The link didn’t post so I don’t know if I’ve seen it or not.
EDIT:
This is a topic that well deserves a closer look so I did some research trying to find the video you apparently tried to link to. I don’t know if I found the same one, I viewed several.
The nuts and bolts of the differences is that YouTube has orders of magnitude more reach, server speed and audience while the monetization system is much, much more profitable if you don’t use the max income features of Rumble. Even then, YouTube is considerably more profitable but the monetization schemes on Rumble are seriously problematic.
To get the top two monetization schemes Rumble offers you have to sign over all rights to everything you post. If you do that, Rumble, not you, owns your content. Meaning that the moment you upload anything to Rumble then Rumble owns it in perpetuity.
That would be an idiotic choice for an enterprise like BillWhittle.com. In order to make any money to support the business, and this IS a business, Bill and Company would have to cede all their rights to Rumble. Even then what they could make as business revenue on Rumble would be very significantly less than they can make on YouTube.
So what Bil and Company are left with is the revenue scheme that pays next to nothing yet allows them to keep their rights to their own content. Rumble is basically coercing people to give them all rights to anything posted there if they want to make more than a few pennies per video.
Obviously Bill isn’t going to sign the rights to his own content away to Rumble. There is no financial incentive to do that and there are a lot of reasons not to. The income stream from video content posted at Rumble is so minuscule as to be insignificant.
I don’t know how linked videos work for view credits and such at YouTube but I believe that posting videos here linked to Rumble instead of YouTube means those views never get credited to the enterprise. So basically BillWhittle.com is forgoing any external revenue at all from viewers who watch the video content of this site on this site when it links to Rumble.
Like I do and like many members do. I want this business to grow and thrive so the message gets out. I don’t give a flying rat’s ass if that means linking to YouTube to increase view count and thereby creating more revenue. Revenue that will be used to operate and grow the business is more important than loss of revenue just to please some of us cranky old people. Linking onsite videos to Rumble is adverse to that goal.
Of course there’s still the membership revenue but what that means is members who insist that the content here be linked to Rumble are harming rather than helping this business grow and thrive. Because they’re depriving the business of views on YouTube and insisting the content be linked and posted to Rumble.
There are, if you look at the Member Directory, thousands of members here at BillWhittle.com. Even though this enterprise posts videos to YouTube in tandem/duplicate to both platforms, that’s potentially thousands of videos that BillWhittle.com never harvests from YouTube because the videos here are linked to Rumble not YouTube.
The conclusion I draw is that Bill and Company post videos to Rumble as a favor and a concession to people who have Google Phobia. This clearly harms their overall revenue stream. I would like them to stop doing that and just take the hit on the few members who would drop out because the content here is linked to YouTube instead of Rumble.
That said, I do not make business decisions for BillWhittle.com and how they do things is really none of my business. I would like them to do whatever things it takes, within the law and reasonable morality, to increase their business revenues as much as possible. Sometimes the difference in a business between profitable sustainability and closing the doors forever is a matter of a few percent of revenue.
I want BillWittle.com to continue into the foreseeable future so my attitude is that they do what they think best for their enterprise and ignore any complaints about how they do things. I make no complaints nor demands at all. I’m just pointing out some realities.
That is odd… I linked the text with the linky thing below.
Oh, yeah, I completely get it – it’s why I’m still on facebook. That’s where the people are.
I don’t have a problem with Rumble per se and I’m rooting for it too. Where possible, where doing so doesn’t involve giving up the rights to one’s work and does not negatively affect the bottom line of a business I want to see prosper for both selfish and altruistic reasons — I think people should post to both redundantly.
Rumble needs to be more competitive and I don’t think they’re there yet. They aren’t at a place where Rumble becomes a genuinely paying proposition for the people who upload content. They’re in a sort of Catch 22 limbo business-wise. If they pay more to content providers that leaves less funds to operate.
It’s expensive as hell to do what YouTube does and just staying alive for something like Rumble can be a real challenge.
I agree in principle far more with Rumble’s policies regarding content than I do with YouTube’s. That does not change the reality of the situation at all. Dogging people to use Rumble isn’t a bit helpful either.
There will be people reached with the conservative message on Rumble who refuse to use YouTube. Mostly that’s a form of preaching to the choir but it’s harmless …
As long as it IS harmless. If it’s a matter of harming your business to please a tiny minority of customers then the focus is on the wrong customers. The business will do better without pandering to them.
As a businessman myself I learned long ago that trying to scoop up every possible customer is counterproductive. You spend too many resources on the marginal clients and that detracts from major target markets.
It ‘hurts’ to let that marginal business go because you really want to serve everyone you can. Any business needs a certain amount of volume in trade to be viable. So it’s a temptation to try to please everyone.
If you do that you feel like a good guy but it doesn’t help your business and in the end trying to be a good guy you become a bad guy. Because when that forces you out of business any good your business might have done dies with the enterprise.
This is something that it’s clear Jeremy Boring knows well. He ignores the crackpots and the crankies on the Right and just grows the business. Which reaches a lot more of the world with the conservative message than if he had gotten bogged down in the complainers and haters.
Like the Left, on the Right we have a tiny minority that is extremely loud and obnoxious. Like the Left, that high level of noise gets a lot of attention it should not and all out of proportion to its actual numbers. You even see that happening here on BillWhittle.com and this is one of the ‘purest’ of Conservative advocacies I’ve ever seen.
That’s one of the many reasons why I’m here. This is one of the few places on the internet where I can have a conversation with reasonably minded conservatives and not be drowned out by the noise made by the crackpots and the cranks.
