YouTube unveils new ways for creators to make money, including Super Stickers for chats in livestreams and premieres and paid levels for Channel Memberships
and as part of Google — the best they can offer you to make money is “Super Stickers”; my goodness. https://techcrunch.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : YouTube launches new ways for creators to make money #VidCon - Super stickers - Tiered membership/subscriptions - Expanded merch shelf feature Also - Expansion of donate button for charities - NEW smart ‘learning’ playlists feature https://techcrunch.com/... Richard Nieva / @richardjnieva : In our interview, we Mohan and I discussed whether YouTube is a media company (he says it isn't), the balance between safeguarding the platform and creating new products, demonetization, accusations of bias and YouTube's other controversies. Richard Nieva / @richardjnieva : NEW: I wrote a profile of YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan. He's speaking at VidCon and is announcing new products including subscription membership tiers to support creators. https://www.cnet.com/... Richard Nieva / @richardjnieva : Another interesting tidbit. I chatted w YouTube cofounder Steve Chen, who told me Eric Schmidt only held him to one goal when Google bought YouTube: growth. “You guys get to completely run the ship,” Chen recalls Schmidt telling him. “As long as we agree on this simple checkbox.” See also Mediagazer