For Starting You-tubers
Successful You-tubers, such as Ryan Higa and Nicko's Kitchen, have inspired many people to start their own YouTube channel as a means to a source of income and to live their dreams. These dreams can range from simply becoming famous to making a living creating film.
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The road to being a you-tuber may have been traveled by many people but it's not truly cemented. You-tube is a forever changing media form from trends to how you-tubers get paid. This week's "interview of the week" provides insights from Ryan Higa and Rob Nixon about their YouTube career. Their insights can provide vital information that a starting you-tuber should be aware as one's builds their YouTube career.
Part 1: YouTube Over TV
The interview is broken down to 2 parts. The first part provides the perspectives of Ryan and Rob's reasons to choosing YouTube over a potential TV show series.
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Ryan had been offered to do a TV series that would star him as the main character. The cost of doing the show would be for Ryan to end his YouTube career and delete his channels. In the end, Ryan chose to be loyal to YouTube and turned down the deal.
Rob Nixon actually still does a few TV gigs on the side while continuing his YouTube career. He does state that his YouTube channel is and will be his main career. Doing small TV gigs will be his way to bring more of an audience for his YouTube channel.
Part 2: The Next Five Years
In the part 2 segment, Ryan and Rob answer questions that focus around the future of their careers and YouTube itself. I feel that this was the more important part of the interview to watch. It was this portion where Ryan and Rob expressed that the main trait one needs to survive in the YouTube business is adaptation. Ryan stated that if one fails to adapt to changes, then it is his/her fault. As stated earlier, YouTube is constantly changing fast. One can only be successful in this field if one can adapt successfully.
The video also provides what Ryan and Rob would be doing if they weren't doing YouTube. Their answers may not be something you would expect. Here are some hints if you want to guess before watching the video:
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Opinion On Paying Subscription
In part 2, an interviewee asks Ryan and Rob their thoughts on YouTube making their viewers pay for subscribing YouTube channels. Ryan stresses again the importance of adaptation. He'll be willing to make any changes in his way of doing his YouTube channel to adapt to the paying-per-subscription phase if it ever became a reality.
Ryan's willing to adapt to change and change with it because of one thing: freedom. YouTube allows Ryan and many people the freedom to create original content they desire. Just so long as YouTube allows this freedom, Ryan, Rob, and others that are like-minded are willing to adapt to any changes that will go their way.
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I feel that paying for a subscription wouldn't be so bad just as long as the costs will be less than a dollar. I feel that 25 cents per year is a good rate for a subscription. The cost may be low but I feel that it is valued enough for viewers to pay to support their favorite You-tuber(s). The cost is also low enough for viewers to subscribe to as much You-tubers they want without causing adverse affects on their financial status.
YouTube can also function like Netflix and request its viewers to pay a monthly fee so they can watch and subscribe to an unlimited number of YouTube videos and channels. The problem with this change would conflict the main reason why YouTube had become successful: It's free. It's free to upload videos and also free to watch. Not making YouTube free is a business risk. It's safe to say that there is a good size of YouTube viewers that are free-loaders respectively including myself.
Interview Part 1 And 2 Links:
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