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[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's interesting, last I had heard TikTok was morally abysmal when it came to paying creators. Unless that changed in the last few months then any Tiktok creator would make more money on YouTube even with a smaller audience.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For normal Tiktok creators, I'm not sure. But from what I remember, our TikTok revenue (combined creator fund payout + donations) outperformed every other source of revenue on a month-to-month basis EXCEPT the large local fundraising drives (which we only had quarterly).

The secret hack to the internet has always been animal content, lol. Animal videos performed very well, especially if you got into the creator fund. Youtube shorts only performed well for us when we had long form content the short could lead into. Before then we had 0 visibility on the YT algo.

Finally, Tiktok has better integration different payment methods through fundraising platforms (GoFundMe, Kickstarter, etc) than Youtube (or any Meta app tbh), or at least from what I understood from our accountants (I never bought anything off of Tiktok).

Again, this is only from my experience, and some other small animal rescues that we worked with. That's why I express sympathy for these organizations. I don't really care what happens to the drop shipping influencers or whatever.

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, i see. Thats really interesting, thanks for your insight.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 2 points 14 hours ago

No problem! A lot of commenters on Fedi/Reddit seem like they don't have a lot of experience with Tiktok compared to Meta or Google platforms, so I'm always happy to speak on my experience with it.