Ad rev kerfuffle (Patreon)

Has anyone been following the youtube ad boycott thing?  I noticed the ad revenue on the day I uploaded the Sweet Boy Beach cartoon was lower than it should be, like less than half of what I would expect.  

Recently a google employee asked me if I had considered "making longer videos".  Yikes wouldn't that be nice if I could animate minutes of animation like shooting a video!  

Actually the answer is yes, the Sweet Boy Beach series is an attempt to create the low time intensity, longer content that youtube craves.  But it seems like that matters less than it did a week ago.  

In any case, ad revenue has been dribbling lower for a long time, for me anyway, so we're just circling closer to the drain.

I've come up with a couple of ways I could deal with this.  I could set a target for the patreon where I would switch all ads off on youtube.  And I could release the series I'm making now as a paygated stream on Vimeo or a similar site (all patrons could watch for free of course).  That would suck because far fewer people would watch it.

I'll give it some time anyway and see if things go back to normal.

On another topic I've started another Song Jam .  I'm not sure if it will be something worth animating a cartoon for yet but it's coming along pretty nicely.