Please Name a Successful Website Rewarding Content Creators
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I'll wait.
How about sites designed for Authors to publish their work? I know there are some, but I don't know the model. I can't name one of them off the top of my head.
It isn't because it hasn't been tried. It is a difficult business model.
Here are a few that didn't succeed
- Newsvine - I was active on Newsvine when it did pay, I received about $120 per month.
- TSU - Google this one the story is amazing.
- Digg - Another very interesting story they are still alive, but with a different model.
There are a lot more people who want to create content than there are people wanting to pay for content and this is why the most common result is ad sales and traffic.
What if we can stumble on a hybrid model which uses businesses and traffic to support not only Content Creators but dApps and Bidding Bots and People who want to share things that advertisers would not want to support?
What if SteemMonsters ends up keeping investors here and allowing your content to be seen. If they create traffic and sales, and possibly even investment, isn't that a win/win?
In any case paying Author's for Content is a tricky business model and in my opinion requires a source of income.
If you don't like ads, and spam, or businesses, I am just curious what you think will prop up the price of Steem, and what audience will content creators have?
I am not saying you don't have a good idea of how this can expand and be sustained. I'm just interested in hearing how you picture it working. It's rainy Saturday and I am just sitting around overthinking things.
