More chatter about paid subscriptions

It sounds great! but I wonder how will that effect revenue for youtubers? How is the flat-fees distributed across youtube for the youtubers.

How does that works with netflix? do you know?
 
ShyGirlGetsLoud said:
It sounds great! but I wonder how will that effect revenue for youtubers? How is the flat-fees distributed across youtube for the youtubers.
How does that works with netflix? do you know?
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I don't know how it works with Netflix.
With YouTube, there isn't any official information yet on how the fees would be distributed amongst the content that was watched.
 
ShyGirlGetsLoud said:
How does that works with netflix? do you know?
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To my understanding, like with most TV networks, be it streaming, cable or free to air; Netflix works with a combination of licensing , advertisments & subscription fees. Netflix have to pay to get certain shows streamed through their service, they would then have to pay more to buy exclusive rights to a show. They would then regain the money spent on those licenses via advertisments and the subscription fees. It's similar with things like Fox, Cartoon Network, CW, Starz etc... they actually order seasons for the shows. This is why if a show doesn't perform as well it may get cancelled by a network who's distributing it and/or the producers (or whoever) might try to sell it to another network to keep it going. I'm not sure if there's further deals worked out for royalties though, I imagine there'd have to be, otherwise the upfront contracts would cost a tremendous amount of money, compared to what they already cost.
 
This is very interesting. I'll be following to see how it all plays out. I just really want to keep doing my thing so we'll see if this affects what us smaller folks do.
 
They've been talking about this for years and I think it's closing in on the point where they're about to just do it. I don't even have cable anymore, I don't see a need for it when I've got all of my subscriptions.. Hulu Plus, Netflix, Amazon Prime and if they made YouTube into a paid subscription I like it so much I would pay for it too. I wouldn't be surprised if they transformed into the Hulu model where it's a paid service and you still have ads on your programming.
 
I just did a search for 'how musicians earn money on Spotify'. The following quote is from this article
http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/...ke-money-by-the-fraction-of-a-cent-on-spotify

The independent musician Erin McKeown has her albums on Spotify, and because she doesn't have a label, she gets all of the royalty money the service pays out every time someone plays one of her songs. McKeown asked her accountant to figure out how much money she was making. The answer was $0.004 per play — not much at all. McKeown says most of the money she sees from online activity comes from iTunes downloads.

To put that into perspective, I earn over $.002 per view (total monthly earnings divided by monthly views). i can't say exactly because we should not be discussing exact CPM/RPM.

In regards to the Netflix model, I read this link
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/netflix.htm

For example, if I created a movie or TV show called "Toy Car Extravaganza". I would try to sell the broadcast rights to earn revenue. It could be TV, Cable, Netflix, Hulu, etc. I earn a flat fee for the total broadcast rights. It is not a pay-per-view agreement.

On YouTube, the vast majority of creators do not create packaged products. We create one-off videos. Because of that, YouTube is more likely to follow a model that makes sense for the YouTube environment.
 
Content creators put so much time and effort into their videos (at least most of them), and it literally is a job. I am a full time YouTuber, my goal is just to sustain myself from YouTube because I enjoy it so much. Almost there, but I think something like this is great to help people who pour so much of themselves into this job and see no return.
 
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