Please Name a Successful Website Rewarding Content Creators
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I'll wait.
How about sites designed for Authors to publish their work? I know there are some, but I don't know the model. I can't name one of them off the top of my head.
It isn't because it hasn't been tried. It is a difficult business model.
Here are a few that didn't succeed
- Newsvine - I was active on Newsvine when it did pay, I received about $120 per month.
- TSU - Google this one the story is amazing.
- Digg - Another very interesting story they are still alive, but with a different model.
There are a lot more people who want to create content than there are people wanting to pay for content and this is why the most common result is ad sales and traffic.
What if we can stumble on a hybrid model which uses businesses and traffic to support not only Content Creators but dApps and Bidding Bots and People who want to share things that advertisers would not want to support?
What if SteemMonsters ends up keeping investors here and allowing your content to be seen. If they create traffic and sales, and possibly even investment, isn't that a win/win?
In any case paying Author's for Content is a tricky business model and in my opinion requires a source of income.
If you don't like ads, and spam, or businesses, I am just curious what you think will prop up the price of Steem, and what audience will content creators have?
I am not saying you don't have a good idea of how this can expand and be sustained. I'm just interested in hearing how you picture it working. It's rainy Saturday and I am just sitting around overthinking things.
A strong user base will prop up the price of Steem. There is a lot of strength in numbers and eventually I think we will see strong numbers. It might take another year or two but it should happen. More users also equals more potential investors.
There are already a few advertisers on here but more users will = more advertisers spending more money.
There are many websites that pay users, including:
Who pays with cryptocurrency:
Who pays with cryptocurrency: Also yours.org, I believe.
Patreon is the obvious one.
18 years ago I invented a new methodology for paying short fiction writers and even though I only did it for two years others picked it up and it's still going strong in its little way, which is a little weird. Maybe I'll write about that at some point. I get a lot of the same feeling here, like we've discovered a new technology that will allow us to build systems with very differently-characterized overhead costs than we've ever seen before. And there will be ways to turn that to our advantage.
To piggyback off your article... i do love Steemit (and see how it can pay very well).
Here's my question: Do you see it as a viable platform for us as content creators to have greater exposure of our talent & reaching our ideal audience? (Or... should we just use Steemit primarily to make money from upvotes & bots?)
It's an honest question, i promise.
I absolutely see it as a platform that gives content creators an audience, money, and a place to practice your craft, get feedback both in comments and rewards. I love that part of it.
I just don't think it pays the bills long-term on any model I can imagine.
I am hoping people will see that we need a mixture of content, business and a way to hold an audience as well! :)
I love SteemIt also.
Thx for your speedy reply. You nailed it on the head with each of your points too. I just needed some feedback from someone like you, who's been on Steemit for a while, as I've switch over to blogging exclusively here. Blessings on your content creation & relationship-building within the platform. 😊
Although most dont make alot on there blogs it is more than they would make anywhere else (unless they are a proffesional blogger, which most of us arent). I see it as a fun place to meet new people write about stuff I enjoy and earn a bit of extra pocket money :)
That's a good key to put into the mix -- about community, etc. 'Blog commenting' isn't what it used to be, even 5 years ago. Even on popular blogs, the commenting has gone way down. But for Steem... there sure is a fresh interaction that's very cool in deed.
Yeah the community here is quite unique in that respect! Lots of great interactions going on here
I think Steemit has a pool of people who will read others' blogs, and who will go out of their way to LOOK for other blogs to read. If I was just writing on a blogging platform like wordpress, who would read it? How would I entice people to come over and take a look? On Steemit, there's a willing audience.
For what it’s worth, I think that it’s all going to be about Smart Media Tokens. A decade or two from now when a history of the Steem blockchain is written, the pre-SMT phase of the Steem universe will be an historical curiosity, likes the period of Romulus and the six other kings of Rome before the founding of the Roman Republic.
I think a general reversal of the cryptocurrency market is going to carry Steem up, especially when people realize that they can earn rewards here.
However, I think in order to really take off we need things like smt and hivemind to work well.
I agree, we are more likely to rise on Crypto than any reasonable market expectations!
Youtube.com
Agreed, but through ads.
the ad system on youtube is broken, even top channels are saying ads don't pay out enough to live on anymore.
It was never sustainable. They always paid out more than they could afford in order to facilitate growth. That's the real motivation for the demonetization controversy.
Im starting to enjoy Youtube less because of the ads - there seems to be more and more! I know you can pay for Youtube red to remove the ads - but cant bring myself to do that - but I guess its the same as Spotify you can use it for free but I pay to remove the ads and get the extra benefits.
Lets hope Dtube grows to compete in the long run
It's not broken. It's called competition. More players enter a market it will become more competitive to get value in return because more can produce the work. To compete you have to increase your output of value to the market place.
steepshot.io
Is a d.app where you can earn on photo and media content. I have not used them much, not sure if it classifies as "succesful."
It's built on Steem! Let's hope they are successful!
