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YouTube offers popular podcasts $50K in cash to pivot to video

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Bunch of podcasts I watch moved to rumble, locals.com and a couple to odysee. Dan Bongino, Viva and Barnes, etc.

Google controls the news by demonetizing and age restricting podcasters. So podcasters who make a living on youtube basically have no 1st amendment rights...

I recommend youtube plugin PocketTube, you can group your favorite channels into feeds, more like classic cable network. Puts videos back into feeds by new, and I get an unfiltered and non-controlled feed.

I did the same with facebook, put my favorite groups into rss feeds, stopped facebook from curating my feeds.

Always thought an RSS feed site from youtube channels, would take over the front end of google, and free the content, and stop curation.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pockettube-youtube...

It's an interesting move, but I'd evaluate a pivot to YouTube as a business risk given their automated demonetizations. It's likely better in this situation as they'd have a dedicated rep responsible for the 50k check, but it's still something I'd be wary of.

Interesting move... unpopular opinion here, sometimes I wish some youtube channels would pivot to audio. A lots of them are interesting, but I simply can't make time to watch them. However, I do have some spare time in my comute for audio form content.

That opinion may be unpopular with YouTube but I absolutely would love it. There is a ton of great content that really doesn’t need video.

Its not too much of a stretch. Youtube music has an option to turn of video (for music that is video based, live concerts for example).

the amount of youtube I watch minimized is really amazing. If they had an audio only option that I could listen to while I run I would actually consume more of their content...you could even feed me audio specific ads.

YouTube premium supports background playback. Or if you have an Android phone, you can try YouTube Vanced.

Not for long, though: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/13/22975890/youtube-vanced-a...

newpipe on android lets you switch to another app or turn off the screen while something is playing

also if you tap "background" it will stop the video stream but keep playing the audio, but im not 100% sure does it just pause the video on screen but keeps downloading it, or whether it actually switches to an audio only stream.

I'm fairly sure it's just the audio stream. When I have a limited connection the audio stream will work but the video will fail to load.

I specifically listen to podcasts at times when I can't watch things. I don't think there are any I'd find interesting enough to watch as a video production.

Some videos are comprehensible via just the audio, and I listen to one or two, but I think that to really attract whatever it is YouTube wants they'll have to be more specific to the video medium.

Video killed the radio star, unfortunately this sort of transition may hurt content in the name of more attractive faces.

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