Should I create a Patreon Page?

MJ Vilches said:
It's like a site that helps you set up a page to get help from your audiences/ask them for donations for you to create your contents more awesome. You can also give exclusive rewards to those audiences that supports you through donations. Just google it to get more info.. hehe.
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Thanks for sharing this, never heard of a patreon page before. Seems like a "Go Fund" for YouTube kinda.
IMO I see no problem to start up an account, but like others have said if your following is not large it may not make that much of a difference, but it can't hurt to try :)
 
I'd say not even worth trying until you have at least 5,000 subscribers, if not more than that. Also would help if you do additional visual arts stuff beyond YT.
 
I would say when you have a decent dedicated audience so about 10k in subs approximately but I would say have a look at what other people have done and go from there as you might get some ideas.
 
Thanks everyone for your answers! XD I just needed someone else's opinion on it. Had to confirm some stuff and thanks to you guys, I've confirmed it. Indeed, my subs and views aren't enough to start one and I needed someone else to tell me that. Also I asked the question to talk about the topic in general, not just towards me. XD
 
Glad you were able to think about it more with all the advice :)
MJ Vilches said:
Also I asked the question to talk about the topic in general, not just towards me. XD
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In that case, haha, I went ahead and opened up my own page. I didn't push marketing for it too much for my own reasons, so it doesn't have much in terms of donations, but it doesn't bother me. (Though my rewards are not that enticing, since I don't have time for anything big. Perhaps in the future that will change.) I figured, why not open one anyway, and if people want to donate, they will.

It took me quite a long time before I opened it though. I put in a ton of hours in research, figuring out what I wanted, what I could do, what I was able to do, etc. I looked at loads of other people's pages, both in my community and outside of it, just to get ideas and inspiration. I have a big list of notes and plans in a document from all that research. I ended up keeping things simple since I don't have a lot of free time at the moment. Since I spent enough time figuring out logistics and plans, if I ever were to expand what my rewards are, I can do so in seconds, since it's all already pre-prepared. :)

That's my experience thus far, at least. Oh, and they have awesome customer service :3
 
I have a Patreon page, personally. I'd have to agree with some of the replies that you'd have to be really established to make a Patreon prescence worth it; I have only two patrons at this time, and both of them are close friends of mine.
 
I agree that you'd probably need more subscribers and know that you have enough loyal viewers who'd actually care and pay.

Here's an example. I have about 1.5 K subscribers... I recently did a skydive for charity and vlogged it and talked about it on my channel in case any of my viewers wanted to sponsor me/donate. Only 6 of my viewers did. Now don't get me wrong, even that was overwhelmingly nice to me and I appreciated that 6 essentially strangers decided to sponsor my skydive and donate to a charity I cared about. But that just gives you the ratios. 6/1500 people cared enough to donate. And mine was a one off payment for a charity, not for myself!

But now I know for a fact that Patreon would definitely not work for me at this stage. I personally wouldn't even think about setting one up until I have at least 10,000 subscribers. Though it's not necessarily about numbers, more so about how dedicated and loyal you feel your viewers are. Someone could have 100 subscribers but of that 100, most of them could be fully invested in their channel and be willing to give money to support etc. So it depends on your audience type too, I guess.

Hope that helped :)
 
Personally I probably won't do a patreon page till I'm a good chunk bigger. Also I'm not even sure like what kind of benefits I could offer people for it if I did have one. I'm not sure how much more time I would be able to commit to offering extra things to people if they paid for that for me. I do think it is a pretty good idea though for when your in that phase of your not really a giant channel but you want to be but don't quit have the funding for maybe equipment upgrades or whatever.
 
Ive seen plenty of 100k sub YouTubers with only a dozen patreon backers. It will probably be more work in man hours than it's worth.
 
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