Good advice. I have some of them on twitch and in discord. Unfortunately a wide section of followers do not crossover. No matter what I do they don’t seem to want to leave their home platform(YouTube).
But I feel this post. This has been my exact experience. As someone who used multiple platforms to build an audience and try and grow I have retained some crossover but at the end of the day losing that source of revenue is just too big of a hit.
I don't know how I could possibly convince youtubers not to watch my videos on youtube realistically...
>not the recipe for success GP poster thinks it is.
It's not shit advice, it's not victim-blaming like you make it out to be, and I think your tone is unwarranted.
One should play defensively around the kind of companies that treat users/creators this way; one of the only ways to take a defensive stance against large conglomerates is to seek alternative means that do not include them.
>spreading yourself thin across all possible platforms is not the recipe for success GP poster thinks it is.
More 'success', whatever you quantify that as, isn't what is implied in GPs advice; defensive poising and longevity is the implied advantage, which it turn leads itself to the success of a business in the long-term.
It isn't victim blaming when any other 'victimized' business group is advised towards multiple redundancy. It's not victim blaming when an executive officer suggests that a group invest in generators after a non-controllable black-out renders production lower than it could have been.
I get that your point is that other alternatives are un-populated, and that Mega-Corp-YouGoogle is really the only show-in-town with an audience for most creators; but let's step back and view this from afar and ask another question : "Is it healthy that there is only one venue on the entirety of the internet for this activity? Should I propagate that fact to everyone I advise and give those with power even more power by trying to push a 'truth' that no alternatives exist?"
> The opportunity costs to you of supporting multiple platforms takes away from producing content.
Yeah, a business-person who focuses on protecting the business rather than outputting product generally produces less product; the hardened business model more than makes up for that after the first 'act-of-god' proves that the redundancies that the efforts were put towards actually saved the day.
If a company is abusing you, take your business elsewhere. There are other streaming services, there are other content hosts, and there is no end to outrage against Google.
Eventually one of these services will catch, and Google's power will dwindle. It's not hopeless.
Tbh I subscribe to like 200+ youtube channels. Probably like 5 of them talk about having their regular video content on another platform. I don't watch twitch streams.
If more of the creators I cared about uploaded their videos to other platforms, I would switch.
Be the change you would like to see in the world.