Bringing YouTube Channel Owners to Steem: Let's Make it Worth it for Everyone!

in #steem7 years ago (edited)

I've spent some of the last two weeks as a liaison between Steem, YouTubers on Steem, and those that aren't here yet. I've spent a few hours talking to people and have come up with a few conclusions.

The YouTube landscape is a little bleak right now

Competition is fierce
If you're not already above 1M subscribers the challenge of getting there seems a lot higher than it was 3-4 years ago. It seems as though everyone has thought about just being a YouTube star and has attempted this. As a consequence there's a lot more channels producing a much wider range of content. It's good for YouTube and it attracts a wider audience, but it's harder to get noticed during that time.

Adpocolypse
You can't talk to a person in YouTube land that doesn't seem drastically impacted by YouTube's ongoing changes to their financial policy. Whether you believe it's a form of censorship or you believe it's just corporate sponsors being very picky the result remains the same: YouTube channels are getting their revenue cut. For the folks making a living this way it's pretty scary to see that their revenue gets cut randomly.

Ad experience of the user
Have you tried watching YouTube lately? It's a fucking cess pool of ads. Want to watch a video? Watch this video first. Enjoyed 3 minutes of your video? Watch this 8 min video to see the next 4 minutes. You get the drill. The user experience of that literally keeps me away, and no it doesn't inspire me to get youtube red.

Steem is getting there

So, if you're already at 1M+ subscribers than Steem might not be the best place to grow your listenership or honestly contribute enough money to help you do what you do just yet. It's a good backup and a good plan, but it wont' be your central revenue source. That's not true for smaller channels though.

If you're in the sweet spot of 100k-1M then we're at a pretty good fit. Steem needs more eyeballs so we can grow. If you're a YouTube Channel operator then you got those! You need money. Don't know if you noticed it but Steem at one point hit a $1B market cap. Peeps in here have money. So, let's barter our money for your pitching us.

How does it work for Channel Operators

I'll help you. I'll be your Steem pimp. I'll pitch your content to some whales. I'll introduce you on radio shows to this community. I'll try to get you on panel discussions with big names on the platform to help you grow. It sucks getting started on Steem, but it helps if I'm there. I'm a top 20 witness with 9k followers, and there's a lot of people that think I help this platform and would back you if I'm promoting you.

So, that's how we're gonna get you money. I'll even put in some honorariums of 50-300 steem to bring you on shows and pimp you that way too. What you need to do though is progressive work towards these things:

  1. At the end of every video I need you to promote your steem channel to your audience. When you're saying click here, subscribe here, touch this, hum that way.. you need to also say "Here's a link to my Steem profile leave a comment on my page and I'll try to type back to you!"

  2. You should be putting your content on Steem. We want you using dtube, dsound, and dlive as well as the other projects that come here. We want you to put your content on steem based tools. Can you use others? Sure, but we need you doing this if you want attention from this community or help from me.

  3. Exclusive to Steem content. We want you to pull your loyal audience here. To get the folks that don't want to miss out you need a hook. Exclusive content can do that.

  4. Interact with fans. On Youtube you get a viral video and it gets 2000 comments and you dont' care about answering people. Here, especially as a bit of a celebrity you're going to care. Every comment you make could get you upvotes in addition to your article, story, video, song, whatever. So, you have a financial incentive to finally interact with fans. Your story could get $20. Your comment to a fan could earn $300. Won't always be like that, but people will drop upvotes on comments from you!

  5. Make a plea, some tutorials, and other videos about crypto in general, and Steem in particular to help them understand how to be here.

Steem is hard and there's a learning curve

Steeming ain't easy. But that's ok. There's a help group for that. Have you heard of the Minnow Support Group? I founded this baby. It's got 6,000+ Steemians in there and it's run by publicly elected witnesses and moderators on the blockchain that can help you and your audience learn the ropes! This is part of how you can educate your people. Send them our way we'll straighten'em out in no time. We tend hang out in a Discord group called the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network. You can join it here: https://discord.gg/dpGVBcy. I also just redirected minnowpond.org to there, so that's a little easier to remember.

What if I'm just a minnow? Does any of this apply to me?

Yes, I'm crowd sourcing sales of Steem as a good home to all the minnows. I'm willing to pay you 50-200 steem if you line up someone with 100k-1M youtube subs to come on the minnow mayor town hall, or any of the youtube forums I'm gonna run. So, yeah. Minnows can get in on this action too. Just start bugging people to come to Steem, point them to that discord and tell them to talk to aggroed and if we make it all work out I'll give them and you some Steem.

The forum is my big one. It's gonna run on January 13th from 11am to 1pm (starts 1600 UTC). The real payout is to get them there, so that's you're ultimate goal.

