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by devrand 2830 days ago
Or the lack of anyway to monetize your content other than link to a method for accepting donations.
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Content creators on PeerTube could do in-video product endorsements.. that's already a fairly standard practice on YouTube, which does support monetization.
It's a bit of chicken and egg problem though. To get in video endorsements, you need to get very popular. To get very popular, you need a more popular platform than peertube.
It depends. You obviously need a millions of subscribers to promote the 'appetite suppressant' lollipops - and you need a TV to promote the new life insurance brand. But to triple the sales of HackRF, a couple of thousands niche auditory is enough.
Sponsorships are only one form of monetization. The competitive feature for content creators here is ad revenue sharing.

The only thing I got from reading this write up is that it will be pretty easy for someone to create their own instance and throw ads on someone else's content.

It seems like for many creators on youtube the ad revenue sharing is no longer a notable source of their income.
For the top 1% of the top 1% maybe. Keep in mind that this is long tail distribution and many creators rely on ad revenue.

That long tail is what drives growth for these platforms anyways.

Most YouTubers now use Patreon, in-video ads, referral codes, etc.

Plenty of huge YouTubers don't use any YT ads at all.

All (well, almost all) the videoblogging in China is monetized by direct donations.
Which payment processors do they use? Is it managed by the video hosting platform or a direct transfer via e.g. WeChat Pay/Alipay?
The amount of money you make off youtube ads has fallen off a cliff, almost all big content makers rely on patreon these days.

Even for millions of views on a video its typically less than $100

Is there a source for this? It wouldn't surprise me but I'd like to read more about it.