incredibly funny of people to be peeved abt watcher leaving YouTube that takes 30% of profits on membership payments off the bat & moving to their own streaming service so they can host their video content at a smaller cost on a different platform & pay the new hires & additional show theyre putting on with presumably less 3rd party ads & potentially without the need for the patreon which also scrapes anywhere between 5-12% off patron support without the additional charge for payment processing.
Selling out isn't starting a new streaming service, it's where they do paid promotions in the middle of their shows & have to edit their content to appeal to keeping old and getting new sponsors, which funny enough...
Just say this isn't a financial decision you or you and a password sharing buddy can make & move on, there's no shame in that
i have been hearing the term “over-produced” so much when it comes to watcher and i cant remember this argument having ever had legs when they were posting their content on yt for free like, is it only over-produced now that they’re asking their audience to pay them?
i have never come out of a ghost files or dish granted or too many spirits or puppet history video saying “man this was way over produced”
All the people who were like 'we didn't want high production value we just wanted you guys bantering' are sooo full of shit like ok I've got good news for you they have a whole podcast where they do that just sit in a room and banter and it's separate from the steamer and it comes out every week so you could watch them banter every monday for free...oh wait you don't watch/listen to pod watcher? That's not good enough for you...hmm curious.....
Interviewer: So you've announced that you're doing your own streaming platform correct? What's going to change really you know?
Ryan: For Ghost Files, I mean it's kind of the thing that's going to allow us to take bigger swings like we did this season, like going international, upgrading some of our kit, and just overall making the show better and more sustainable behind the scenes 'cuz it's a really hard show to make. And then as far as like other series it's going to allow us to make those a little bit better but also allow us to make new series in general, and also bring on new faces to the to the channel that we haven't previously been able to.
YouTube is like a little bit of a harder place sometimes for that kind of content to survive…sometimes if something isn't getting the proper amount of views that it would need it wouldn't survive perhaps in that environment but on a different environment, perhaps our own platform, then maybe it will have a better chance and now that we have both it'll allow us to, I guess, really give everything a try.
But really more than anything it's just about improving things across the board and then taking bigger risks on our shows.
Ryan & Shane Talk The Future of Ghost Files & Watcher Streaming Platform, posted on GAMINGbible, 25 April 2024