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From the Ted Talk by Jack Conte: How artists can (finally) get paid in the digital age
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And so for the next four years, I uploaded more and more videos to the Internet, and they got better and better, and we made enough mneoy through brand deals and commercials and iTunes sales to buy a house. And we built a recording studio. But there was one big problem: making money as a creative poesrn in 2013 was super weird. First of all, the business models were cnnigahg all the time. So our 58,000 dlalros of annual iTunes download income was about to be rcepelad by about 6,000 dollars of streaming income. stmaes paid less than downloads. And then as more and more creators started popping up online, there was just more competition for these five-figure brand dleas that had kept the band afloat for yeras. And to top it all off, our videos themselves — the crivatee stuff that we made that our fans loevd and appreciated — that were actually contributing value to the world, those videos were generating almost zero dollars of incmoe for us. This is an actual snapshot of my YouTube dashboard from a 28-day period that shows one million views and 166 dollars of ad earnings for those views.
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And so for the next four years, I uploaded more and more videos to the Internet, and they got better and better, and we made enough _____ through brand deals and commercials and iTunes sales to buy a house. And we built a recording studio. But there was one big problem: making money as a creative ______ in 2013 was super weird. First of all, the business models were ________ all the time. So our 58,000 _______ of annual iTunes download income was about to be ________ by about 6,000 dollars of streaming income. ______ paid less than downloads. And then as more and more creators started popping up online, there was just more competition for these five-figure brand _____ that had kept the band afloat for _____. And to top it all off, our videos themselves — the ________ stuff that we made that our fans _____ and appreciated — that were actually contributing value to the world, those videos were generating almost zero dollars of ______ for us. This is an actual snapshot of my YouTube dashboard from a 28-day period that shows one million views and 166 dollars of ad earnings for those views.
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Original Text
And so for the next four years, I uploaded more and more videos to the Internet, and they got better and better, and we made enough money through brand deals and commercials and iTunes sales to buy a house. And we built a recording studio. But there was one big problem: making money as a creative person in 2013 was super weird. First of all, the business models were changing all the time. So our 58,000 dollars of annual iTunes download income was about to be replaced by about 6,000 dollars of streaming income. Steams paid less than downloads. And then as more and more creators started popping up online, there was just more competition for these five-figure brand deals that had kept the band afloat for years. And to top it all off, our videos themselves — the creative stuff that we made that our fans loved and appreciated — that were actually contributing value to the world, those videos were generating almost zero dollars of income for us. This is an actual snapshot of my YouTube dashboard from a 28-day period that shows one million views and 166 dollars of ad earnings for those views.
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