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I know there are gamer girls on sites like Fansly and OnlyFans that stream their gaming sessions in the same way they would on Twitch. I wonder what the engagement and income is for them on those sites versus Twitch or YouTube.
EDIT: I just watched Zara Dar’s PornHub video on Loss Functions. Her delivery is a tad robotic but the content is informative.
omfg i remember running into this video like about a year ago. legit good study material :^] (no but fr better than some of my professors). There are also cybersecurity guides but ehh… they all stopped posting.
This is another sign of how youtube’s story of “we’ve never made a profit” is bogus. More and more organisations are advertising on youtube, youtube is pushing the limits on the amount of advertising that viewers can stand & at the same time they’ve started paying creators less.
It looks like they’ve really started abusing their market position in the last few years: more income and less expenditure. And it’s probably no coincidence that there are no financial figures for youtube alone.
Someone did the math and estimated YouTube would cost $2bn in cloud costs (i.e. no creator payments) if hosted on AWS.
Does that include the storage costs of the existing exabytes of videos, plus the terabytes of new videos being uploaded every day?
AWS is incredibly expensive, if you’re hosting something like GitHub or Netflix on them instead of just owning the servers, you’re incredibly dumb
I found an estimate of annual expenditures of 3.25 billion, without content payouts, but with engineering/legal/moderation costs. As 2024 revenue I found back 36 billion from advertising & 14.5 billion from subscriptions. Forbes had an article where Google claimed to have paid out $70bn in 2021-2023 to content creators, this number probably includes subscriptions. In those 3 years youtube had an ad revenue of 89.5 billion, but I have no number for subscriptions. These are all very opaque numbers. Based on these opaque numbers, I’d guesstimate youtube’s profit margin at 42%, which I find excessive.
$36bn ad revenue + $14.5bn subscriptions: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/
$3.25bn annual expenditures: https://www.clrn.org/how-much-does-youtube-cost-to-run/
$70bn payed out to creators from 2021 to 2023: https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/youtube-70-billion-creator-payments/
Edit, how I got to my guesstimate of 42%:
36bn ad revenue in 2024. An average of 30bn ad revenue in the 3 years prior. Estimation for the subscription income in those 3 years: 30/36 x 14.5 x 3=36 billion. 73bn expenditures & 126bn income = 53bn profit. 53/126 = 42%.
If they’ve never paid taxes then they must never have turned a profit.
Checkmate.
Her name is crossed out in the post, but not her screenshots….
Weird.
Also why we hiding the name of the YouTuber? Presumably they actually want people to find their content otherwise they wouldn’t have uploaded it.
This self-censoring epidemic is getting stupid.
They low this? Also, helps that she is well endowed, which may not have been her intention.
And the Tips are amazing.
Just the tips, eh?
Are there any video essays on PornHub? Bonus if they’re actual port with actual information.
I’m just imagining a world where YouTube is so shit and pays so poorly that most content creators move to pornhub, and it becomes a respectable place to go to learn stuff and watch video essays, more than porn
She’s very suggestive in her choice of dress in most of these videos that are on her pornhub though, so there’s that.
Oh I just checked her channel on yt and apparently she’s an onlyfans creator now, so yeah.
LOL. Visited the link and saw she has her own website too… https://zaradarz.com/
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Not available in several states.
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i really wish someone would makes a great youtube alternative that pays $1-5 cpm, but DOESN’T shut down like blip or vidme. it DOESN’T have to be a cooprative, but it should. seriously!
I tend to prefer creators who do the donation model (e.g. Patreon). The advertisement and sponsorship models create bad incentives. The donation model can too, but it’s preferable, IMO.
Storing videos, and streaming them without latency is a huge problem. Specifically if you also have to process for different resolutions and such for different devices.
Edit: I don’t know how true it is now, but in the past YouTube would have local servers and specific agreements with ISPs for higher bandwidth for them in many countries.
It’s also quite expensive. YouTube only broke even for over a decade after Google got their hands on it, and Google can afford to host the servers, and manage distribution themselves.
A new player would find it much harder in today’s landscape. When YouTube was made, it had the advantage that of not having that many viable competitors. That’s no longer the case today.
All you need to know in 1 visual, and yes that’s monthly, not yearly :
from https://substack.com/home/post/p-160984454
Compare that to the average teacher in most countries, including countries like Finland or Luxembourg which pay their teachers quite well.