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The link didn’t post so I don’t know if I’ve seen it or not.
EDIT:
This is a topic that well deserves a closer look so I did some research trying to find the video you apparently tried to link to. I don’t know if I found the same one, I viewed several.
The nuts and bolts of the differences is that YouTube has orders of magnitude more reach, server speed and audience while the monetization system is much, much more profitable if you don’t use the max income features of Rumble. Even then, YouTube is considerably more profitable but the monetization schemes on Rumble are seriously problematic.
To get the top two monetization schemes Rumble offers you have to sign over all rights to everything you post. If you do that, Rumble, not you, owns your content. Meaning that the moment you upload anything to Rumble then Rumble owns it in perpetuity.
That would be an idiotic choice for an enterprise like BillWhittle.com. In order to make any money to support the business, and this IS a business, Bill and Company would have to cede all their rights to Rumble. Even then what they could make as business revenue on Rumble would be very significantly less than they can make on YouTube.
So what Bil and Company are left with is the revenue scheme that pays next to nothing yet allows them to keep their rights to their own content. Rumble is basically coercing people to give them all rights to anything posted there if they want to make more than a few pennies per video.
Obviously Bill isn’t going to sign the rights to his own content away to Rumble. There is no financial incentive to do that and there are a lot of reasons not to. The income stream from video content posted at Rumble is so minuscule as to be insignificant.
I don’t know how linked videos work for view credits and such at YouTube but I believe that posting videos here linked to Rumble instead of YouTube means those views never get credited to the enterprise. So basically BillWhittle.com is forgoing any external revenue at all from viewers who watch the video content of this site on this site when it links to Rumble.
Like I do and like many members do. I want this business to grow and thrive so the message gets out. I don’t give a flying rat’s ass if that means linking to YouTube to increase view count and thereby creating more revenue. Revenue that will be used to operate and grow the business is more important than loss of revenue just to please some of us cranky old people. Linking onsite videos to Rumble is adverse to that goal.
Of course there’s still the membership revenue but what that means is members who insist that the content here be linked to Rumble are harming rather than helping this business grow and thrive. Because they’re depriving the business of views on YouTube and insisting the content be linked and posted to Rumble.
There are, if you look at the Member Directory, thousands of members here at BillWhittle.com. Even though this enterprise posts videos to YouTube in tandem/duplicate to both platforms, that’s potentially thousands of videos that BillWhittle.com never harvests from YouTube because the videos here are linked to Rumble not YouTube.
The conclusion I draw is that Bill and Company post videos to Rumble as a favor and a concession to people who have Google Phobia. This clearly harms their overall revenue stream. I would like them to stop doing that and just take the hit on the few members who would drop out because the content here is linked to YouTube instead of Rumble.
That said, I do not make business decisions for BillWhittle.com and how they do things is really none of my business. I would like them to do whatever things it takes, within the law and reasonable morality, to increase their business revenues as much as possible. Sometimes the difference in a business between profitable sustainability and closing the doors forever is a matter of a few percent of revenue.
I want BillWittle.com to continue into the foreseeable future so my attitude is that they do what they think best for their enterprise and ignore any complaints about how they do things. I make no complaints nor demands at all. I’m just pointing out some realities.
That is odd… I linked the text with the linky thing below.
Oh, yeah, I completely get it – it’s why I’m still on facebook. That’s where the people are.
Still, I’m rooting, somehow, for rumble.
I don’t have a problem with Rumble per se and I’m rooting for it too. Where possible, where doing so doesn’t involve giving up the rights to one’s work and does not negatively affect the bottom line of a business I want to see prosper for both selfish and altruistic reasons — I think people should post to both redundantly.
Rumble needs to be more competitive and I don’t think they’re there yet. They aren’t at a place where Rumble becomes a genuinely paying proposition for the people who upload content. They’re in a sort of Catch 22 limbo business-wise. If they pay more to content providers that leaves less funds to operate.
It’s expensive as hell to do what YouTube does and just staying alive for something like Rumble can be a real challenge.
I agree in principle far more with Rumble’s policies regarding content than I do with YouTube’s. That does not change the reality of the situation at all. Dogging people to use Rumble isn’t a bit helpful either.
There will be people reached with the conservative message on Rumble who refuse to use YouTube. Mostly that’s a form of preaching to the choir but it’s harmless …
As long as it IS harmless. If it’s a matter of harming your business to please a tiny minority of customers then the focus is on the wrong customers. The business will do better without pandering to them.
As a businessman myself I learned long ago that trying to scoop up every possible customer is counterproductive. You spend too many resources on the marginal clients and that detracts from major target markets.
It ‘hurts’ to let that marginal business go because you really want to serve everyone you can. Any business needs a certain amount of volume in trade to be viable. So it’s a temptation to try to please everyone.
If you do that you feel like a good guy but it doesn’t help your business and in the end trying to be a good guy you become a bad guy. Because when that forces you out of business any good your business might have done dies with the enterprise.
This is something that it’s clear Jeremy Boring knows well. He ignores the crackpots and the crankies on the Right and just grows the business. Which reaches a lot more of the world with the conservative message than if he had gotten bogged down in the complainers and haters.
Like the Left, on the Right we have a tiny minority that is extremely loud and obnoxious. Like the Left, that high level of noise gets a lot of attention it should not and all out of proportion to its actual numbers. You even see that happening here on BillWhittle.com and this is one of the ‘purest’ of Conservative advocacies I’ve ever seen.
That’s one of the many reasons why I’m here. This is one of the few places on the internet where I can have a conversation with reasonably minded conservatives and not be drowned out by the noise made by the crackpots and the cranks.