub 500 viewers, so of course they reach a smaller audience, and they are doing it full time, in a country that was hit very hard in inflation, and which also killed the tax form which was the go-to solution for anyone self-employed, resulting in their income taxes multiplying by ~3-4 times, and by looking at the numbers, they still dont have a dream paycheck, or anywhere near to it. If you watch the streams (and know the language, haha), you know they are not there to get rich, but to build a community, which they involve a lot in behind-the-scenes and life related things.
I have no idea what are the circumstances with twitch streamers in other countries with a better economy, but I can see that for instance this one needs that money if they want to continue.
Huh, very interesting… I’m kinda shocked these exist. And at least owncast seems to load fairly quickly.
Self-hosting video sounds awesome, but it seems challenging if it were ever going to scale. Mastodon and Lemmy instances are already struggling hosting a social media platform. Streaming video sounds 1000x more difficult.
It eats up space and bandwidth. I imagine it could turn into a different model. Either the ads are directly tied to the streamer, or subscribe-to-watch.
Using something like BitTorrent could help mitigate some of the bandwidth costs, though.