Facebook plans to pay creators $1B to use its products
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At least edge is out now so that's not so bad.
Product name-drops are just one thing, the corporate placement also cares about how it is used and by whom.
Apple says you can't put an iPhone in a villain's hand and indirectly gives away the plot of Knives Out.
FB makes money by packaging up and sharing user content as bait for paid ads. While it's reasonable for FB to keep some of the ad revenue, to offset the infrastructure and recurring costs of running the system, without user-generated content there'd be nothing for social media companies to offer to advertisers to get attention.
In short, every kitten picture uploaded to FB is worth something. It's not free for the user to upload, either, at least not when the externalities of having home internet are counted.
FB revenue sharing should include every user, according to network effects value added, not just the "content creators", who are usually already getting paid by sponsors for shilling whatever.
Only because it’s 1989 and you are using a v23 modem.
There's of course power imbalance, and it's valid to talk about who gets more value of it, and how that should be balanced. But let's not pretend that users get nothing in return.
That's what the social media companies would like everyone to believe. The reality is that the service that social media provides is eyeballs for advertisers, taking the attention of users and directing it to paid promotions. It's not clown fish and sea anemone, It's more like tongue-eating louse and snapper.
There are several "High viewership count twitch streamers" who moved to Facebook because they got a much better offer. DisguisedToast, KingSlayer, Corinna Kopf etc.
Also there is still a difference between someone like Asmongold who pulls 100k viewers and has fuck you amount of money and others with 5-10k viewers. 5-10k makes you a 1% on Twitch but you are still on another league from Asmon, Shroud etc.
Last but not least seasonal fluctuation is real for a lot of streamers see the current WoW worlds first race where the racing guild memebers are having 30-50k viewers but that's gone next week when the race is over.
Seems a bit cheating to combine Douyin and TikTok download numbers even if they are nearly identical apps.
They spent $1B on influencer marketing through IG / FB.
Yeah,unlike when people vicariously through fake tv personalities/ book personalities/ theater?