Hi @aggroed my wife Chrissy (@paperkawaii) has a really large and rapid fan base of followers on Youtube etc. Her You Tube Channel Paper Kawaii has around 320,000 active subscribers and she's made over 300 unique origami Video tutorials. (Some classic Origami but mostly new content). Currently the Paper Kawaii You Tube Channel has more than 47 million views and it's been growing exponentially.
She has a lot of other followers also spread out across the likes of Instagram, Pinterest etc. These are very active and engaged followers. She also has a Discord channel with a ton of active followers.
Whenever you type Origami related search terms into Google her films always appear near or at the top of the search results. We had a massive dip during Adpocalypse but Google loves her content so her channel survived it. Even without the Social Media and YouTube the Paperkawaii website itself gets very large daily volumes of traffic and she also has a ton (18K and rising) of subscribers to her Origami Newsletters.
https://www.youtube.com/user/paperkawaii/about
https://www.youtube.com/user/paperkawaii
https://www.pinterest.com.au/paper_kawaii
https://www.instagram.com/paperkawaii/
https://www.paperkawaii.com/
Chrissy produces 3-4 full YouTube Origami films a week and she used to be the main Origami contributor for About.com but she stopped that because she didn't have time. She's incredibly focused on Origami based content. Aside from doing the films she does really beautiful step by step instructional PDF's in Illustrator of all the steps in creating Origami and they are really cool and also insanely detailed and very clearly presented (so easy to follow and understand). You can see the illustrative style here:
https://www.paperkawaii.com/learnigami-spring-2017-27-fun-origami-models-pdf-ebook-printed/
I really want Chrissy to bring her content to Steemit and I'm sure she could bring a huge number of her existing followers and subscribers with her which would benefit the Arts Community on Steemit as a whole. It's not the Crypto or Finance crowd, more Arts and Crafts and Origami enthusiasts but I think both she and Steemit would really get on, and the benefit would be hundreds of great written and illustrated Origami tutorials and Origami video tutorials being brought onto Steemit as good creative content that is also very Google friendly in terms of search and which could be promoted across millions of YouTube views on her existing Channels and Social Media.
Would you be interested in having a chat with her on Discord? I've been trying to convince her to take a few week out and just start out on Steemit and having someone (other than me) to explain the benefits and the best strategy for transitioning the content would be great. I nearly got her a month back to start uploading to DTube but we live in Australia and we were having problems watching any content on DTube, and our upload speeds where we are are very slow and she struggles getting her existing rota uploaded you YouTube as it is every week. We're moving onto an NBN connection next week so our upload speed should treble according to Iinet so this could be really good timing.
Thank you for what you are doing with this initiative, and for everything you are doing for the Steemit Community with this and the PAL initiatives. I think it's the right thing for Steemit to have a liason to help existing YouTubers with large channels and fan bases to get over some of their reservations or misunderstandings of how to integrate what they already do but on Steemit instead. Steemit can seem unnecessarily complicated to new adopters of the platform.
Regardless of this have a Happy Xmas and a wonderful 2018!
Yes 100%. Let's make this happen. Let's talk through minnowpond.org (our discord link). We can try to get her on a show on Sunday Jan 7th just to say hi and meet. But let's also aim to get her on a Youtube forum I'm doing on Jan 13th.
Hi @aggroed, that's awesome, thank you so much! I'll let Chrissy know and she'll get in touch tomorrow evening through the minnow pond Discord. That's really exciting - hopefully she can take a couple of weeks off from YouTube and just focus on getting content onto Steemit so hopefully after chatting with you and by Jan 7th her Steemit page will have started in earnest.
This is such a great community, you'd never find this level of feedback and helpfulness from others on YouTube or Facebook. I think Steemit will be in the top 100 websites by the end of 2018, once smart media tokens are adopted in earnest.
Chrissy works flat out on her YouTube channel and for the level of views she gets and for the quality and volume of great content that Google/YouTube gets from her honestly the income she receives is very small per view compared to what most people believe. There's a common belief you get $1 on YouTube for every 1,000 views but I think it's a lot less than that. I'll put some figures together based on her real stats.
For your show what might be a really interesting angle is a direct comparison of payouts that content creators get on Steemit versus YouTube. For example I've done a few small posts on Steemit, not much yet, and even taking the Google myth that you get $1 per 1,000 views if I take an example of one of my posts which had only 125 Views it made around $23 dollars.
So Chrissy as a YouTube content creator gets maybe $1 for a 1,000 views, whereas myself as a Steemit Content Creator with almost no following can write a post and from only 125 views make $23 dollars. Then on top of that those Steemit earnings pay out half as SteemDollars and SBD's are actually worth between $9-$14 dollars on Bittrex based on fluctuations of the last few weeks.
So my payout on that post of 123 views was about $11.5 SteemDollars (SBD) and $11.5 SteemPower and the SteemDollars alone therefore are worth maybe $110 on the open market (Bittrex etc.) So my true payout for a post of 123 views if you take the SBD and the SteemPower combined would be worth probably around 10 x $23 (i.e $230). And that could be a lot more if Steem and SBD keeps rising on the open market which is likely to happen the more popular and widespread Steemit becomes.
I'm just putting this in perspective of what might entice YouTube creators to convert to Steemit. One of the things that put Chrissy off was she didn't understand how the seven day payout worked on Steemit and her concern was that it can take months for any of her films on YouTube to start to gain traction, so a seven day payout limit seems counter intuitive to any successful YouTube creator. But now that Smart Media Tokens are around the corner I think that's going to help a lot of YouTube creators see where the value is and how being able to issue their own token plus the extra audience contribution and participation will be of value.
One thing I'm trying to figure out is how Smart Media Tokens are going to work across Social Media. I haven't seen much info on how the Social Media integrations will work with Steemit and it's one of the factors that will help YouTube creators or Content Creators from other platforms feel comfortable on Steemit, - ie. if the Steemit wallet or SMT's have an ability to track and monetise interactions across various social media platforms. For example what ReddCoin is already doing.
I've been watching ReddCoin this week and it has a very interesting idea behind it about monetising all social media. The Reddcoin Wallet is almost a social media application in itself where you can monitor all your various social media feeds in the wallet. So in relation to Steemit's Smart Media tokens when that rolls out I hope the Steemit Wallet gets upgraded to also do something comparable to what ReddCoin is doing now. It would be really great, and a real enticement to YouTube creators etc. to adopt Steemit if Steemit's Smart Media Tokens also came with a wallet that could track their implementation across all forms of Social media.