This is part of my witness goals

The Charter of the Minnow Support Project is to Spread the values of Peace, Abundance, and Liberty, grow the Steem ecosystem, and train and retain minnows on the platform. Bringing YouTube Channels here helps with growing the Steem ecosystem and the help I'm offering them should help train and retain them and their audience. This is the work I'm doing for the platform right now to pour some gasoline on the Steem fire. Please vote my witness if you think this will help.

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Great. I think steem definitely deserves some gasoline on top of its fire because it's definitely undervalued. This is good for us, for youtubers, and for the world.

heloo steemer! am new here. Its nice to see you.
my name is @nosheensarfraz.
please welcome me and follow me https://steemit.com/@nosheensarfraz
and don't forget to upvoke. remember me in prayers :) your prayers can change luck of mine

We have developed a system to allow steemit users to propogate content from steemit to other social media sites automatically detailed post summaries and formatting.

One of our founders @dakotakaiser has sent you a message on discord @aggroed about this and our DAO tools.

Please get back to him when you can (:

heloo steemer! am new here. Its nice to see you.
my name is @nosheensarfraz.
please welcome me and follow me https://steemit.com/@nosheensarfraz
and don't forget to upvoke. remember me in prayers :) your prayers can change luck of mine

Where is this system? I could write you a webapp where the web app calls your tool when it gets paid by the user. Hmm.. also I have a lot on my plate.

Alright-- I have 15k subs over on YouTube.

I'm not as big as you are looking for in your article, but I know how to produce some video!!

I am new-ish on Steemit and trying to grow it. I would love to know what you have in mind for the 10k subscriber YouTubers!!

I don't know yet, but come talk to me Sunday night from 8-11pm. We're in minnowpond.org.

@aggroed want to build an Youtube Empire check my Blog.
You will be able to rank 3.4 Million YouTube Videos within short time

heloo steemer! am new here. Its nice to see you.
my name is @nosheensarfraz.
please welcome me and follow me https://steemit.com/@nosheensarfraz
and don't forget to upvoke. remember me in prayers :) your prayers can change luck of mine

this is interesting. you always make a project that can burn the spirit for many people. your idea is very brilliant in developing steemit. for me now steemit is a window to the future of world economy. thanks for information sir. i like you

I'm a Youtuber with an audience of 70,000 plus subscribers so I'm not the biggest but decent sized audience. I've been on Steemit since around June.

I've made some videos about Steemit and encouraged my audience to join on and a few are still on here like @mitchyboy and some others, many people came on and left kind of frustrated with the platform and that's somewhat understandable. It can be really hard to get traction on here. I've been on here consistantly posting, and while I could be a bit more active in the community and contests and stuff I've been pretty consistantly on here and havn't really seen a ton of growth so it is tough.

That said I do enjoy this platform and will be sticking around.

Come find me in Discord. Go here and it will direct you minnowpond.org.

How do we find you on Discord? Can find you.

Many YouTube-stars today become Steemit users

nice post.

The Minnow Support Group sound amazing! I'll check it out right away, thanks for the info!

hilarious- as a youtuber with 2000 subs and 40000 views , i can tell you it is very hard to get support for original music here and people would rather read about Bitcoin or Steem. The busking competition for playing songs on steemit ignores people who produce and release music onto Youtube and Itunes. I referred some great musicians here and they left after finding it too hard to earn anything significant, and seeing the type of content that whales upvote leaves us confused. No worries , i love steemit but i think focus on youtubers with 100000 subs and above is ignoring the thousands of musicians who produce original content and have around 1000 or more subs. I want to see steemit grow and it will when the rewards system is improved and there is some type of steemit support for resolving issues for users. Maybe whales should adopt and support people with thousands of people in there twitter facebook and youtube networks. I have 40000 on twitter 5000 on facebook and 2000 on youtube and got ignored here if i posted art or music.

It would be similar if you join any new platform. You can post also to YouTube, and say vimeo, and the many others out there. I find it frustrating that I need to go to YouTube for many of the video channels I enjoy. People are creatures of habit . it's going to take a long time to migrate them from YouTube to other platforms.

It's not only the viewers of YouTube videos but also the producers that are stuck in their habits. So, they stay on YouTube in spite of dropping rewards. The bitcoiners that bought into Bitcoin saved early benefited the most. Get into Steemit now and you will benefit more.

What happens on YouTube should be a wake-up call to all YouTubers that they ought to build their audiences on as many platforms as possible to remove the single point of failure problem. Get on viewster, vimeo, videojug and tube.video. Continue posting to YouTube as well but give your viewers options of where to view your content.

Here are my channel links--

YouTube.com/BetterTogetherLife

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