Personally, I’d rather pay for Nebula than YouTube premium. Most of the creators I actively follow are on there anyways, and the few that aren’t (usually the ones with very long videos) I should probably just watch with ads anyways to support them.
The owners of Nebula own half the company, and the creators own the other half. That’s at least my understanding of it generally. I believe Wendover Productions also somewhat recently uploaded a YT video explaining somewhat more in depth how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alqt6RCEWdM
My understanding is it’s a joint venture between the creators and some LLC (don’t know too much of the details of that), so the creators have at least some ownership stake. The profits from subscriptions get split evenly based on watch time.
I remember them doing a lifetime subscription offer that I was intrigued by, but I can afford to support them through a subscription so I didn’t bite on the chance.
I watched a Wendover video on this recently. Apparently it’s on the contract that creators have stake in the company in such a way that if Nebula ever gets bought out then creators get some proportional cut relative to the value of their content. The specifics aren’t known, but they do also get paid as revenue directly from Nebula whenever they advertise on YouTube.
Nebula is great in comparison, and apparently video creators make even more money from Nebula views than YouTube Premium views, which is already a lot more than ad-supported views.
Nebula’s content base is small in comparison but very quickly growing and already includes most of the longer-form video creators I would want anyway (Jenny Nicholson is one notable exception, but her Patreon channel is wildly successful so I sort of doubt she feels like torpedoing that to do a whole new platform).
But frankly, if I paid what I pay for Nebula and only got Jet Lag, it would still be worth it to me.
Personally, I’d rather pay for Nebula than YouTube premium. Most of the creators I actively follow are on there anyways, and the few that aren’t (usually the ones with very long videos) I should probably just watch with ads anyways to support them.
I had a similar thought. How fair is nebula to their creators? I heard it was somehow creator owned, but other than that I have no idea how it works.
The owners of Nebula own half the company, and the creators own the other half. That’s at least my understanding of it generally. I believe Wendover Productions also somewhat recently uploaded a YT video explaining somewhat more in depth how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alqt6RCEWdM
50% profits go to creators proportionate to their watch time i think. Wendover productions has a video about the history of the platform LINK
My understanding is it’s a joint venture between the creators and some LLC (don’t know too much of the details of that), so the creators have at least some ownership stake. The profits from subscriptions get split evenly based on watch time.
I remember them doing a lifetime subscription offer that I was intrigued by, but I can afford to support them through a subscription so I didn’t bite on the chance.
Wendover Productions, one of the owner creators, goes into it here:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alqt6RCEWdM
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/wendover-how-a-small-group-of-creators-built-a-150-million-business
The most in-depth overview of how Nebula works I’ve seen, straight from the horse’s mouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alqt6RCEWdM
I watched a Wendover video on this recently. Apparently it’s on the contract that creators have stake in the company in such a way that if Nebula ever gets bought out then creators get some proportional cut relative to the value of their content. The specifics aren’t known, but they do also get paid as revenue directly from Nebula whenever they advertise on YouTube.
Nebula is great in comparison, and apparently video creators make even more money from Nebula views than YouTube Premium views, which is already a lot more than ad-supported views.
Nebula’s content base is small in comparison but very quickly growing and already includes most of the longer-form video creators I would want anyway (Jenny Nicholson is one notable exception, but her Patreon channel is wildly successful so I sort of doubt she feels like torpedoing that to do a whole new platform).
But frankly, if I paid what I pay for Nebula and only got Jet Lag, it would still be worth it to me.
This is the first I’ve heard of it. I’ll have to check it out, sounds awesome