Comment by sharperguy
1 year ago
Why can youtube not just give a micropayments backed API? Just charge a few cents per video download and be done with it.
1 year ago
Why can youtube not just give a micropayments backed API? Just charge a few cents per video download and be done with it.
meanwhile Youtubers: a penny per view would be 10x what Youtube pays us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nloigkUJ-U&t=4851s
The YouTube RPM (revenue per mille) strongly depends on the location of the audience and the topic of the video. It could be anywhere from $0.5 to $20. That 10x figure could very well be true for that YouTuber, but it's also true that other YouTubers already earn more than a penny per view.
They do. It's called YouTube Premium.
It's not though. You can't download an mp4 to use however you wish with YouTube Premium. And definitely not via an API.
None of that was mentioned in the comment?
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AFAIK Premium allows you to download to persistent browser storage. But is it DRM-free/open or usable format?
It's DRM-ed and somewhat broken.
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