People had jobs before doing youtube videos for a living.
I don't think Tsu should be seen as a way to make money (at least not in a near future) but as a way to get rewarded for the content you produce. The same content which makes the value of Tsu.
Take Instagram for example, talented people post beautiful pictures which add value to Instagram. And yet they only are rewarded with likes/comments. Tsu tries to fix this.
> Take Instagram for example, talented people post beautiful pictures which add value to Instagram. And yet they only are rewarded with likes/comments. Tsu tries to fix this.
They get rewarded with feedback, and if they produce good art they can license it through other means. Supposedly the latter should bring much more substantial money than earning a percentage on ads displayed behind a sign-up wall (why not do like YouTube and serve both content and ads to everyone?).
On the other hand, there do exist people who produce good art but choose to not monetize it. I can understand the attitude: unless I'm sure my art is great and will be widely appreciated, any resources I spend on monetization attempts will likely go to waste, only lowering morale. How do I tell my art is great? Well, fame.
On yet another hand, there's the YouTube crowd that makes money on their art without spending any resources on monetization or waiting to validate whether their art is good first. (Maybe this is due to specifics of video production? It's more engaging to consume and the barrier to entry is a little higher than with photography or text content.)
All in all, Tsu sure seems like an interesting initiative, it gives some food for thought and it'll be interesting to see what comes out of it.
From all its (future) advertising revenues, Tsū will keep 10% and give back to its users the remaining 90%:
* 50% goes back to you directly
* 50% goes back to the people who have invited you, such as the person who invited him gets 33%, the person who invited him/her gets 33% of 33% (~ 11%), the one after that 33% of 33% of 33%, etc...
So anybody who has your "secret" URL can access all of your content? No friend request or anything?
So if I understand correctly the model is that the artists/content creators would create a tsu account to post their stuff and consumers would be forced to make a tsu account to access said content (as I just did to access your page)?
But then you wouldn't use your tsu account to post personal stuff for fear of your tsu URL leaking somewhere and giving anybody access to your vacation pictures?
That sounds like a lot of friction to me. I guess if the content creators can really make more money on this platform than on the alternatives it can be enough to drive adoption.
They launched the invitation system less than 24 hours ago.
I agree with the two issues you mentioned but I think the main issue here is the invitation system : you have to share your profile URL to invite people. They should let people invite strangers with a specific invitation URL.
I suppose they made Tsu profiles accessible to Tsu users only to drive adoption. Once they have enough users, it will make no sense to keep it this way.
EDIT:
> But then you wouldn't use your tsu account to post personal stuff for fear of your tsu URL leaking somewhere and giving anybody access to your vacation pictures?
You can share private content to your friends & family (requires you to add users as friends) and public stuff to your followers / Tsu community
How do you plan on controlling fake profiles ?
For instance, if I create a bunch of fake profiles linked to a real profile and I post randomly on some fake profiles, access posts from fake profiles from the others, what could be preventing me from doing this (and keep all the advertising money to myself) ?
You basically just described what everybody does with Google Ads: Click bots to click their own ads. So if Tsu displays Google ads, it will be Google's problem (or better: the advertisers' problem). (I don't work at Tsu.)
I don't plan anything since I'm not affiliated with Tsu =)
I don't know if they thought about it but since their goal is to give back advertising money to users, doing so won't harm anyone other than the user who referred you.
