Thread: Look beyond the bling and asthetics, some real gem of ideas here

Originally Posted by pippin88

Nick Pedulla makes some great pieces.

He is not trying to hide his income from his online activities. He is not doing dodgy product comparison videos pretending to help the viewer but really just shilling products.

He is an artist woodworker. He has found enough interest is his work online to enable him to spend less time doing commission work and more time creating pieces that he wants to.

If you look back over his videos, he started with no narration and wearing a mask all the time. He has changed his videos a bit in response to demand from the viewers.

As pointed out eloquently above, the bench forms part of his 'shop window'

You may be right, Pippin, but I suspect that producing YouTube product is now Nick Padulla's main occupation and income source. If he makes a piece of furniture he gets paid once. If he produces a successful YouTube video then he gets paid repeatedly.

YouTube operates on the same commercial model as commercial television. When you watch a YouTube they put advertisements on your screen and charge their customers for the priveledge of cluttering your screen. They also pay a small payment to their content providers - people like Nick - every time someone views their video. If YouTube pays Nick ten cents every time you or I watch his stuff then that small change soon mounts up.