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How Youtubers Built a $150 Million Streaming Platform
« on: June 16, 2023, 12:51:40 am »
Makes us full time electronics Youtubers look like a bunch of amateur hacks. Guilty as charged, of course.

 
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Re: How Youtubers Built a $150 Million Streaming Platform
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2023, 01:15:17 am »
I subscribed to Nebula because of the Jet Lag: The Game. The amount of effort required to produce that does not compare to any electronics channel I've seen. I can't say I know of any electronics channels that I would pay money for.

Production quality of the content in general there is way better than anything you see on TV.

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Re: How Youtubers Built a $150 Million Streaming Platform
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2023, 03:36:33 am »
Measuring success by the stock market will always give weird results.

If a company has enough cash flow to exist and pay salaries, it is a success. Investors being screwed is secondary.
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Re: How Youtubers Built a $150 Million Streaming Platform
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2023, 04:26:26 am »
But it sounds like they are pretty involved with each other and Curiosity Stream owns some part of it, so it is hard to tell whether Nebula on its own would be successful.

They are also said to be a YT competitor, but I don't think it is the case. They have carefully selected creators making well produced content. This is not some potato quality videos anyone can upload.
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Re: How Youtubers Built a $150 Million Streaming Platform
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2023, 05:41:57 am »
I subscribed to Nebula because of the Jet Lag: The Game. The amount of effort required to produce that does not compare to any electronics channel I've seen. I can't say I know of any electronics channels that I would pay money for.
Production quality of the content in general there is way better than anything you see on TV.

Agreed. And all us electronics Youtubers know it. We are lucky to get a thousand or two paying Patrons. AvE has been the only exception to that with at the time he last made his numbers public, IIRC about 12k Patrons.

I've thought about doing this with my EEVdiscover channel, but I don't think the audience is there to pay for the expense of it all  :-//
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Re: How Youtubers Built a $150 Million Streaming Platform
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2023, 05:43:44 am »
They are also said to be a YT competitor, but I don't think it is the case. They have carefully selected creators making well produced content. This is not some potato quality videos anyone can upload.

Yes, that's totally not the case. Same the Linus's Floatplane system.
I've lost count of the number of people who tell me "why don't you put your content on floatplane"?
Because it's a private subscription only service that is in no way a competitor to youtube.
 

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Re: How Youtubers Built a $150 Million Streaming Platform
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2023, 10:05:26 pm »
Hard to see it as a shocking success when the CURI SPAC is down more than 90% from IPO.

Its not a direct representation as curiosity stream has a minority share in Nebula right? Its not like Nebula is the IPO. Even if I agree with you.
Anyone that has a Nebula sub can see how many views videos get? It won't show me that I can see.

https://nebula.tv/videos
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Re: How Youtubers Built a $150 Million Streaming Platform
« Reply #7 on: June 16, 2023, 10:17:43 pm »
No, their interface is pretty bare. There are no comments, no view counts, no likes. Just the videos.
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