Help Leonhart Out

[acebren]

@gemmintpokemon

He’s climbing to the front page on Reddit. Lots of interested former collectors in the comments. Some misinformation too.

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Do yourself a favour and don’t start reading the comments, I can’t handle all the bad info with hundreds/thousands of up votes lol

[piezers]

@acebren

@gemmintpokemon

He’s climbing to the front page on Reddit. Lots of interested former collectors in the comments. Some misinformation too.

Reddit - Dive into anything

Do yourself a favour and don’t start reading the comments, I can’t handle all the bad info with hundreds/thousands of up votes lol

I read through every single one. I highly recommend it. I learned you don’t even have to be in the hobby to be salty.

[johnnymucho]

I just saw Leon Tweet at Mr. Beast about opening some vintage product together and I think this is an excellent move on his behalf. The more big names we can rope into the Pokémon community, the better.

Leon pulling the 1st Ed. Charizard is perfect timing given the situation - he’s pulling in thousands of upvotes on Reddit and likes on Twitter that the content is especially speaking for itself. I’m hoping that this one video is a boulder being plopped in the center of a lake that sends new ripples of excitement into the hobby for weeks, months, and years to come.

[richi2rich]

@pikachuisbestpokemon

@chrispy

This is exactly the problem. In the past, there were a lot of creators (like leon) specifically focusing on a younger demographic. There’s a few reasons for this. 1) Children have more time on their hands and are more likely to binge watch a lot of your content 2) They’re more loyal and get hooked on content easier. They’re also more likely to interact. 3) They’ll be around longer. It makes sense to want an audience that wont run into “life” as quickly and get sidetracked from the show. If you had a child audience, you were doing bigger numbers (views) and those views would translate to dollars based on ads. The problem is that once COPPA rules came along, the ad revenue stream changed. Your “show” is either getting ad revenue from children-oriented ad placements, or ad revenue for adult-oriented ad placements. Youtube essentially fractured the earning potential of any show focusing on a younger demographic. Compound that with this “bug” where even children/subscribers are failing to see his content show up as “suggested” and he has a big problem. Apparently Youtube acknowledged part of the issue being a bug on their end that they are working on fixing. It sucks that Leon is basically stuck waiting with a “we’re sorry” while his revenue takes a dip, but it’s likely only a hiccup. I think he, and other creators, should be looking ahead though. This is what happens when you rely soley on youtube for revenue. It’s a good idea for content to live on multiple platforms with multiple streams of revenue coming in, as well as to privatize some additional revenue via a plethora of different applications that allow direct-funding from the audience/fans.

Yup, exactly. This is why what pokerev does is a pretty interesting model overall. People buy packs which pokerev opens on livestream. Obviously people like it and it makes for good entertainment. I think what we are going to see is the whole game is going to start shifting. Youtube is eventually going to label pokemon TCG channels as “made for kids” and it won’t be a bug. Ad revenue for those channels will plummet by as much as 90%. At that point, I could see certain youtubers who can’t adapt will start scaling down the quality of their videos. Bye bye opening vintage packs or dozens of expensive product. That will result in less people wanting to watch that content. It will just be boring. At the same time, new youtubers will pop on to the scene that creates something unique which is entertaining and economically viable at the same time.

There are a bunch of other pokemon TCG youtubers that are tiny at this point but trying to get their name out there. We could always see one of those unknown people burst on to the scene quickly with something interesting. I think the future is definitely live streaming and having high interactivity with your viewers.

I’ll watch Pokerev’s videos and pack openings but i doubt i’ll ever buy his packs…it’s way overpriced…shouldn’t it be the other way around?, cheaper packs if they’re opened on cam? To each their own though. He already makes money from the stream donations, and the youtube advertisements after the video is uploaded.

Other Youtubers also make more revenue from being affiliates by giving their “discount code” and/or selling merchandise. Even Z had a video where he said made more money from eBay commissions than Youtube. They can also get sponsored by companies as well. Leonhart’s shirts for example, or Unlistedleaf’s constant impossible good pulls from PokeCollect. There are other places the creators earn revenue, it’s not just Youtube. And as long as these creators push out 10:00 plus videos, they’ll maximize their revenue.

I just really wish these creators would be more upfront. Not even once, Leonhart never said anything about revenue. I’m sure as a lawyer he knows how to word things properly but it was repeatedly about recommended links, lower views, etc. Not once about money…but that’s exactly what he was trying to say reading between the lines. And really, about those “discount codes” or “free shipping codes”. Just be real. TCA always says it’d help out the channel if we click his link to buy stuff on eBay. I really like that.

With my rant, i will support Leonhart more as long as his ads aren’t 2 minutes long…I like the liberty mutual ads…yea play those more.

Edit:Just realized that video on reddit doesn’t link to youtube…it’s a clip! that’s wrong. poster shouldve linked to the original content. now THAT would have helped out Leonhart more.