I think there’s some truth to that, but in my admittedly “outside-looking-in” experience, most full-time content creators have other means of raising money to operate: Patreon, merchandise, Twitch subscriptions, YT Membership, video sponsorships, etc. So I don’t think the total loss of advertising would lead to the total loss of content creators. You’d lose some, but others would survive. People like making content even when there’s no profit motive at all, it’s just less feasible to do it at an industrial scale if you don’t have more solid financial banking.
Consider Twitch subscriptions. You pay $5 to a streamer, you never see ads on their stream. No ads doesn’t mean no streamer. Likewise, streamer still streams even if you don’t subscribe, you just see the ads. As a business model, this is a little neater, tidier, than Google’s. On a technical level, it’s also better defended against adblockers since ads are injected into the stream, they’re not a separate stream you can just block.
Yes they “need” to stop adblock, but for the advertisers, not for the content creators.
Actually the other person who tried to disagree with me made a great point for my argument.
Youtube needs content creators and pays them through advertising. If advertising stopped, there would be no content creators.
So regardless of if it’s storage or bandwidth, they absolutely need to stop ad block. Otherwise no one will make content for youtube.
I think there’s some truth to that, but in my admittedly “outside-looking-in” experience, most full-time content creators have other means of raising money to operate: Patreon, merchandise, Twitch subscriptions, YT Membership, video sponsorships, etc. So I don’t think the total loss of advertising would lead to the total loss of content creators. You’d lose some, but others would survive. People like making content even when there’s no profit motive at all, it’s just less feasible to do it at an industrial scale if you don’t have more solid financial banking.
Consider Twitch subscriptions. You pay $5 to a streamer, you never see ads on their stream. No ads doesn’t mean no streamer. Likewise, streamer still streams even if you don’t subscribe, you just see the ads. As a business model, this is a little neater, tidier, than Google’s. On a technical level, it’s also better defended against adblockers since ads are injected into the stream, they’re not a separate stream you can just block.
Yes they “need” to stop adblock, but for the advertisers, not for the content creators.