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globoy:
It seems to me that relying on a service you get for free to make money is always going to be a risky business model.

The companies providing these services serve their shareholders and investors.  Users of the service, whether consumers who are fed advertisements, or producers who give these companies their value, are only going to be supported as necessary to serve the company's primary interests.

And the model that most of these companies, at least in the last few years, have followed is to lose money (living on investor funding) while building a user base.  During this time their terms are very appealing.  But at some point they have to make money (or die or be acquired) and then things get much less appealing for the users.  We've seen this over and over.

Maybe you can make great money for a while and hats off if you do.  But I don't think anyone should expect that to last.  Seems to me it comes from the very nature of the business model - very different model than one where you pay money for a contracted set of services.
Fraser:
Globoy ,

An excellent analysis of the situation  :-+

I have never wanted to be a content producer on YouTube, but I have been asked many times to create a Thermal Imaging channel to benefit those interested in the topic. Whilst that is a nice idea, it takes a lot of time and effort to create the content and if there is no financial benefit for me, that is a step too far in terms of using my time. I am all for sharing knowledge, as I do here, but I do so only when I have the spare time and answering questions can be done quite quickly in many cases. Videography and editing are a completely different ball game.

As an aside, I contacted several thermal imaging camera manufacturers and offered to produce high quality technical reviews of their products at no cost to them. All of them wanted to know the details of my YouTube channel and immediately lost interest when I said that I produce written reviews for the EEVBlog forum. In order to obtain demo units for review, I would need to create a YouTube channel :(

As has been said, it is not a good idea to totally rely upon a finance stream that is provided by a free platform that can end that finance source at any time, without any recourse for the content producer.
globoy:
I've created a few youtube videos over the years and although they certainly aren't polished they were a lot of work and took a lot of time.  I did it mostly for self-promotion - with little, lol, to show for that probably.  Like you and lots of other people I have looked at people making a lot of money and wondered, "should I???".  But for me anyway, who would much rather be working on a project than spending hours and hours promoting it and myself, it never made sense.  I do the infrequent videos because I feel the world has moved away from the written word (which I much prefer because I can easily control the rate I take it in and how quickly I go through it) to video.  Young people especially.  But I'm kinda an old curmudgeon about the whole thing.

I think if you ever did any videos they should be simply because you're willing to spend the time to share your love of thermal imaging.  A passion project.  Perhaps the good thing for you is that I think your audience wouldn't be so put off by a non-super polished video.  They'd mostly be in it for the technical knowledge you'd be sharing.  I bet you'd get a lot of thumbs up.
thm_w:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/invalid-traffic-affecting-electronics-channels-on-youtube/
Fraser:
Interesting video from another content creator. He even suggests a possible cause. Could watching your own videos for QA purposes trigger the YouTube algorithm that detects invalid traffic ? According to him, YouTube confirmed that there is definitely invalid traffic on his channel but do not identify its source. It is also noted that some YouTuber found out that opening multiple browser windows on the same video created multiple advert streams and so recorded views…. They asked their viewers to do this in order to ‘go viral’ and that may have triggered YouTube to respond in a draconian manner.

https://youtu.be/0kYvkB8W_xY?si=lyXVs2A3zrvvc4cR

Fraser
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