EVE General Discussion

While this is a suggestion, it is not about gameplay as such, but about advertising EVE. I hence hope this is the right forum for the thread.

I watch YouTube "Let's Plays" (mostly "grand strategy" stuff) and occasionally Twitch streams. While there is quite some EVE content there, I feel there isn't as much as there could be. Perhaps more importantly, most EVE videos remain pretty niche, if we go by view and subscription numbers.

So I wonder, maybe CCP could offer incentives for making popular EVE video? Popularity on these channels is fairly quantifiable.

For example, let's say your EVE YouTube video hits a 250,000 views threshold. Then you can apply to CCP, who will vet the video for content (they probably don't want to support videos about how horrible EVE/CCP is). If it's OK, you get a free PLEX. Obviously one would need some mechanism to limit the amount of PLEX a popular YouTuber can gain this way. Maybe you have to wait a month before the next submission, and the next video you submit then must have been posted to YouTube after the previous one.

It's just an example, I don't really know what incentives CCP could/should provide for what. Though I think the threshold should be fairly high, so that CCP doesn't get swamped with "small fry" requests.

The idea here is simply to increase the overall EVE content in the gaming video channels, and perhaps more importantly, to push very popular EVE content that reaches many (and not just the people in the same EVE corp...). This hopefully would provide low cost but efficient advertising that will draw new players to the game.

Comments?

P.S.: I have no vested interest, other than wanting to watch better EVE videos myself. I have neither a YouTube nor a Twitch channel, and the last gaming video I have recorded and edited myself was a Quake 2 LMCTF run ages ago...

Remember though, if you set up ads, youtube pays. I think the most popular guy on youtube, Pewdiepie, gets something like 4 million dollars a year.

He's a lets player, so he doesn't have a lot of production costs other than games and setup (maybe an editor). I don't watch him, I just know he's the most popular one. I just looked it up, he has 40 million subscribers and massive view counts. The amount of money he makes is splashed everywhere over the internet, just do a quick google search.

It's sort of like a famous movie star, except a youtube star. They aren't that different really. I suppose you could argue that there's no "solid proof", but with so many views I don't see it implausible. And there's no way to 'prove' anything on the internet.

Besides, whether it's 2 or 4 million after taxes, it's still a lot of money. I was just pointing out how it's possible to make some money through youtube, not suggesting it was a reliable full time job.