bobbyflo

I'll be the first to bash on google and youtube specifically with how they've handled things in recent years, but with how easy it would be to automatically upload music or use it for legitimate copyright breaking reasons, technically speaking I think we're way past the point of some sort of 'virtual negotiation table'. Like there's way too many cases to cover, youtube needs some sort of automated or policy based system. There's no barrier to entry for uploading a single or a dozen youtube videos. With paypal, the barrier is that you have to actually be moving capital around and buying something from someone, so the scale of cases they have to deal with is much much lower.

The phrasing of the blog post makes me think that this change would cover these situations

While, rights holders will still be allowed to block the video from being monetized at all, this change looks to remove the incentive labels had of digging thru and claiming everything under the sun. I'm not a content creater, but I remember during a WAN show, Linus giving an example of a half second audio clip of a popular meme causing their entire video to loose monetization and the frustration was palpable. The change doesn't go into effect until mid September, but I feel like it should be pretty big if the systems the labels have set up to make these manual claims won't be able to pay for themselves anymore. https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2019/08/updates-to-manual-claiming-policies.html

Sources: https://youtube.googleblog.com/2018/06/vidcon-2018-helping-creators-earn-more.html https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/21/17303956/youtube-channel-memberships-patreon-features-subscriptions-vidcon-2018 Youtube announced at vidcon today that it's rolling out channel subscriptions for $4.99 with potential options down the line to expand price tiers. This seems to directly compete with the current feature offerings of Floatplane, allowing for exclusive videos and content to a paying subscribers and also encroaches on Patreon. Youtube also expands on its feature list with tight integrations with new forms of monetization such as teespring and super chat for pre-recorded videos. The latter feature is called "Premieres" and is basically live community viewings of a normal youtube upload. Reminds me of the bob ross twitch streams. Im sure creators are excited about the subscription options and better integrations with merch sales, but I think the Premieres feature will be the most compelling from a pure experience and dynamic with the platform perspective. One of the few things radio (internet or otherwise) and tv still hold above a platforms like spotify and netflix is that you are sharing the experience with other people. That subtle sense of belonging to something bigger than yourself I think is very powerful and greatly responsible for the rise of Twitch. And even though community viewing has been available though livestreams on youtube before, I think it is a huge step to bring it to normal videos. It makes things an 'event' again, kind of like saturday morning cartoons, or late night tv. Theres an emotional connection there that I dont think is being effectively tapped into currently on any popular platform, at least in regards to non-live streams. Relevant quotes: