Jack Conte: How artists can (finally) get paid in the digital age
Jack Conte: Cómo los artistas pueden (finalmente) lograr ser pagados en la era digital
With his membership platform Patreon, YouTube star Jack Conte may have solved a perennial problem of content creators -- getting paid for digital media. Full bio
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working on album
6 meses en álbum
mi corazón y mi alma
al día en Myspace en ese momento
per day on Myspace at the time,
di cuenta de que había personas
when I started noticing these other people
on this new site called YouTube,
nuevo sitio llamado YouTube
videos para subirlos a YouTube.
making some Youtube videos.
a video of my band on the homepage,
de mi banda en la página principal
muchos nuevos fans.
we got a bunch of new fans.
gusta la música o quién sabe.
the music or something --
gente venía a nuestros shows
started coming to our shows,
cuenta bancaria
our bank account balance
pago de iTunes,
momento vivía con mi papá,
I was living at my dad's house,
by uploading videos to the internet
subiendo videos a la Internet,
tomaba en serio en 2009,
respected in 2009 --
uploading videos to the internet.
subiendo videos a la Internet.
videos to the Internet,
through brand deals
hicimos suficiente
estudio de grabación.
in 2013 was super weird.
en 2013 era súper raro.
were changing all the time.
negocio siempre cambiaban,
of annual iTunes download income
USD 58 000 en descargas de iTunes
unos USD 6000 de ingresos de streaming.
6,000 dollars of streaming income.
que descargar.
started popping up online,
aparecían en la Internet,
promociones de marcas de 5 cifras
for these five-figure brand deals
a flote por años.
our videos themselves --
that our fans loved and appreciated --
y nuestros fans amaban y apreciaban,
contributing value to the world,
algo de valor al mundo,
cero en ganancias.
almost zero dollars of income for us.
of my YouTube dashboard
dashboard de YouTube
de anuncios en esas visualizaciones
for those views.
y producía dinero
with 20,000 monthly readers --
con 20 000 lectores mensuales,
bucks in ad revenue.
de dólares por anuncios.
where this is insufficient
en que esto no es suficiente
sound onto a wax cylinder.
sonido en un cilindro de cera.
sobre papel fotográfico, el celuloide.
light onto a piece of photographic paper,
of film and television.
películas y la televisión.
guardar arte en un objeto.
you could store art on a thing,
arte era efímero,
no llegabas a escuchar la orquesta.
you just didn't get to hear the orchestra.
performance on a physical object,
de la orquesta en un objeto físico,
between 1900 and 2000,
entre 1900 y 2000,
of dollars of infrastructure
de millones de dólares en infraestructura
en dos cosas.
su arte en un objeto,
objeto al alcance
around the world
quisiera ese arte.
is devoted to these two problems.
dedicaron a estos dos problemas.
Empresas de transporte
and CD jewel case manufacturers,
y manufacturadores de cajas para CD,
and Facebook and YouTube
y sistemas de distribución
de diseñar estas cosas,
para la gente creativa hoy en día.
broken for creative people right now.
que genera dinero no funcione
part of the chain doesn't work
to be a creator right now,
emocionado de ser un creador,
a creative person right now,
y de ser una persona creativa,
10 años descifrando esta nueva máquina,
into figuring out this new machine --
infraestructura para nuestros creadores.
of infrastructure for our creators.
solo llevamos 10 años.
some really good ideas forming,
Hay ideas muy buenas.
what works and what doesn't.
qué funciona y qué no.
Who's heard of Twitch?
¿Quién conoce Twitch?
three to five thousand bucks a month
y USD 5000 al mes
over 100,000 dollars a year.
más de USD 100 000 al año.
y vloggers con bienes digitales.
to get paid in digital goods from fans.
en el problema.
a company called Patreon
compañía llamada Patreon
trabajando en este problema.
working on this problem.
de afiliación que
obtengan ganancias
for creators to get paid --
to earn a living.
para ganarse la vida.
for being a creative person.
por ser una persona creativa.
creadores nuestros.
subscribers on YouTube.
suscriptores en YouTube.
y 100 000 visualizaciones.
15,000 views to 100,000 views.
cifras, "15 000 visualizaciones"
when we hear "15,000 views,"
que no es algo auténtico,
as being not as legitimate
que escucharíamos en la radio
that you'd hear on the radio
en NBC o algo parecido.
see on NBC or something
launched on Patreon,
making 31,000 dollars per month
ampliar su programación
to expand their programming
en Patreon con la que
a second Patreon page --
USD 21 000 adicionales al mes.
21,000 dollars per month.
becoming a media company,
en una compañía de medios,
through membership.
para la Philadelphia Magazine
to write for Philadelphia Magazine
the magazine cut out all sports coverage.
eliminó su cobertura deportiva.
para su propia página web.
and publishes them on his own website --
pero por su cuenta
but for himself.
a month from 1,700 patrons,
al mes de 1700 patrocinadores,
gratuito para el mundo.
on the PBS digital network --
en la red digital de PBS.
alrededor del mundo
les pagan mensualmente
for documenting their travels
"Chapo Trap House", genera,...
"Chapo Trap House", making --
este screenshot,
2,000 dollars per month,
$2000 más al mes...
USD 56 000 mensuales.
per month for their podcast.
working on the problem.
que trabaja en el problema.
a trabajar en esto.
they launched Fan Funding;
con streaming en vivo.
to monetize live streaming.
to experiment with membership.
con la membresía.
tiene membresías;
paying subscribers
más de 200 000 suscriptores
of ideas and experiments
de ideas y experimentos
of getting creators paid.
obtengan ganancias.
generando salarios en su plataforma,
on the platform making salaries --
por poner su arte en la Internet,
for putting art online,
están en camino
of infrastructure is on the way
this time because of this --
entre la persona que crea algo
between the person who makes the thing
éxito con la Internet
had hit our first machine,
about 400,000 dollars in one year
USD 400 000 en un año
and brand deals and stuff like that.
promoción de marcas y cosas así.
muy agradable, me dijo
very nice voice he was like,
logged in my memory.
como ese anotados en mi memoria.
como una persona creativa.
not feel valued as a creative person.
generando ganancias para los creadores
at paying creators,
finalizar la secundaria y la universidad
are going to think of being a creator
Puedo ser abogado.
I could have a web comic.
Hacer un cómic web".
something you can do.
and respected profession.
sostenible y respetada.
de estos raros 100 años,
the other end of this weird 100 years,
and they're going to be valued.
y van a ser valorados.
esto no se den por vencidos,
to not give up --
and tools for them
y herramientas para que
que está empezando a despegar,
that's starting to take off,
to make money on it yet,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jack Conte - Musician, entrepreneurWith his membership platform Patreon, YouTube star Jack Conte may have solved a perennial problem of content creators -- getting paid for digital media.
Why you should listen
As a solo artist and member of folk-rock duo Pomplamoose, Jack Conte garnered millions of views for his offbeat "video songs," including his breakout hit "Yeah Yeah Yeah" and "Pedals," a robotic tour-de-force with a set that duplicates the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon.
Despite his success, Conte noted the disconnect between page views and revenue, and he realized that if you’re a widely viewed artist and you aren’t making money, "that's not your fault -- it’s technology's fault." His solution is Patreon: a membership platform built on recurring payments from patrons to support creatives with ongoing projects.
Jack Conte | Speaker | TED.com