Ali Abdaal, Metaverse and Big Picture
Ali Abdaal, Metaverse and Big Picture
Alex MacGregor
August 17, 2022
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The Economics of YouTube
Some of you might have heard of YouTuber Ali Abdaal, others not. That’s the beauty of the platform, it’s enormous.
What guys like Ali show is that with respect to Instagram, although it trails as a KOL/Influencer Marketing revenue generator, it’s by far the most stable ‘creator economy’ platform.
His latest video, ‘How Much YouTube Paid Me For 10,000,000 Views’, dives into the topic in more detail. TDLR, he makes a lot of money, and is transparent about the process. YouTube is hard, the top money makers typically form either a huge personality like Mr Beast or a kids entertainment Ryan’s World.
And YouTube has other problems, especially around content moderation and the rise of TikTok. But it’s one of the Internet’s true gems, alongside Wikipedia and Twitter in my book. And what these three have in common is something that makes the Internet the thing we all grew to love: a place where you can be yourself. And as it turns out, there’s a chance to make a living from it.
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The Intersection of Wearables and the MetaverseDecoder is a show from The Verge about big ideas and The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel picked a biggie this week: the so called ‘metaverse’. This episode goes deep around the idea building digital worlds and the technical challenges and business challenges of building it.
The really interesting thing with this space is, as it stands, there is no killer product or app and secondly, Meta (Facebook) is literally staking by far the largest bet. For now, it’s 100% a buzzword, but what if Apple launched a AR/VR device next January as has been tipped?
The Tech media have been speculating, and even Apple has been ramping up their own efforts. What do you think of any of this Metaverse stuff?More: Decoder with Nilay Patel
The Big PictureProlific tech writer Ben Evans reminisced about this piece way back (crazy right!) in 2016 he wrote on the development of the smartphone and the lessons we can apply looking ahead.
It's always fun to look back ofcourse and it’s way easier than looking forward. That said, the lessons we derive from history can and should be applied to what’s next. In particular, I see a lot of parallels as Ben does between the smartphone and AR/VR now. It’s early, but it’s coming.
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