>>22Reading the vidme statement it looks like they failed because they couldn't convince jews to burn money "advertising" on their channel like on youtube. All this proves is that ad-supported platforms are over and the future is in direct user transactions, even youtube is trying to do deals with msm to get cable money because marketers are realizing video ads are ineffective and CPMs are cratering.
But imagine a video streaming service that cost $20 a month: 15 of those $ could be split between every video you watched that month and paid out to the creators, meaning if you watched an average of 5 videos a day for a month you would split that $15 between 150 videos paying out 10c per view which is $100 CPM for creators. Incredible! That kind of thinking is clearly the future, ads are the past.
You could also combine this with some kind of software and pay out for article views, etc. to create an entirely ad-free monetization pathway for websites. Brave browser is trying something like that with btc micropayments for page views, but I'm not sure how far along they are.