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The amount of people paying with patreon is just so so tiny compared to people watching YouTube in any country or city that I am not even sure what your point is.

> Why cant YouTube figure out how to get that money people are clearly willing to part with?

What does this even mean? I hope you are not suggesting in good faith that YouTube should grab money from other companies somehow? Money that was given to that company by people with specific expectations in mind.

What exactly is YouTube failure here? The patreon citation is just so irrelevant because of scale. Taking all of Patreon revenue would not cover YouTube hosting costs.

People on HN love to talk about patreon as an alternative to youtube premium because it is an easy way out. But if it was representative of real world actions, Patreon would be processing a lot lot more money.



> The amount of people paying with patreon is just so so ...

Interesting. What are your sources for that info? :)


Many Patreon creators allow you to see how many patrons they have.

The most popular Patreon creators have something like ~50,000 patrons.

Anyone able to pull in that many patrons is likely to have millions of viewers on YouTube.

The proportion of viewers that pay is tiny.


> Many Patreon creators allow you to see how many patrons they have.

Ahhh.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of that being optional either.

Many Patreon creators don't though, so it's kind of hard to tell. :/

That being said, I kind of wonder if the % of people paying creators is much different to the average % of people who pay for online services.

From (probably dodgy?) rough memory, that's something like 4% of users.

No idea how that works out when compared to $ from Youtube viewers though. :)




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