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| Elasia:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 28, 2020, 07:39:26 am --- --- Quote from: james_s on May 28, 2020, 07:04:59 am --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on May 28, 2020, 06:49:50 am ---Sure, but you mad the specific claim that "TV and youtube are garbage for teaching you anything". The problem with making general statements like that is that you only have the find one example to prove you wrong. Let me give you a better example. Let's say you want to learn how to tie a knot, or fold a paper airplane, or some other such manual dexterity thing like say doing a stakeboard trick. What is better, a textbook instruction with 2D diagrams, or someone physically spending a minute actually showing you "live"? You can guarantee there are countless example that will demonstrably prove you wrong. --- End quote --- I can say with certainty that youtube has been a lifesaver for my mom. --- End quote --- Another example from one of my videos, my most popular one, the opamps basics video, 50min long. The number of people who have contacted me thanking me for the video and how they now understand opamps better than any teacher or textbook ever taught them has been incalculable. Sure, it's not every for everyone, but for countless people (possibly 1M+ people) it's been what they wanted and they learned something. Everyone learns differently, and whether it was my approach and video style, or a combination of things, what I'm pretty certain of is that it would have been more effective than the exact same material presented in a boring PDF. Don't underestimate the role of the enthusiasm of the host etc when presenting information. This is as true on Youtube as it was in the days of live public lectures. For many people the key to learning is to be engaged by someone enthusiastic about it and essentially presenting it in an entertaining style. --- End quote --- +1 for this... thanks Dave... this or one like it was how i found you as well like a decade ago lol I like your videos.. easy refresher content and yeah that opamps video is probly the best explanation of them i've ever seen.. I still send people to go watch it to this day |
| Elasia:
--- Quote from: Someone on May 28, 2020, 08:33:14 am ---These things are constantly in flux and the rules change all the time. Payment rates are all over the place, your experiences are not typical of most content producers. Even if you maintained CPM rates that isn't true of others (or new entrants, or the majority). As an established and volume content supplier you are seeing quite different mechanisms than "regular" smaller channels. There were (and still are) many different video platforms with a range of different monetisation methods, youtube was never the only choice. There has been continuous competition of those platforms to retain content producers. Lols for putting up a video response.... right back to the discussion of trying to push chunks of off topic content rather than taking the time to present the relevant bit. --- End quote --- Not wrong about that... this actually goes back further than this, my own company got bought by doubleclick which then became google adsense when google bought them.. I've had the pleasure to watch monetization of the internet from the get go and google has been all over the place. Thing is they adjust rapidly depending on market conditions.. no more no less and thats how they survive / dominate |
| engrguy42:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 28, 2020, 05:00:09 am --- --- Quote from: engrguy42 on May 27, 2020, 10:07:51 am ---And now you're even liable for huge fines if your guess on what constitutes offensive is wrong. --- End quote --- Err, no, how so exactly would that happen? --- End quote --- COPPA |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: engrguy42 on May 28, 2020, 10:16:54 am --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on May 28, 2020, 05:00:09 am --- --- Quote from: engrguy42 on May 27, 2020, 10:07:51 am ---And now you're even liable for huge fines if your guess on what constitutes offensive is wrong. --- End quote --- Err, no, how so exactly would that happen? --- End quote --- COPPA --- End quote --- Forgot about that, but it's essentially going to be a nothing-burger. Not something an individual creator has to worry about in practice in terms of a fines. And certainly not anyone who's not a US citizen. What it has destroyed entire genres of content creation like kids content. |
| HobGoblyn:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on May 28, 2020, 07:39:26 am --- --- Quote from: james_s on May 28, 2020, 07:04:59 am --- --- Quote from: EEVblog on May 28, 2020, 06:49:50 am ---Sure, but you mad the specific claim that "TV and youtube are garbage for teaching you anything". The problem with making general statements like that is that you only have the find one example to prove you wrong. Let me give you a better example. Let's say you want to learn how to tie a knot, or fold a paper airplane, or some other such manual dexterity thing like say doing a stakeboard trick. What is better, a textbook instruction with 2D diagrams, or someone physically spending a minute actually showing you "live"? You can guarantee there are countless example that will demonstrably prove you wrong. --- End quote --- I can say with certainty that youtube has been a lifesaver for my mom. --- End quote --- Another example from one of my videos, my most popular one, the opamps basics video, 50min long. The number of people who have contacted me thanking me for the video and how they now understand opamps better than any teacher or textbook ever taught them has been incalculable. Sure, it's not every for everyone, but for countless people (possibly 1M+ people) it's been what they wanted and they learned something. Everyone learns differently, and whether it was my approach and video style, or a combination of things, what I'm pretty certain of is that it would have been more effective than the exact same material presented in a boring PDF. Don't underestimate the role of the enthusiasm of the host etc when presenting information. This is as true on Youtube as it was in the days of live public lectures. For many people the key to learning is to be engaged by someone enthusiastic about it and essentially presenting it in an entertaining style. --- End quote --- I’ve learnt a ton of stuff from your vids (and a few other people’s) Even watching your vids that are too advanced for me, the way you present things are very easy on the eye and very watchable, and more than once as I’ve learnt something else, I’ve rewatched a vid that was too advanced , and it’s all clicked into place. I was a bit of an idiot at school (70s and 80s), in that I was more interested in messing around than learning. Algebra is one area I didn’t bother studying, and YouTube has been brilliant in teaching me what I missed. Sure there’s a ton of crap on YouTube but there’s also a ton of very very useful educational content. |
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