mastermind@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoElon Musk Urges Mr Beast to Post Videos on Twitter for Equal Earningsi.imgur.comexternal-linkmessage-square387fedilinkarrow-up11.39Karrow-down170
arrow-up11.32Karrow-down1external-linkElon Musk Urges Mr Beast to Post Videos on Twitter for Equal Earningsi.imgur.commastermind@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square387fedilink
minus-squareDigitalPortkey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYou understand that what content creators get paid by the platform is never anywhere near what the platform gets paid by the advertisers…right? Using completely made up numbers, if Mr Beast is paid $1 by Youtube for every thousand views, YouTube may be getting paid $6 or $7 by advertisers. Otherwise the monetization would never work. Musk doesn’t have the funds or the revenue from Twitter to be able to compete with that.
You understand that what content creators get paid by the platform is never anywhere near what the platform gets paid by the advertisers…right?
Using completely made up numbers, if Mr Beast is paid $1 by Youtube for every thousand views, YouTube may be getting paid $6 or $7 by advertisers.
Otherwise the monetization would never work.
Musk doesn’t have the funds or the revenue from Twitter to be able to compete with that.