WHY do people keep using this LAME excuse?
1) Nobody suggested they do the work, so why are you bringing that up again??
2) My suggestion is what work if ANY are they doing that is worth anything?
I don't know why this is so complicated. It's really very simple. IF, the MCNs are worth anything it should be demonstrable. For you to pay thousands of dollars to a company and not be able to show any benifit is foolish. You people keep talking about how much easier they make it but as I said already, if you make our jobs easier to any significant degree, it should be easy to prove! You examples are silly and do not reflect the issues at hand. Take your car example.
Taking public transportation has actual value therefore you can PROVE it easily! It's VERY easy to show travel times in traffic versus on a train. It's VERY easy to show how much more work you get done, while sitting in a train instead of driving. If MCNs were providing public transportation, you could easily show the benefit in your metrics. I'd just show you how much videos I'm able to do with the extra time and you would see my views going up and revenue.
Again...if MCNs have ANY real value for small channels why can't ONE person PROVE it! All I hear is empty talk like what those greedy bastards try to tell me. Put up or shut up! I showed you mines, now show me yours! DEMONSTRATE how an MCN has helped you and how it's worth anything.
Finally to your other silly points:
"Do you use cheaper (usually easier to access) music libraries from an MCN or try get a likely more expensive license by yourself?
Do you use an MCN's support or try to research the issue yourself?
Do you use an MCN's sponsors or try reach out to some yourself?"
-Tons of free music available online. Even YouTube I'm told now has music you can monitize. No MCN library is worth me giving them thousands a year for something I could get for free or for a fraction of the cost.
-Screw MCN support. I can't even get help from YouTube EMPLOYEES themselves who I already have direct contact with, so how is some outsider network gonna help more than me posting on forums and using Google and common sense?
-Sounds nice, but can you demonstrate this? Again, I put up PROOF of what I can do, so don't tell me about what you think they can do, PROVE it! Every scammer makes tons of lofty promises but fails to demonstrate that they can actually do what they promise. Not ONE MCN has been able to provide me with ANY proof ANYTHING. What kind of fool buys a product just based on empty promises? Would you buy a car from some no name company just based on salesman pitch? Even if you knew of the company but did not know about thier performance (reviews or ANY info on how thier products are), would you buy thier product?
MCNs are there to help/ make things easier not do the work, other examples of this:
