@world5list (800k subs) and the The Great Steemification of YouTube in an adpocolypse world
Hey all, I just had an opportunity to record a conversation with Rene from @world5list. He's the owner of the YouTube channel World5list, which has 800,000 subscribers.
https://www.youtube.com/user/World5list
He's one of several people I've spoken with recently about how frustrating YouTube has become. Between demonetization of videos, outright censorship, and growing competition it's becoming less and less attractive for content creators.
Rene has been looking at Patreon and Steemit as two platforms that might offer him a legitimate alternative to YouTube (along with his business partner Angelo who runs TheyWillKillYou with 1,000,000 subscribers).
https://www.patreon.com/theywillkillyou
It seems to me that there are ways to support the central needs of both groups. Steem needs visibility to help grow our active user population and accounts. YouTube personalities need steady income streams to support their work. Pretty sure we can help one another. Steem can help the YouTube channel operators form a community and start shifting their efforts from YouTube centric to Steem first with a Youtube backup.
Steem can support them financially and they can use their reach to help raise awareness across the internet. I'm personally committed to helping this happen.
@world5list has agreed to release exclusive content not only to Patreon, but to Steemit as well, and basically shift to a busines model with a world premier on Steem and Patreon and archive on YouTube. These videos normally cost $20 for one-month early access, but they're providing it to us here on Steemit for free!
To give you an idea and to make this a little more concrete, here is a link to episode 2 of Escobar Uncovered - an extended interview with Pablo Escobars' former main hitman; part of a series that Angelo and Rene recorded in Medellin, Colombia. Several trailers and episode one are already publicly accesible on YouTube, but THIS episode is not yet available to the public and I am curious to see how the Steemit community feels about having exclusive access to this type of unique content. Do you think that this would add value to the platform as a whole? Is this something you would support with upvotes to potentially enable them to eventually abandon YouTube all together in favor of Steemit?!
In the end, these two populations need each other and should help solve one another's greatest challenges.
I'm hosting a YouTube/Media forum on mspwaves Satuday January 13 at 11am EST (1600 UTC). Hopefully you, some whales, some devs, and some youtube personalities representing millions of subscribers will come join us.
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Thanks again for having me on today. The more I talk to you, the more I believe that Steemit is a viable, worthy addition to the world5list brand and the theywillkillyou brand intitially, that can turn into a viable alternative for YouTube down the line. Looking forward to getting the getting the ball rolling on this in the next few days and weeks! Very interesting to listen to you and pick your brain about all this.
Man, I had no idea about who was behind the series on Popeye but super interesting to find out it was you guys. I've lived here in Medellin for the last 5 years and so I've experienced first hand how the narco trade has effected the country. Great work on the series though. We'll see you over here on SteemIt when you begin to make the transition eventually. ;) This type of content will be a smash hit here!!
Amazing idea. This is just pure value creation for steem, for Youtubers and for steemians. Love it
Youtube also makes commenting seem like something that looks like they do not want you to do, comments are unwanted on youtube, they had many updates to try and make commenting less of a thing they wanted you to do, commments are also automatically hidden when a video page comes up and then it takes 20 seconds to load comments and even then, they are difficult to even read. Steemit's D.tube is more comfortable community than was Vidme, which buckled under the pressure of the competition recently.
This could mean 1,800,000 more steemians!!!
Youtube is becoming filthy nowadays. All the ads in the beginning and during videos are so annoying. And also the clickbaits video are a problem.
With the recent grow of Steem we can expect many youtubers join our community which is great because they will let know their followers on youtube about this site and for sure many will join. Great times ahead!
Ou.l know this.Really World5list is wonderful and I think everyone should watch the videos...I will exactly record with Rene...@aggroed If you don't share this post, really i lose a lot... I believe that Steemit will strengthen more and our team will become biggest and best👍👍
I've recently tried to upload a video to Dtube and I must say that the business model is vastly superior to youtube. What's the point of liking and disliking a video when it provides no monetary incentive for the content creators? Honestly, I think it's just a matter of time before the masses converge and convert to Dtubers!
nice post
this is amazing, i personally think this is the way to go, having great content creators on steemit, it will not only make them money but will make their audience steemit users too and thats a ton of growth, its a great idea
Nice post
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