Maybe it’s time for SDF to get a YouTube channel

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Luke Warmwar said:
Everything here is public. If it were easy to monetise the site’s content, people already would be doing so.

I don’t know anything about the financial structure here, but I’m assuming mods are volunteers, and the owner is a private individual, like most traditional forums. If it were possible to monetise, why would a mod do that work, just to donate the revenue to the site owner?
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I mean it is easy to monetise this site's content. The defense intelligence community offers many jobs, you just can't post it on the internet for all to see lol. I'd assume most mods here do not do PLA OSINT as a full time job and treat this as a hobby.

A good middle ground between written reports and dedicated youtube videos could be the previously done podcasts, while they were taken down snippets of them floating around did offer valuable information and I'd imagine requires less infrastructure to setup than a tightly scripted video.
 
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A good example on Youtube of a podcast done well is the Duran:
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. I'm focused on the way they deliver their podcast content, rather than on their messages.

The two main hosts would get together on a near daily basis, and talk about what they see as the key geopolitical events of the moment. They obviously come prepared, and probably would have notified each other of the questions to be raised ahead of time. Still, it is generally a free-flowing conversation. The videos are quite short for a podcast, at 15 to 30 minutes on average, and they appear to be minimally edited. With enough geopolitical and military knowledge, these videos take very little effort to produce - they put out like one a day and these get lots of traction.

I can imagine the same video format being followed by two people from SDF.
 
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5unrise said:
A good example on Youtube of a podcast done well is the Duran:
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. I'm focused on the way they deliver their podcast content, rather than on their messages.

The two main hosts would get together on a near daily basis, and talk about what they see as the key geopolitical events of the moment. They obviously come prepared, and probably would have notified each other of the questions to be raised ahead of time. Still, it is generally a free-flowing conversation. The videos are quite short for a podcast, at 15 to 30 minutes on average, and they appear to be minimally edited. With enough geopolitical and military knowledge, these videos take very little effort to produce - they put out like one a day and these get lots of traction.

I can imagine the same video format being followed by two people from SDF.
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Something like the Guancha Trios?
 
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Blitzo said:
There are already some Youtube channels by people who focus on PLA military developments.


I generally am opposed to the idea.

Unless you make an account like Cabbage who produced great QBZ-191 videos that were extensively researched, delivered without clickbait, and most importantly made without being too great in frequency, the problem with Youtube channels is they all inevitably descend into clickbait content mills.

Use of inaccurate or exaggerated screencaps as preview images, unnecessarily "exciting" titles, and presenting information in a way that is a bit too "confident" than is deserved... those are all unattractive traits.


The more confident and "exposed" one is, the more vulnerable you are to having your arguments criticized for being incorrect due to making overreach. For PLA watching, the credibility of PLA watching lies in the ability to not overexpose the methodology and to not be overly "up to date" in conveying rumours (especially at early stages).


If anything, the ability to make PLA watching more subdued, less exciting, less "emotional" and less clickbait worthy, should be the goal.
The more caveats the better.
The more uncertainty, the better as well.
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The issue is that if SDF doesn't do it, someone else will. At least if we are the official purveyor of content here and attract more eyeballs, we have some (small) influence on the final output quality of the content that gets put on YT
 
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leibowitz said:
The issue is that if SDF doesn't do it, someone else will. At least if we are the official purveyor of content here and attract more eyeballs, we have some (small) influence on the final output quality of the content that gets put on YT
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I'm not sure that's an arms race that is worth getting into.

Influence can still be felt without having to directly produce content itself -- if anything it may be better that way because we do not want nor need SDF to become more widely known or prominent.
 
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There's also the question of what to do with the Youtube revenue.
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In fact there is none yet and as long as the questions on will there be or not, who should do it are nor solved it's a total useless discussion - as we say in Germany: "Um ungelegte Eier!"

I think the whole idea is moot as long it is not clear who should do it or who is will to do that?
 
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Deino said:
In fact there is none yet and as long as the questions on will there be or not, who should do it are nor solved it's a total useless discussion - as we say in Germany: "Um ungelegte Eier!"

I think the whole idea is moot as long it is not clear who should do it or who is will to do that?
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I have a great idea. All revenue from YouTube channel should go to Deino so he can retire from his job and work full-time as a PLA OSINT and show us great photos from Zhuhai air show.
 
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