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3 Reasons Most Internet Video Should Be Free

Lessons from a recent YouTuber misstep

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Chris Martin
Apr 25, 2024
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Watcher is a YouTube channel run by a few guys who left Buzzfeed to start their own project in 2020. In the last couple of weeks, they made an announcement on their YouTube channel that elicited a pretty negative response from their viewers and fans.

Watcher announced that because of declining ad revenues, despite increasing views, and a desire to do mo…

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