YouTube’s attempts to clean up its act have set loose a wave of confusion and drawn the ire of most of the site’s hardcore fans and popular channels. And there’s one site that wants to swoop in and see if it can siphon off some of YouTube’s billion users a month.
Vidme is best known as being YouTube with fewer DMCA challenges, and today the site posted a video that explicitly makes clear that it’ll welcome any profanity laden, rude, advertiser-unfriendly channel that cares to post on it. Complete with Statue of Liberty and electric guitar solo, it wants users to start their own, in their words, “f***ing awesome channel.”
Vidme is fairly popular on Reddit, mostly thanks to its small team and lax rules, but depending on how YouTube’s demonetization scandal unfolds, the video site could benefit greatly, especially as it encourages producers to post both on Vidme and elsewhere to maximize their exposure. The main issue, from a financial angle, appears to be that it’s not entirely clear just how you make money on Vidme:
We’re working hard on finding new ways to help you earn more cash from your videos, including ad revenue sharing, licensing, fan rewards and daily prizes. Since the Creator Program is still pre-launch, the specifics aren’t available just yet, but sign up here, and you’ll be the first to know when they are.
Similarly, the site’s traffic of 35 million visitors a month is dwarfed by YouTube’s billion users. Still, it’s hardly chump change. And, depending on how the revenue system works, it could be beneficial to creators getting demonetized. It’s worth remembering that demonetized videos are still on YouTube, they’re just not making money, but that alone might be a big enough deal for Vidme to come out on top.
(Via Vidme)