YouTube appears to be testing a way for desktop viewers to reward content creators with ‘Applause.’
Users can buy the Applause feature on specific creators’ videos to show support for that YouTube channel. The feature is a very similar concept to the micro-transactions available to gamers on Twitch.
Twitch viewers can purchase ‘bits’ for real money. Those bits can then be used in a variety of ways. Creator channels can offer custom emoji, special channel statuses, and more for bits. Twitch pays creators one cent for every bit they earn from their viewers in a month.
The YouTube Applause feature seems to be less transparent than Twitch. Though the feature is in testing, the official support page doesn’t detail how much creators actually get. The lack of transparency is an issue when YouTube already faces low artist compensation rates.
The feature is obviously designed to help pick up the low-royalty payment slack by offering digital tipping. But YouTube isn’t willing to disclose how much it takes off the top for providing the service.
For now, the viewer Applause feature appears limited to desktop users in certain countries.
Australia, Brazil, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, and the USA are on the beta test shortlist. Users may see an ‘Applaud’ button under participating content creator videos. Clicking the button offers a pop-up to see how much an applause costs. The U.S. pop-up appears to offer a standard $2 donation option.
Viewers are not limited on the number of times they can purchase Applause on a single video. YouTube also guarantees that personal details are not shared with the creator and are not made public. That seems rife for abuse, right?
Purchase limits for the YouTube Applause feature are in place to prevent abuse. Only $500 USD per day or $2,000 USD per week can be spent on Super Chats, Super Stickers, and Applause. These payments are effectively tips to the creator (that YouTube skims) and cannot be refunded.
So….You Tube wants to listen to my home as I’m living a life
To capture when I clap ?
To something I like…..
Listening all day
Will they be listening to when I curse and yell?
What do you get then?
What if I clap for things they don’t want me to clap for?
They unsubscribe me from my favorite creators….
They remove views
They remove likes
Don’t Allow my comments
They even won’t allow me to use targeting adds
You Tube Lyor Coen suppressed my music on you tube
Makes it harder to make any living off my work…
So Billie Eyelash can win 9 Grammy s
And Have no competition
That company
Wants me to trust it
With listening to me all day
For applause?
The music business ended but nobody Officially notified the musicians
now I’m waiting for someone to develope the opposite : beeing paid by artists
after listening their stuff and finding it not relevent or mêhh (for the time waisted and the pre roll ad(s)”
I’m just kiddding 🙂 …even if