More adds and less money for creators… Where is money going? We all know.
On the flip side, I am genuinely curious how much storage and processing time all the AI slop being uploaded is costing them. Some of that stuff is hours long, and like most videos on YouTube, most people aren’t watching it.
Why do so many people abbreviate adverts/advertisements to “adds”… where is the extra d coming from ?
I’m with you there. When I see “adds”, I want to know where they’re coming from and who’s going to tank them.
Ads, on the other hand, those I’m content with knowing my adblocker is taking care of it.
If you watch adds, advertisers put their D where they want.
Keep moving the goalposts so YT can just keep more of the ad money for themselves and the line moving up. More enshittification, nothing new is created but the service gets worse in the name of profitability.
I had a video of a newsworthy event a while back that went viral, and I made over 5 grand on it over the course of about 2-3 years when YouTube changed its monetization policy to require like 10k subscribers or something before the creator could monetize.
The video didn’t stop getting views. It had a spike in views just a few weeks ago when something similar happened in the same area. But I haven’t made any money from it in like 8 years.
I used to display Google ad links on my site, they accumulated value - slowly, but Google would only cut a check when you reach $100 worth of ads shown. My earnings approached $100 like an asymptote, halfway there in the first 6 months, 3/4 in the first year, 7/8 in the second year, 15/16 in the third… never did quite reach $100, and so my payout for all my effort and showing of their ads remains to this day $0.
I think it would be super easy for them to fudge the numbers on their side.
And when you have “proof” they fudged their numbers, how exactly do you make the monster pay? It’s definitely a rigged game.
Don’t worry, guys. After creators eat THIS shit sandwich it’ll stop getting worse and everything will be great.
Then they removed their ads from all channels below 8,000 hours, right?.. Right?!
No, AFAIK they still push ads on you whether you’re monetized or not.
I got “removed” from adsense around 2005. There had better not be ads on my vids.
Reminds me of that woman who made science videos on both YouTube and Pornhub and she makes more money on Pornhub.
If I’m remembering correctly it was more money per view on pornhub but she had significantly more views on YouTube so the total amount per platform was still significantly in YouTube favor.
Still wild that a porn site theoretically pays better than Google.
I have no clue how common adblock is among YouTube users, but there’s probably a bigger chunk of pornhub viewers on mobile.
Pornhub is also in an unique place, given a lot of advertisers won’t advertise there. Pushing prices down, but simultaneously a different set of advertisers can only advertise there. Pushing the price up. I have absolutely no clue whether or not pornhub charge more per ad view than Google ad services on average
the porn hub ones nude ? like getting undressed as she’s explaining a black hole.
Have a channel url ? asking for a friend
Yeh, that’s why I love pornhub. The science is on point.
idk, pornhub brings google into your porn habits, I don’t want to deal with google at all.
That is actually interesting to know. Makes a person wonder what is the demographic watching the videos and why.
You can make money on YouTube without having a monetized account. But you can also make money on PeerTube in exactly the same way.
YouTube became evil the moment we all dislike-bombed their year in review video and they never made another one.
YouTube became evil when google ditched their slogan “don’t be evil!”.
So, it was evil from the start. It just needed to lure enough uncritical consumers in before enshittification started. Piece by piece.
YouTube became evil the moment Google got involved.
Maybe but YouTube wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for the years Google paid for it with no monetization in sight.
It was doing just fine until Google bought it.
Uh. No it wasn’t. Google footed the bill for years until they were able to make money on it. I’m not saying poor Google but to assume youtube would still exist without Google’s cash is very unlikely.
Pichai you fucking banchode.
The end result is that channels will just post twice as much slop to get to those hours and actually human creators give up, meaning YouTube becomes even more sloppified.
As Google intended.
SlopTube powered by Sloople 🤭
The end result is that channels will just post twice as much slop to get to those hours
Slop doesn’t get return viewers, which is counter-productive to reaching a watch hours (or subscribers) threshold.
I subscribed to YouTube Red back in the day, when that’s what it was called.
Then circa early 2018 they changed the rules for monetisation from the previous 10k lifetime views to 1k subs & 4k watch hours over 12 months. That was when I unsubscribed from Red and installed an ad blocker. I had always been anti ad-blocker because my view was that people creating content deserve to get paid for it. That’s still my view in principle, but the increasing enshittification of the web thanks in no small part to shit like this from Google has meant I weigh the pros & cons differently. YouTube showed me very directly that they don’t care about supporting their creators. So I decided I didn’t want to support them anymore. It’s not like this was the first problem…the whole “where’s the fair use” thing came before that, and many other events besides. But cutting off small creators like that, without even grandfathering in existing creators who had been monetised with that threshold, was the last straw for me.
It was also Google’s fault that I moved from Ad Block Plus, which I chose specifically because of its “acceptable ads” policy (basically: let through ads that aren’t obnoxious), to uBlock Origin, which lacked such a policy, after YouTube tried blocking ad blockers from YouTube, and UBO was quicker to adapt.
That’s twice now that Google’s own actions have directly led to me supporting them less than I used to. This won’t be the third time, but only because I have no more cuts to give.
I watch less YouTube than ever thanks to the sheerly ridiculous amount if ads.
Remember everybody. Get a vpn with a node in albania. Youtube cannot force a signin or display ads to people in albania.
Its really that simple.
Ads??
Yeah no kidding. Morphe is a blessing. Same with unlock.
Do you know where the option is in morphe to get the feed on the front page back? For some reason mine is blank suddenly and I don’t know how to fix it
Might I suggest trying to update the app, both the pre-patched one and the patches applied.
I think I did recently but I’ll try again
You should be browsing from your subscriptions. Youtube front page is just monetized slop, for discovery talk to your friends let them be the slop filter (or worst case reddit)
I don’t have subs as I don’t log into youtube, and it always just gave me an algo feed before based on what I usually watch. This happened once before but I don’t remember how I fixed it. Maybe it just needs an update like armok suggested
Big corp squeezing more money from people “because share holders want progress”. BS
I know nothing about how YT works. How is 20 million shorts views in 90 days a viable number? That seems ridiculous.
I guess they’ll keep pushing it till the line starts going down.
