• YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Platforms like Floatplane, Nebula, Patreon etc make it so easy to support creators outside of YouTube, while also giving creators a larger share of income compared to Adsense.

    There’s YouTube Premium… but I don’t think I’m alone in not wanting to give Google a single cent of my hard earned cash

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The problem with things like Patreon is that nobody with an average income can afford to pay “only 5 dollars per month, 10 for premium membership” for each channel and podcaster they have subscribed to. It makes more sense to rather pay a flat fee for one or two streaming services (in my case Nebula and YT Premium) than 30 Patreon memberships.