Doesn’t seem like she is doing this but watching a coding tutorial with a topless girl presenting it would be much more fun. I wonder if there is a market for this
True story.
A while back I needed to learn how to tie a necktie in a double Windsor knot. Looked for some videos.
Found one with a hot girl in lingerie showing me how.
I watched it twelve times, then found another video with an old man demonstrating.
Was the old man in lingerie too?
Narrator: He was
I walked into that one, didn’t I?
Take your upvote, you magnificent swine.
Naked News
Problem with them was the bolt ons were way too common. Otherwise, they are the best objective news in Canada!
I watched that years ago and I’ve never been less turned on watching someone strip. It was just so incredibly dry and lifeless.
That must’ve been why YT allowed it
During the inception of image algorithms all the engineers started to use a playboy model.
And then kept using it for an extremely long time until basically forced to stop lol.
There’s a BobbyBroccoli video on the topic, and it’s pretty interesting.
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Decades ago ago there was a series of videos of girls teaching calculus. For example they had a girl lay down on her back and then described how to use integrals to determine the area of her boobs.
Reminds me of a math rhythm my older brother taught me when we were teens
You subtract the clothes
You add the bed
You divide the legs
And then you multiplyThis was a whole video series, I think like 6 parts. The described Calculus using girls bodies.
lol, that’s amusing.
We aren’t that base.
Are we?
Uh, guys?
I remember a sexy video teaching how to do CPR. Oh dang, found it https://youtu.be/aWNEU6bIJsk 100% sure its a reupload, I remember seeing is like, 15+ years ago (PSA: dont do CPR while sitting on top of the person please)
Maybe she’ll get flagged for appropriate content.
Hope not, that would be a crushing blow! Since I generally boycott YT, I checked out Zara Dar’s What is a Neural Network. It’s a good overview, and well presented. Ah, a look there’s a part 2. It would be great if she could hit 1M views on ProhNub, as a result of this post. Only 207K over the past year, with 2K updoots.
Since people are probably not going to PH to search for this, I wonder if she gets views from people with some kind of autoplay.
Also, she’s not the only one. At some points, Pornhub crew joked about entering competition with YT and they really don’t mind non-porn content.
Theres defintely some guys out there edging to her cleavage while shes talking
Clothing fetish is a thing
Why do you suppose people won’t go to PH? Here’s the link: https://www.pornhub.com/model/zara-dar
You gotta get a million views to earn a thousand bucks?!
A $1 CPM (per thousand impressions) is actually pretty good for a platform like Pornhub where I assume most people are logged out/incognito etc. on an adult content.
If YouTube is really only paying out $0.34 CPM to that creator, that is atrocious. They must be getting like 20% rev share.
you’re gonna have to verify on ph though
if only someone makes a great youtube alternative that pays $1-5 cpm, but DOESN’T shut down like blip or vidme. seriously!
That has been true for a while. Ever since “the adpocalypse”. I’m surprised you missed it because it felt like every YouTube creator was complaining about it for an entire year ( which I’m not really against, I just don’t give a shit about YouTube inside baseball).
That’s why every video now has " brought to you by… Whatever" in the middle of it.
YouTube creator was complaining
Yeah I don’t invest much time into addressing youtuber complaints. But I’ll take what you said at face value.
They’re working class in the entertainment industry, their complaints are as valid as any other laborer.
I thought being a creator on youtube was about tricking people into doing massive amounts of video editing for very little pay.
Absolutely true. There isn’t a single content creator that knows how to edit their videos. This demanding task can only be done by people who don’t create content. For every successful content creator, there are three broke editors adding JL cuts in iMovie.
It’s also a machine that thrives on manufacturing drama for clicks. And I just won’t engage in the ‘meta drama’ around any community.
Working conditions and payment disputes are not “meta drama” and more than a “community” it’s an industry of freelancers. You may not care for it but independent entertainment is a huge part of our culture right now, in terms of hours watched per day and revenue generation. It’s a parallel arm of the gig economy, uncontracted workers entirely at the mercy of huge media companies and the fickle public.
The channel is real:
pornhub.com/zara-dar(And I don’t want that other site in my history, so I’m not looking it up.)
oh yeah, only way Im browsing youtube is with a vpn and incognito on
lol
