• drake@lemmy.sdf.org
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    30 days ago

    There’s plenty of speculation that YouTube has never turned a profit. We have no way to know for sure, though.

    TikTok is quite different since it’s shorts only. I can totally see that being a viable model, because you can more comfortably cram ads between pieces of content. That’s why YouTube is pushing shorts so heavily.

    Nebula is propped up by private investment. I had a quick look and found SEC filings which indicate they have raised over $9 million dollars in private investment in the past 3 years.

    Patreon has almost no video hosting compared to how much revenue they have.

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      30 days ago

      TikTok is quite different since it’s shorts only

      Tiktok allows streaming too. It’s got great discoverability, but garbage monetization.