YouTube: What is going to happen

[ForeverWonderful]

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This is SERIOUS! If you use youtube, very serious. This is what's going to happen... Already some changes. Watch the video. Please!

[Deja Q]

1. Yipes.

:(

Thanks for posting that.

K&R

[lamp_shade]

2. A little additional information please before I click on that link.

[Deja Q]

3. Agreed - I took the risk anyway, but it is worth watching.

[ForeverWonderful]

4. Some info

The video is about the changes that will hapen on YouTube. Like, for example, the pushing of partners and the smaller channels' views getting cut. This is not a rickroll or a screamer. Watch!

[lamp_shade]

7. Thanks.

[oxygen destroyer]

5. You think that's serious?

That's nothing. Get a load of THIS. It'll put the fear of God in you and push it right back out.

[ForeverWonderful]

8. lol

Thanks for rickrolling me.

[Deja Q]

9. !

:rofl:

Shame on you, but :rofl:

I still think the OP has a valid point...

[marmar]

6. I'm not surprised......

We live in a corporate "Truman Show" state.

[NashVegas]

10. Yeah, Well ...

Traditional media is in a bind.

Because they've had shitty managers for 15 years who killed diversity and ignored the wants/needs of huge segments of potential media consumers, they've lost readers/viewers/listeners.

Web 2.0 was created by people with soulless $70k day jobs (or on their way to them), living in jealousy of people with $20k-40k "glamor" jobs, who often didn't have any more say in their work than a DoD contracting engineer.

Have you not noticed how many digital / social media figures there are trying desperately to become the next Richard Branson, a la personal branding, and yet skip over the fact Branson made his money because he had a product to bring to the market that people wanted - and that product wasn't Richard Branson?

The people making money on Web 2.0 are people who have something to sell.

The average day-job person on Twitter who is there promoting their blogs, their videos, and their network acquaintances' blogs and vids, has no idea they are participating in one huge circle-jerk to get that .04 from Google Adsense for every 2k page views. They also don't realize that if not for the output from that $20k-$40k earner, whose jobs are disappearing wholesale, they wouldn't have any content in the first place.

The last thing corporate-owned media wants right now is another 40 thousand unemployed, creative, people with direct knowledge of how badly their businesses are run and nothing to lose.

It's all a huge catch-22 right now.