That is correct! I think it's important to support these projects, like many others that are built upon steem, because they ultimately raise the transaction and market cap of the the STEEM blockchain network. That means a higher valuation of STEEM tokens.
Cheers mate.
I am now following you.
I hope they add HD photos someday. Something that makes me stay away is that lack of quality. Blog photos are in higher quality
I enjoyed my time on Tsu, but they couldn't make it cover their costs. They gave 90% of the ad revenue to users, but their 10% was not enough for a team in New York. I know a few people made a lot of money there. I made a few hundred over less than two years.
Steem Monsters is a good idea. Users can play, collect , chat and have fun.
Maybe Steemit should open up a Steem Casino.
Now theres an idea haha - so many people like to gamble and theres no real rules on here - theres lucksacks poker which is a good start :)
Someone should make a Slot Staking Coin. While staking with your wallet, you can burn the coins playing a slot.
This is part of what makes Steem so brilliant and enjoyable! No ads (well paid ads anyway :P) - and even then the 'ads' that people write are random and sometimes actually interesting. I hate seeing ads that seems to peer into my soul and know everything about me - its a bit creepy
Humans are ads. It's just more smooth and targeted ads. Every human is a personal brand. And they market themselves out to the world. The new market place will still have ads but just more smooth and low key ads. Instead of annoying obvious in your face ads.
YouTube?
Mostly supported by ad revenue.
Also, a much better system than YouTube because you have to create content that is actually good and requires hard work because it’s measured through views - and not by you sucking the right cock.
I see Steemit as a means of developing my writing skills and inspiring others with my daily motivational and inspiring posts.
Hope to see you at my blog @orisfina at all.
Thanks
None other than steemit.com, but there's a little problem with the content creator and curator. Here only those are getting paid who buy their vote from bid bots. But those who're actually trying to write something worth reading get nothing than consuming their precious time.
Its more complicated than that - I have bought votes in the past and for me they havent been overly profitable - I cant afford to spend the ammount to get to trending!
I think that if you write good content on here and stick around long enough then people will notice and you will get recongition for your work
We have to be realistic. If you want to get massive value in return you have to generate massive value for other people. Most people do not understand what massive value means. They think it's a blog post or 2 per day. No that will never get you leverage in a competitive market place.
Yeah its already getting more and more competitive on here - you do need to offer some value and some new persepctives to have an edge here
Yes! and now the bid bots are also making fools of us. I see there was no one else except me who send bid to the bot and in return what I got for sending 9.95sbd an upvote worth 17$. I don't know what's the scene here.
True fari enough - I dont know anymore because I barely use bots now
That's the way it usually pans out.
I personally don't mind ads. If all mainstream companies like google and microsoft won't allow crypto ads then a crypto companies should fill in that gap.
From what I have seen so far, I think that a viable steem economy could come out of @steemmonsters from the buying and selling of cards. I also hope to see more mmo / rpg type games being introduced on the steem blockchain. While I'm not a big fan of bringing advertising to steemit, initiatives like @steemhunters could be good for the price of steem if product producers start actively trying to get discovered and promoted by such endeavors.
Interesting...I haven't heard of those three sites so I'll have to educate myself. I've grown rather fond of the variety here. When the fabric of my own tiny world grows stale I come here and find all manner of things to occupy my time.
https://lit.live
They pay in cryptocurrency Mithrill
Current price is around 1 mith= 0.69$
Well, if the actual model of steemit isn't long-term sustainable I will accept and support any idea or strategy or new model that complements it. I'm not currently an expert on this so I can't give an idea of a possible solution hahaha
WildSpark from Israeli Synereo pays out with their AMP currency in an interesting model by creating a layer on top of existing platforms. But it will take another 2-3 years before they are close to something that works as well as Steemit.
Ten years ago I used to write a column at a site called examiner.com. The writers would get paid according to how many page clicks and unique user visits they got.
This model encouraged writing "list" articles, like "Ten things you need to know about..." and putting each thing on a separate page, so the reader had to advance by clicking for the next page.
I didn't make much. Not sure if the site's still going even.
Here i want to share my personal opinion, before joining Steemit i tried few Websites where i shared my content but literally speaking with tremendous amount of effort and after spending hours of time i didn't received anything and that's why i am fortunate because i got introduced with this amazing Platform. And yes, every platform have to grow and they have to use some business models if people will like or not because everything is business but Steem fulfilling the both aspects means, it expanding it's business (possibly there could be some pros and cons) and also paying the rewards to content creators.
Thanks for sharing this post with us and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂
Maybe through adds on social media , Snapchat ? Youtube ? Facebook. We need to keep Steem Alive
I am not worried about our future. We will be alive, but I think people are going to have to compromise something. Either accept adds or various content, or bots, or something to keep investors motivated.
I don’t see a problem in bots , I think it’s great because not everyone can recieve. $100 payout . People build from that and I see that as an investment
Exactly. Bots has given everyone a chance at getting exposure instead of an elite controlling it. But you still need a solid personal brand that people like when you get their attention. That will say you also have to put in solid legit work.
great