Anyone here experienced in monetising blogging/streaming?
I hear the 'Youtube personalities' are getting rich by extracting money from middle class teenagers, which in turn extract money from their parents. I browsed around the Twitch streamers, and it seems to be a top-heavy profession with hundreds of streamers having only a single-digit number of viewers.
Wow finally a thread which isn't about crypto currency.
Wyatt Phillips
Having been there, i can tell you it's not as easy as it looks, but once you grab it, it becomes a pure hand of Midas.
Basically, what you are looking for is hitting one of the Twitch not-too-overplayed not-too-unknown games. Then hire some bots to get some boost (300 should be enough in the beginning, but it will cost), then keep fucking trying to get attention. Get a chick to play with you, appeal to the audience with your social skills, get on some media, get on good terms with someone so that they may "raid" you, etc. Once you get about 5.000 followers, you can strike a deal with Twitch. Each subscriber gives you 2 dollars and Twitch gets 3. From there on, it's a routine thing, but the way is only upwards, unless you screw up badly.
Ryan Sanchez
I have a channel with over 100.000 subs, but i do animations and i dont talk or show my face, nobody knows who i am
my twitter and facebook pages are small and I aint got a twitch
im wondering how i can get more money out of my already stablished (and growing) fanbase
i would hate being famous so whoring yourself on cam is out of the question
im also thinking about ways to go worldwide, cause im stuck with spanish speaking countries for now which have a low CPM
Hunter Butler
Tee's or signed posters ect?
Tyler Murphy
Unless you're one of >a girl >good at games >naturally charismatic
Don't bother, you'll just be some ass on camera streaming for 5 people. Kind of late to the party too.
Did you see Twitch creative? Those would be monetizable products, but fewer viewers and they require more talent.
Why couldn't you do your animations in English?
Could hire a translator for $10/hr of video (not hour worked) on mechanical turk, if that's the problem.
Grayson Bennett
Yeah i've considered tee's, but i don't know if it's legal to put a link in your youtube header page even tho everyone does it.. i dont want to risk lossing my channel
i may wait until i reach at least 500k subs, to sell t's u need massive traffic
Noah Adams
the animations barely have any text at all, any kid that watches it would enjoy it
the problem is it references characters that are very famous in the hispanic yt community so it has attracted all the hispanic speakers
hopefully in the future i can do videos with references to characters that speak en english to get some english traffic going
i do get views from usa and some ad revenue too, but its nothing compared to countries like mexico
Tyler Adams
Have you considered having viewers pay to be in a video?
Like charge $20, and then let them design a character, maybe have them even record a couple lines of dialogue?
Could do a free contest at first to see if there's any interest, but if you get a few hundred submissions, there might be. It would be good advertising too.
Isaiah Young
>it references characters that are very famous in the hispanic yt community
If you have 100,000 subs, have you tried to do any cross promotional stuff with these characters?
