So, rather than having some revenue coming in from YouTube, they’d rather force everyone to use their own website? Do they not understand that not everyone watches YouTube on a computer? Some exclusively use the YouTube app on their phones, TVs, or game consoles.
I dunno. It’s not as if it costs them anything to host the videos on YouTube. Seems odd to completely cut off a revenue source like that.
And, as far as I’ve always known, those apps are awful. I haven’t checked in awhile though.
The trouble is, if the have the content on YouTube, people will just watch that - even if RT asks them not to. People will always take the most comfortable path to a goal, if they only host on their site, then anyone who wants to watch their stuff has to go on their apps or their website.
Basically they’re betting that they have a loyal enough fan base to follow them off YouTube, but recognizing that they won’t do it if they don’t have to. Whether or not their viewership stays is another question, but honestly it’s not that out there. I feel like people have already forgotten that this is how the internet worked for most of its history. Some Gen Z folks are just gonna have to learn how to use more than one app to consume all their content
And also that people fed up with it being missing from YouTube don’t just start reuploading them without permission.
We need an RSS-like feed of websites like this that you can watch from a centralized feed. That’d be cool.
That way you could “subscribe” to a website and have their videos aggregate on to a single video library app, just like how RSS is for content feeds. RSS does not handle video though, and I want to avoid actually going to the source website.
theoretically they could provide an embedded video link I suppose and the centralized viewer could use that.
The trouble is that most content creators like RT aren’t going to want that either, because the whole point is that they want to be able to serve ads and whatnot to pay the bills - plus they’d very much prefer people go to their site so that they continue watching RT content, instead of just watching one thing and moving on. Ultimately the “perfect” solution is going to have to strike a middle ground between what consumers want and creators need
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rooster Teeth has moved some of its popular content, including most Red vs. Blue seasons, off the YouTube platform entirely and onto its own website.
Rooster Teeth senior writer and showrunner for RWBY Kerry Shawcross posted a video on Thursday announcing the change, explaining that “YouTube revenue is just not cutting it for us right now.”
Shawcross said Rooster Teeth also moved Camp Camp to the site, where episodes will continue to be ad-supported and free to watch.
He added Rooster Teeth gets “approximately 5 – 10 times more value” from ads it runs on its own website, adding that “animation’s hard and it’s expensive.”
He didn’t say specifically what was moved or when, but multiple threads on Reddit from the second half of September say that most of the Red vs. Blue series appeared to have disappeared from YouTube.
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The ancient halo comedy sketch thing? They weren’t still making those, surely?
Could the advert revenue not be decreasing because fewer people are watching old niche Halo content these days?
Ah well either way, I wish them the best. Those videos certainly gave me a bit of a chuckle :-)
The final season™ is in production now after a couple year hiatus.
Main storyline ended back in like 2014 iirc, then they had an anthology non-Canon season of a bunch of different animation styles which was really neat, and then like 3 seasons of weird virtual production unreal engine stuff that I don’t think is Canon?
Either way it’s still being made, but it’s the end. Allegedly.
I believe I saw they were still making them recently.
Also they may be talking about ad revenue per view, which would take into account decreased viewership
They should post one last video to YouTube that is just Church saying “hhhhhhhnnnnnng… bleh”
What?
Yeah the headline reads like a schizophrenic wrote it.
I understand they are english words but this makes no sense to me.
We need you to go to the store and get two quarts of elbow grease… and, uh, pick up some… headlight fluid for the Puma too.
Look, I know you don’t know me, but you have to believe what I’m about to tell you. Sometime in your future, I get stationed here in Blood Gulch and we meet. And this guy here, he gets promoted to Sergeant of the red army and we spy on them. And they get this new jeep and I’m all like, “There is no way you can pick up chicks in a tank!”
