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Quite right. I’d wear them if they were free. Regardless of how much they strangulated my sack and tackle.
my POV as a youtuber:
I cant wait to monetise my Youtube channel. I currently have 800 subscribers (cant monetise with youtube ads until you reach 1000 subscribers) but i will only use those annoying 5 second adverts before the video plays.
My videos are boring as shit, (i get a hell of a lot of views, but its not entertainkng enough to subscribe) - you never see my face and you only ever see two hands and a soldering iron doing guitar/bass wiring tutorials. Does the job.
but it works... the videos pay for themselves. I wont ask for patreon sponsorship because i only
publish 1-2 videos a month. Pretty half arsed...I use youtube to generate website traffic and sell wiring kits...it works. Im not interested in establishing a “channel” You’d be amazed at the amount of orders i get from the USA, incredibly ironic given every component i use is manufactured in the states.
All of my videos are filmed on an iphone and a tripod that i got from a chinese ebay seller for £5.00!
Basically, my videos cost next to nothing to produce apart from the time taken.
so for a channel the size of Andertons....with all
their high end gear, recording,
editing and of course, the guitarists...im not suprised. Their brand has grown an enormous amount due to their youtube channel. Without youtube, i imagine theyd be your average guitar store. Why not cash in on it?
Fwiw, large youtube channels (im going to use Crimson guitars as an example) offer the patreon sponsor thing) and it doesnt amount to a massive amount at all. And i believe that tje Crimson channel offers more value to the viewer than most. DIY videos are great.
though personnally i wouldnt pay. you still get the same content - the only benefit you get is “extra” “behind the scenes” content which whilst cool, youd have to be a superfan of the brand to give enough of a crap to actually pay for.
https://sixstringsupplies.co.uk/
Our YouTube Channel for handy "How-To" Wiring Tutorials
And that includes all the guys who call themselves reviewers (instead of demonstrators) being sent pedals and being told they can keep them but who maintain that going on every jolly said distributors send you on doesn't compromise their integrity.
I'd be far more likely to sponsor someone who produces independent and unbiased reviews without recompense or remuneration from makers/distributors/shops.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
My point is the usual dealer kicking that we all seem to revel in on this forum pops up again in the
“Company that is trying to make money in honest, upfront, optional money making idea shock”
To every one of you out there who works for a company that makes a profit - if your business stops trying to make money wherever and whenever it can, you will be out of a job. That’s the way capitalism works.
THAT's the way capitalism works.
EDIT: I have no issue with people being paid to sell products. I have no problem with the likes of Pete Thorn or Mike Hermans being paid to demo pedals.
I have an issue with people pretending to be reviewing when they are pushing product.
Andertons does what it does well enough. Which is to make adverts for the stuff it wants to sell. I don't think those videos warrant a new business model.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Specially if they sold “preloved” ones..
So I'm 'tea bagging' Lee Anderton? or is he 'tea bagging' me?
There's another UK based show that asks for money via Patreon "to help them to keep going" but how many new £5k guitars a month do they need to keep going??
*If* they truly want to migrate the content into something actually useful in ways other than convincing you to buy a product, it may work in the longer term. As people have mentioned, artist interviews and tutorials could well be worth the money.
But asking people to pay for their existing advertorial content is a bit wishful thinking.