Patreon for YouTube Creators - CPG Rant
Patreon is a useful tool for YouTube creators to help fund their creations. In this CPG Rant -- which is more of a "CPG explains" -- I document what Patreon is, how it works, and walk through some examples of people using it here on YouTube.
Each of the channels offered has a different way that they use Patreon:
Andrew Huang: Creating unique musical productions. / songstowearpantsto
Simone Giertz is Creating Shitty Robots, and started out using Patreon after her corporate sponsors backed away based on her profanity: / @simonegiertz
Real Engineering is creating (awesome) science videos about materials science and more: / @realengineering
Missiledine Online is creating regular YouTube Gaming Livestreams / missildineonline
Each of these channels take a different approach to the management of their Patreon channels, with different perks, reasons, etc.
This video gives you a sense of how to use Patreon for YouTube, how others are using Patreon, and gives some statistics from some channels on what they get out of it from my external observation.
If you've ever wanted to know how Patreon works for YouTube creators, this is the best summary I can provide.
Patreon is home to 311,180 creators making a living from their work through subscription payments from their fans. "It is an internet-based platform that allows content creators to build their own subscription content service. It is popular among YouTube content creators, webcomic artists, writers, podcasters, musicians, and other categories of creators who post regularly online. It allows artists to receive funding directly from their fans, or patrons, on a recurring basis or per work of art. The company, started by musician Jack Conte and developer Sam Yam in 2013, is based in San Francisco." - Wikipedia
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