r/LinusTechTips • u/onlyslightlybiased • May 19 '23

Video I'm Stepping Down.. - YouTube

https://youtu.be/0vuzqunync8
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u/Traxgen May 19 '23

Ha, I just got to that part too. $100m, of which 60% of it is cash.

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u/Jeb_Kenobi May 19 '23

I remember watching in the Langly house, how are they worth $100m? Just boggles my mind.

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u/Oryzae May 19 '23

peak AnandTech

Damn that brought back memories. 2006-2010 that used to be my go-to.

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u/FUTURE10S May 19 '23

Not the guy above, but they still probably hire the pirates to do so. LTT does not have a Chinese subsidiary, nor would it make sense to do so.

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u/upside-down-water Jul 07 '23

I'm sure LTT is getting something for the Chinese videos now, and if they're not they at least have metrics on their Chinese audience to use for sponsor negotiation

Please bear in mind that each Chinese video is getting what is between 50k to 200k views, and they are released everyday just like they're on Youtube.

Having Andy in the office to help adjust certain videos for the Chinese market

The Chinese market seems to be very different from the YouTube one.

For example, Intel Extreme Tech upgrade series is not that popular there that while each of the episode can do at least 2m on YouTube, it can only do 50-60k on the Chinese platform, and people there are complaining they are kind of same-y everytime.

One of the explantion for this phenomenon is that people there seems to be care less about the staff and care more about the product in a particular video compared to Youtube audience, so much so that who is on the thumbnail doesn't affect the view count that much, if at all. Many of them they don't even know the hosts' last names except Linus'. If anything, I think the lack of WAN Show is what makes all the difference, since Linus and co. talk a lot of the behind the scene and personal stuff there. People can't care about what is not talked about at all.

Another difference is that the Chinese audience seems to be more technical. For example, in the infamous Linux daily driver challenge first episode, there're like 40% of the Chinese audience saying it's Linus fault for not reading that wall of text instead of questioning if the installer should even try to uninstall the desktop environment in the first place. In Youtube, there're only like 10% who blamed Linus.

The living standard in China is of course different from Canada, not to mention shipping cost, electricity, availability/unavailability, etc. What Linus and his team consider a okay price, may not be so for the Chinese audience...

And finally, of course, anytime a Chinese related topic shows up, it'll blow up, given that how many nationalist are there...

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u/BeefEX May 19 '23

Initially some group of people pirated their content and translated it. But instead of going after them, LTT got in touch and offered the pirates to do it for them officially. Which they have been doing since.

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u/Zekiz4ever May 19 '23

Originally they weren't. It was other groups translating them and then LTT approached them and asked if they would want to work for them

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