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Play Through, YouTube and Crowdfunding

How crowdfunding helps YouTube content.

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Play Through, YouTube and Crowdfunding
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YouTube has become a major entertainment outlet for people across the globe, and it creates a living for many of the content creators that make the entertainment. Recently there have been many new crowd funding campaigns and companies started to help anyone from innovators to students looking to study abroad. However, there are a select few crowd funding websites that are specially made for the people on YouTube that create playthroughs of popular video games. One such website, gamewisp.com, has taken the idea of giving the creators the option to offer gifts and special benefits to the people who choose to support their channel. One such channel on GameWisp (That One Video Gamer) has offered many different levels of support that you can choose from, the levels range from a simple $10 all the way to $40 a month. Each level comes with its own amount of benefits which include access to a special server and a new limited edition T-shirt a month.

These specialized crowd funders are becoming a popular way for the YouTube creator community to help fund the many expenses put into their content, for although many of the creators start in a bedroom or extra room in their house, they become attached to their work on YouTube and to the idea of being able to have their voice heard. For the playthrough creator, there is also the cost of the game itself and the video capture equipment made to capture game play. YouTube itself has a pay scale that depends heavily on the number of viewers that a channel receives. This means that a person's channel can turn out anywhere from $15 to $1,000 a month depending on the content created within those 30 days. Since the pay from YouTube itself is uncertain, many content creators have other sources of income that they use as their main source of income.

Since there are many channels that are centered around playthroughs or reviews of video games, it can be difficult for a new creator to become a well known channel among those who frequent YouTube. With the many crowd funding options focused on the playthrough creator, there is now a way for the creator to feel like they have indeed made an impact upon the vast community of YouTube and for them to also have a sufficient amount of money for which to further their channel's quality and content. This is why many of the creators have turned to GameWisp or even Patron to help finance their channel.

Overall, the ever changing internet has been able to give the video game playthrough creator an outlet for them to not only expand their wallet, but to also offer their viewers a gift in exchange for their monitary support.

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