The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube
I produce Music Tech-based educational content on YT.  It started as a hobby and sideline to my main work (which at the time was classroom teaching of the same content).  While I'm no longer working in classrooms (pandemic plus other reasons led to this), I'm still producing content, which I think is of good quality and worthwhile.<p>The issue I have with it is that I refuse to produce attention-grabbing clickbaity titles or thumbnails.  I don't like the whole algorithmically-driven race to the bottom of the brain stem, and have zero interest in producing the same.  I've had plenty of comments from viewers who say the videos are great and informative, but if I'd just jazz things up a bit then I'd get more views.<p>I'm just wondering how this will change (if at all) with this new program.  It takes a LOT of time to produce decent content, and even more if you're going to provide a course and backup materials etc.. Writing curricula is HARD work, and writing tests, etc., that are actually valid is reasonably challenging and time consuming.<p>I currently get about £100 a month from YT, which definitely doesn't reflect the time I put into it (but I know it has other benefits as I sell a fair number of books partly as a result of the viewership).  I know that the beasts of the platform (3b1b spring to mind) would do really well from this (and deservedly so), but I do wonder if things really need to change to make YT work well for genuinely-produced non-clickbait educational content.