Their strategy is to hide them through algorithm and demonetize them by taking away their ad revenue.
Which boggles my mind. You'd think Youtube would want to maximize their own profits. Crowder has nearly 5M subscribers. Dennis Prager is another popular conservative. Why on earth would you want to get in a war with the very people making quality content and getting millions of views?
Yeah, I hope so. Other platforms do exist, but none has Youtube's name recognization and influence, or they don't host political videos at all. I think these conservative voices will only use Youtube as a marketing tool. They'll drop a lot of teasers and promos on their channels, then they tell you that if you want ad free uncensored full contents, go visit their website and subscribe. That's already the business mode for a lot of news outlets. It just gets inconvenient to follow multiple of them.
What they lose from demonetizing conservatives is pocket change in the grand scheme of things. Politics is like 2% of youtube content and conservatives are a third of that at most. Given they dont demonetize all conservatives, they lose even less.
And lets not forget their ad revenue goes way beyond youtube
It may be just politics, but everything is being politicized right now. When legit doctors get their vids pulled down for recommending certain medications, things have really gone wrong.
Which boggles my mind. You'd think Youtube would want to maximize their own profits. Crowder has nearly 5M subscribers. Dennis Prager is another popular conservative. Why on earth would you want to get in a war with the very people making quality content and getting millions of views?
They don't care. They've already had a monopoly on searches and videos. Politics is their top priority.
For now. But they are leaving themselves wide open for another video hosting site that won't ban or demonitize people over politics.
Yeah, I hope so. Other platforms do exist, but none has Youtube's name recognization and influence, or they don't host political videos at all. I think these conservative voices will only use Youtube as a marketing tool. They'll drop a lot of teasers and promos on their channels, then they tell you that if you want ad free uncensored full contents, go visit their website and subscribe. That's already the business mode for a lot of news outlets. It just gets inconvenient to follow multiple of them.
What they lose from demonetizing conservatives is pocket change in the grand scheme of things. Politics is like 2% of youtube content and conservatives are a third of that at most. Given they dont demonetize all conservatives, they lose even less.
And lets not forget their ad revenue goes way beyond youtube
It may be just politics, but everything is being politicized right now. When legit doctors get their vids pulled down for recommending certain medications, things have really gone wrong.