PewDiePie shocked by impact of YouTube Adpocalypse on David Dobrik During a DLive stream, king of YouTube Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg weighed in on how hard famous YouTuber David Dobrik was hit by the Adpocalypse, while also voicing his opinion on things YouTube and Dobrik are doing right and wrong. Pewdiepie may be on top of YouTube, but the popular Swedish entertainer hasn\u2019t bet his entire career on one single platform. During a recent stream of his on the DLive platform, he explained why he had done this on purpose. While reading an article about YouTube\u2019s latest COPPA regulations, he said that he\u2019s \u201calways been mindful that a YouTube career could end at any point.\u201d PewDiePie has been extremely vocal about his perceived problems with the COPPA regulations set to become official in 2020. He\u2019s been especially critical of the automated portion of the new regulations, harboring back to the issue of automatic copyright claims, before turning his focus to the YouTube \u2018Adpocalypse\u2019 that affected so many channels. Pewds brought up the Mens\u2019 Health video featuring YouTube star David Dobrik sharing financial aspects of his career on the video platform. Pewdiepie was stunned to see the drop in revenue for Dobrik, who went from monthly checks of around $275k for 60 million views to checks of approximately only $2,000 for nearly 180 million views. He acknowledged that this was likely due to Dobrik\u2019s edgy content, but most importantly, the amount of copyrighted music that Dobrik uses in his videos. Pewdiepie correctly assumed that brand deals were a big part of the equation and were pleasantly surprised to hear David say the money he gets from brand deals goes toward the big gift in his videos. \u201cThat\u2019s a cool way to do it,\u201d Felix remarked. \u201cIt\u2019s hard not to like David. He seems cool.\u201d Dobrik inadvertently brought up a similar point to PewDiePie in his Men\u2019s\u2019 Health video about not banking entirely on YouTube. David said the lower checks \u201cwere a wake-up call\u201d that he should expand into other avenues like merchandise, which Pewds agreed with. While both stars appear interested in expanding outside of the platform, with PewDiePie addressing how AdSense can only support a creator if they create daily videos, he also said that \u201cYouTube does a lot of really good things,\u201d and that creating a new framework similar to YouTube\u2019s would \u201ccost a fortune.\u201d But he also encouraged competition, saying that competition like that is useful in any industry. Given that he also said that there\u2019s currently \u201cno option outside of YouTube other than streaming,\u201d we can expect both creators to stay on the platform for a while. You can watch the whole video of PewDiePie here on DLive. The Dobrik discussion starts at 31:03.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PewDiePie shocked by impact of YouTube Adpocalypse on David Dobrik During a DLive stream, king of YouTube Felix \u2018PewDiePie\u2019 Kjellberg weighed in on how hard famous YouTuber David Dobrik was hit by the Adpocalypse, while also voicing his opinion on things YouTube and Dobrik are doing right and wrong. Pewdiepie may be on top of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}