The difference between Youtube and Hive is that anyone can earn here. I never made a cent on YT, but I can make $100/month here. Okay, so that is not life-changing for me, but it is if you live in Venezuela. I want to see far more people have that potential to earn.
I mean that is for sure true but the earning ceiling is extremely low on Hive and its never going to be able to support content creation on the level of anything mainstream.
Thats why I see content rewards as more of a crypto faucet. Content being proof of participation.
Also, YouTube has been running for 18 years and for 17 of those years has been owned by one of the largest, most powerful corporations in the history of humanity...
Hive doesn't want to chase after any of that because the sacrifices wouldn't be worth it... it would stop being Hive at a point not to far from where we are now, and then what would be the point for anyone to use it at all?
I've no idea what the earnings curve is like on other platforms. Do a few accounts make most of the money? I don't think we have really seen what Hive can do yet as there are so few users. It needs more pioneers to try it. We do have people with thousands of subs on YT producing good content, but they may not get too much support here yet. Some of that is down to some snobbishness about not being exclusive to Hive or part of the in crowd. I do know of comic artists who make more here than elsewhere even if it is not enough to live off.
Hive can be cliquey and that can be part of the problem. We need to get support to good content as the creators will tell others. Not that I am any sort of marketing expert. I'm just a guy with opinions :)