CarsomyrPlusSix
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As Ben noted they don’t care about the fact that he is demonetized, he has 6 million subscribers who watch the show on YouTube and they do ad reads and promote Daily Wire subscriptions on the shows as well as books and other media and their other talent.
Steven comes off as a real asshole here. It’s fine to not want a deal, apparently he did try to negotiate for a much larger amount of money and no consequences for any of these things. They did not like that and countered and eventually it was decided they couldn’t get to a deal DW thought was both reasonable and protected their investment with clauses like “you have to do a certain amount of shows a year.”
The thing about “don’t get banned from x” is basically they have lawyers and other staff that closely monitor any TOS changes or enforcement trends on social media / dispute the moderators on said social media if they go after one of their people. What this effectively means is they know where the no-go areas are on say, YouTube, and are always abreast of what YouTube is doing in this regard before recording. If they know what they want to say would get the video taken down off YouTube, they leave that stuff for the sub-locked end of show or second subscription locked exclusive show in Ben’s case.
It’s the smart way to handle it. They use YouTube to get the word out and get more subscriptions, and their ad reads are worth more knowing they are on Spotify and YouTube and what not. If they were just a subscription based video site only with no social media presence and no free to watch content on the most popular podcast or streaming video sites, that is much fewer subscriptions and your ads would not be worth hardly anything because your millions of watchers / listeners because hundreds or even tens of thousands.
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