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Jon Stewart’s Apple TV Plus show ends, reportedly over coverage of AI and China (www.theverge.com)
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[–] -4 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Why does he need a contract. He can just make a YouTube channel and start making money from ad revenue (I know it's not much), sponsors, patreon, memberships and so on.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That would not be sustainable long term for this type of show, he's not a single youtube content creator with maybe 1-3 editors, he has a buttload of staff who presumably get paid professional wages and his team uses a buttload of expensive professional equipment and has to do a buttload of expensive legwork and research and so on.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    You mean like Linus media group and other big YouTube channels? Those, too, have buttload of whatever you mentioned. Anyway, I'll stop here. I really hate arguing online.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    LMG has slowly built up their YouTube audience over many years and grew their revenue along with it, you couldn’t just plop down an unknown Linus Media Group cold onto YouTube today and succeed. In addition to that Linus Media Group relies on a metric shit-ton of short and long form content output, which isn’t the format of what is essentially a talk show.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Stewart is already a very well known dude and he can build his audience in a very short time. Linus started from zero. Jon is starting from 1000. He won't need to build anything. He'll only a couple of social media posts and he'll have millions of subs. Anyway, this is moot. He will still do his own thing. He doesn't even know who I am anyway. Lol

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Moving an audience between two internet platforms isn’t as easy as you think, much less moving between TV and internet.

    And that still wouldn’t solve the whole issue of YouTube not being designed around TV show long-form content. You can’t just lift and shift a talk show to YouTube and expect it to make the same money. The volume of content LMG has to put out on a daily basis is nuts. They’re constantly working on on a dozen project at once, need multiple hosts, and even multiple channels with themed content.

    You’re comparing apples and oranges don’t seem to understand the glaring differences between these two things lol.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    He needs a contract to make money. Putting his episodes on YouTube without being paid to do it would benefit Google.

    The message he’s sending is: “if you want my show, pay me”.

    The $250 he would earn with Adsense on YouTube is irrelevant.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    You answered your own question. Not having to deal with all those different revenue streams is worth something and I'm sure Apple offered him more than he'd get that way, too

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Millions of creators are "dealing" with them just fine. Not sure what so hard about setting up a patreon account or coordinating with sponsors. Pretty sure it is much easier than dealing with a multi-trillion dollar corporation. It just feels wrong he's putting his voice behind a paywall where many people could just benefit from it if it were on YouTube.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Millions of actors get by performing in local theaters but George Clooney probably wouldn't take that gig. Jon Stewart is not on the same level as YouTubers. I can't imagine he'd even make half of his contract on YouTube

    It just feels wrong he's putting his voice behind a paywall where many people could just benefit from it if it were on YouTube.

    I get what you mean here and agree with the sentiment. I just can't blame him for taking the significantly better deal

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I am by no means hating on the man. I love his work and admire his courage to face assholes and call them out on their bullshit. Hence I want to be able to see his episodes on YouTube. And I do understand he needs to get paid. I'm just stating my point of view, no hate or judgement. Not everyone can afford subscription/wants a subscription through a huge corporation. Many, many people would be more than happy to pay the creators directly. I do. I don't want this to spiral into an argument.

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