Tube Start Questions

[jamsterkid]

Hello, ive noticed that there's an advert on here about a website called tube start about getting crowd funding for your YouTube channel. Now to me this sounds a great idea. but i wonder how many people know about it and if anyone has ever started a campaign, did it work?

 

[Shane]

It looks like it doesn't get any traffic and no projects seem to have been funded.

But there's no harm in trying

 

[IrfaanGames]

wait so could i start one for like a new computer

 

[Josefts]

Hello, ive noticed that there's an advert on here about a website called tube start about getting crowd funding for your YouTube channel. Now to me this sounds a great idea. but i wonder how many people know about it and if anyone has ever started a campaign, did it work?

Hi Jamsterkid! Tubestart is a young, tech driven crowdfunding platform for YouTubers. We've launched about 4 months ago and to date successfully funded 6 campaigns: https://www.tubestart.com/search/successful with another 20 or so being live at the moment. We have partnered with many of the biggest and most innovative MCNs and the platform is growing fast with over 10.000 registered users.

Tubestart has many features specifically designed for YouTubers and not available on other crowdfunding platforms such as subscription crowdfunding as well as flexible and fixed funding options, professional hands on campaign support, multiple billing options (paypal, stripe) and the most comprehensive campaign statistics out there: https://www.tubestart.com/blog/new-crowdfunding-campaign-stats.html

Here is a small chart comparing Tubestart to some of the other platforms out there:

Let me know if you have any questions or need help to get started!

best regards, Josef

 

[TigerXtrm]

It's a very interesting site for larger projects and there are certainly some very cool projects in there. But the majority of stuff I see on there is basically people begging for money because they need want new hardware. And the pledge rewards are often a joke, going no further than 'I'll thank you in a video'. Not to mention a whole host of people who want money because they are planning on starting a channel.

 

[mycharliequinn]

Hi Jamsterkid! Tubestart is a young, tech driven crowdfunding platform for YouTubers. We've launched about 4 months ago and to date successfully funded 6 campaigns: https://www.tubestart.com/search/successful with another 20 or so being live at the moment. We have partnered with many of the biggest and most innovative MCNs and the platform is growing fast with over 10.000 registered users.

Tubestart has many features specifically designed for YouTubers and not available on other crowdfunding platforms such as subscription crowdfunding as well as flexible and fixed funding options, professional hands on campaign support, multiple billing options (paypal, stripe) and the most comprehensive campaign statistics out there: https://www.tubestart.com/blog/new-crowdfunding-campaign-stats.html

Here is a small chart comparing Tubestart to some of the other platforms out there:

Let me know if you have any questions or need help to get started!

best regards, Josef

I am curious about that graph.
because with my understanding of what those words mean I would consider subbable to be both flexable and fixed as well as having a marketplace and a perk engine. Unless you just re-defined those words to mean something that excluded them to make your graph look better. Also I know of subbable members form America (vlog brothers) and canada (andrew huong and gunnarolla) so wouldn't that make their number of countries at least two?

 

[Josefts]

I am curious about that graph.
because with my understanding of what those words mean I would consider subbable to be both flexable and fixed as well as having a marketplace and a perk engine. Unless you just re-defined those words to mean something that excluded them to make your graph look better. Also I know of subbable members form America (vlog brothers) and canada (andrew huong and gunnarolla) so wouldn't that make their number of countries at least two?

Thanks for your post mycharliequinn, great questions!

Let me try to explain what flexible and fixed crowdfunding means:

• Fixed or "Threshold-Pledge" system is the same "all or nothing" type of crowdfunding that Kickstarter uses. You set a goal X and if you miss it you get nothing. Subbable doesn't support this model by design.
• Flexible crowdfunding is the model used on Indiegogo and many other platforms such as Tubestart but subbable does not support this model either. It allows campaigns to keep whatever they have raised even if their set campaign goal was missed.

In Response to the other parts of your message:

• Countries available:We're basing that number on countries supported by the platform's payment gateway. Unless something has changed, it is my understanding that Amazon payments is only available to US based campaign owners.
  
  
• Marketplace:Our marketplace is a place where providers of services relevant and beneficial to the crowdfunding community get listed (for free) and offer Tubestarters a special discount: https://www.tubestart.com/marketplace If any of the other platforms listed in my graph please let me know where and I will happily update it!
  
  
• Perk Engine:
  Many video creators find it hard to come up with great perks for their crowdfunding campaigns. Many tangible perks require a lot of work and have a lot of room for error i.e. wrong tshirt sizes or miscalculated shiping fees. Tubestart has partnered with a company to offer custom designed t-shirts, mugs, hats etc. as perks and have them directly shipped to the supporter the next day thus eliminating having to deal with perks in the first place and not having the risk of unforeseen shipping charges and delivery problems that many other campaigns have. It also includes a service where a creator could offer a DVD or Blu Ray as a perk and have them custom label printed and shipped out as they are ordered completely hands free for the creators, even payments are handled fully automated. I do not believe subbable or of the other crowdfunding platforms have such any services implemented on a campaign level to automate the perk fulfillment and help creators to spend more time on running a successful campaign and less time fulfilling perks.

I think subbable is great, the more platforms out there, the more choice and better service for creators.

 

[TigerXtrm]

So what is stopping someone from abusing the flexible crowdfunding system and just come up with a whole bunch of useless fundraisers? Say I were to start a campaign every single month to fund some new hardware or whatever. There's bound to be some pledges. 10, 50, maybe 100 dollars? That's easy money in the pocket and all I have to do is say thank you in some video to the suckers who fell for it.

Having to reach a certain goal prevents people from starting some random campaign and causes them to put more effort into promoting their idea.

 

[TinyPaperPlanes]

It really doesn't seem that effective. But you could give it a go if you really wanted to.
To get funding I would stream or something

 

[Josefts]

So what is stopping someone from abusing the flexible crowdfunding system and just come up with a whole bunch of useless fundraisers? Say I were to start a campaign every single month to fund some new hardware or whatever. There's bound to be some pledges. 10, 50, maybe 100 dollars? That's easy money in the pocket and all I have to do is say thank you in some video to the suckers who fell for it.

Having to reach a certain goal prevents people from starting some random campaign and causes them to put more effort into promoting their idea.

Hi TigerXtrm, Thanks for your input.

In every online transaction is the inherent risk of fraud, also in crowdfunding but there are no statistics indicating that flexible crowdfunding has a higher fraud rate than the threshold-pledge system or the subscription model.

If you know the dynamics of crowdfunding then you know that the kind of fraudulent campaigns you are describing wouldn't attract enough funding (if any at all) to make the scam worth while. Does it happen once in a blue moon? Probably... but not as much as there are scams on sites like Kickstarter where the money is collected for successful campaigns but no perks are ever delivered.

Statistically (and that's from indiegogo) the first 30% of your campaign contributions must come from your friends and family, the next 30% from your secondary social network (friends of friends) and only the rest from strangers on the platform. This in itself is a fraud control mechanism right there because no stranger is ever going to be the first to donate to a campaign he doesn't know and that has raised no money.

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It really doesn't seem that effective. But you could give it a go if you really wanted to.
To get funding I would stream or something

Hi TinyPaperPlanes, Thanks for your response.
I do think that if you raise over $25.000 like this campaign: https://www.tubestart.com/projects/standupbits/576 or $5000 like this one https://www.tubestart.com/projects/a-daze-work/802 or $3500 like this one: https://www.tubestart.com/projects/gone-gnomes-the-animated-series/524 that it changes not only YouTube channels but whole careers and ultimately makes people's lives better.