I’m a full-time content creator. I feel like patreon/newsletters/paid communities are more hassle than anything.
When I look at the pros and cons of every single revenue strategy, sponsorships has the highest gain and least cons (for me).
Sponsors pay at least 10x what ad revenue pays, I don’t have to ask my community for money and the audience are likely to skip the ad anyway if they didn’t want to watch it.
Patreon is great in theory, but as soon as sponsors start inquiring, you realize Patreon is a lot more work for less revenue.
Personally YouTube is ruined for me because of sponsorships. It just became advertisement packaged as content.
I understand from an economical perspective why people do it, but I can't shake the feeling that the content is just an excuse and the ad is the meat of the content.
I really can't do that if I was him, because it means I have to lie.
Latest news I read about amazon is that they were banned from lobbying in the EU parlement for refusing to answer to allegations regarding their labor practices.