a poor example, since they advertise natively as opposed to pre-roll, with good reason, a VPN is kind of at odds with Youtube's Big Data business model

Now, there are advertising models that actually track your internet usage - I know facebook does this

where if you visit a website, you're more likely to see paid ads for that website

it's more of a brand awareness model, where they try to keep their company name in your mind to get you to eventually buy

I'm not sure if youtube uses it, but google's advertising services do use it sometimes.

mmhmm

For instance, I just went to www.escapistmagazine.com, and I got this ad https://s0.2mdn.net/6232239/Cart-Abandoners-300x250.jpg

I've been recently looking for server space for a media company I'm trying to build, and bluehost was one of the server providers that I looked at.

That's a very directed advertisement.

I had to disable my ad blocker just to get an example. >:D

But no, I don't recall what ads I see on Tim's videos when I watch them on my phone (He does get ads on them there)

because I usually tune them out. They usually come in in the middle of a video... :/

so sould i use brave and bat?

how much money would you have gotten if this newest youtube guillotine had not hit you, and you had 999 subscribers and 3999 hours of viewtime? Just out of curiosity, I have no clue. Is it tens of dollars, or hundreds?

yearly, that is

so 4k viewer hours is 240k minutes watched

lets say you make 2 minute videos

120k views

so you get 119k views

that can be from 50-200$ maybe

I guess that's a decent chunk of money but that's not like anybody's career or anything

do a 10 hour lviestream of your hamsters being hamsters

heh

600 minutes per view (that reaches 100%)

so its kinda whack but w.e

yeah I understand, I totally hate it but I'm trying to get the boundaries of the thing

some people can hit 10k subs but not hit teh hour mark becuse they had a viral 30 second video

thanks for explaining btw.

30 seconde video

average watch time is 20 seconds

yeah, meme videos and such

youll need 720,000 views

time to twitch it

and get subs

and bits

and whatnot

and amazon (actual possible competitor to youtube)

but would it be trading one set of problems for another.. who knows...

I guess the worst thing from this is that if you're a budding content creator, the first time someone pays you money for the stuff you've created feels good

that being said, Amazon is probably the only feasable company that could possibly bring any competition to Youtube...

and now the treshold is pretty high