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Bofferbrauer2 said:

Chazore said:

Y'know, Youtube's Adpocalypse honestly feels like it's making people wholly dependant only on ads and nothing else that can be offered in this world, and that's both depressing and sad. 

Also, fuck their sponsors if they paid them to shill. I hate that kind of act and wish it was investigated more often and punished, not just on the client side, but the sponsors side tenfold. 

There are other ways to finance a channel, like merch or a Patreon, for instance. But the income from those are generally not enough to keep you going by themselves, so ads are still necessary. Still, those could generate enough additional income to not need to resort to such underhanded tactics.

We can't forget either that Youtube video production values have been increasing year-on-year since the platform launched... Which does cost money and requires extra staffing.

Linus Tech Tips is probably a perfect example of this, started off with just him, then a few more people, now it's a full media business... Adverts alone couldn't support that growth.

In saying that, what I find frustrating is when companies like Nintendo or nVidia "blacklist" Youtubers because they didn't shine their products in the absolute perfect light, it's basically blackmail, some Youtube channels are happy to use their own coin to get a hold of the hardware, but it does mean they often release their videos with a delay... And that means they don't get as many click and probably less revenue.

So sponsorships can skew results for some less-candid youtube channels.