Major problem preventing Makers from joining Dtube and Steemit

As I see it, the ideal goal of Steemit and the associated dApps such as DTube is to get people away from centralised hosting services such as Facebook and Youtube, its primary method of doing this is obviously incentivising the platform.

But there is 1 massive problem that exists and prevents household youtube names from migrating away from YouTube and taking up residence on DTube. That problem is the 7day payment windows.

Now I'm only going to refer to the world of Makers as thats where my interest lay, but the problems are replicated over all of the niches I'm sure.

Now if we look at Jimmy Diresta, he's undoubtedly the biggest Maker on the internet with over 1.2Million subscribers to his channel and 119K Instagram followers.

His last video, uploaded 5days ago has had over 227,000 views so far.

So for someone like him, it would be a major financial detriment to even consider moving to dTube, as his videos earn for him for months at a time. Many of the makers that are popular on Youtube are in the same boat, they have quit their jobs to concentrate only on Youtube as it pays a very good wage.

Obviously these people would still earn on DTube and any associated articles, but it no longer becomes a passive form of income, they need to up their game and be consistant.

The solution may be that it could be changed to a variable payout window from 7 days up to 60days. This would have a dual effect of not depleting the rewards pool as often, but also allowing high earning makers such as these guys to capitalise on their content over a longer period of time at the cost of less easy access to their earnings.

These are just some thoughts and opinions that may be addressed with SMT's and HF20, and only intended to spark some conversation and debate.

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Somebody asked Pewdiepie, the biggest YouTuber with 62 million subscribers if he would move to dTube and he hadn't even heard of it and he indicated that he wouldn't.

I think he believes more in trying to reform YouTube rather than moving to different platforms.

I don't think too many people like the payout windows (the ones complaining now that weren't around earlier would have hated the 24hr one XD). Be an interesting problem to solve.

goatsig

While I agree the 7 day cap for payment seems prohibitive for perpetual montization but when you look at the overall youtube earning stats (link below) it seems not so big youtubers will have plenty of incentive to join Dtube.
As long as Dtube pays some decent coinage (within 7 days) for small/mid youtubers there is chance to foster new content creators who can't rise within current Yotube ecosystem.

In fact, 96.5 percent of all of those trying to become YouTubers won’t make enough money off of advertising to crack the U.S. poverty line, according to an analysis by Mathias Bärtl, a professor at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in Offenburg.

http://fortune.com/2018/02/27/youtube-success-poverty-wages/

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