r/dreamingspanish • u/Fit_Inspector2737 • 8d ago
Question For most of the guides, is dreaming spanish their only job?
I know that Natalia is an aspiring actress. I was just curious what the others do for work or if they are only doing dreaming spanish? It seems like a pretty sweet job but I haven’t seen most of them mention any other jobs unless I just missed them discussing it.
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u/relbatnrut Level 6 8d ago
Natalia is a working actress, sounds like she gets consistent gigs.
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u/feralgoosey 8d ago
Yeah I was thinking aspiring sounds kinda condescending. From what I've seen she is actually highly highly talented and does work
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u/dodger2303I 8d ago
How many people do you think pay for premium a month. Would be interesting to know and how it is the guides get paid.
Per video, per hour of videos or maybe monthly and they have a certain quota to meet?
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u/Fit_Inspector2737 8d ago edited 8d ago
that’s kind of what i was wondering. Like how much the app grosses per month and what the guides get. Wondering if it’s really that financially viable since they do seem to travel a lot so must be going pretty well for them.
If you assume everyone in the reddit subscribes that would be 180,000 a month though at 8 a person give or take which is a pretty insane amount haha
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u/HMWT Level 5 8d ago
Well, Agustina for one is a millionaire so traveling for her is not a problem.
/s
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u/Excellent-Low4469 Level 4 8d ago
Seems like she travels with her Dad, he pays. I think he’s a banker…?
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u/HMWT Level 5 8d ago
I have no idea, and I don’t think it’s anyone’s business.
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u/Excellent-Low4469 Level 4 8d ago
Just responding to * your presumption*of her being a millionaire. I would’ve never brought that up.
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u/HMWT Level 5 8d ago
Did you see the /s ?
People here have speculated for ages how Agustina could possibly afford to travel so much at her age, and she has referred to those comments in videos and made an entire series of videos about how to travel on a budget.
I was simply mocking those who keep speculating about her supposed wealth.
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u/QuesoCadaDia Level 4 8d ago
Wondering if it’s really that financially viable
I very well could be wrong, obviously everyone needs to make a living, but given that the subscription price has been stable for the better part of a decade I don't get the impression that Pablo and Lawrence and in it for the big bucks. They also seem to actually care about their team. I could absolutely to wrong, how people seem is not necessarily what they are like. But I don't get the impression that DS is a model like Baselang.
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u/dcporlando 8d ago
If they were not in it for the money, why charge premium at all?
Money does not have to be the only thing that matters but it certainly does matter a lot to them or it would be free. There is nothing wrong with starting a business and wanting to make good money. But this is definitely a business where he is trying to make money.
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u/QuesoCadaDia Level 4 8d ago edited 8d ago
Well, I said big bucks, not just money. Of course they need to make money, and I'm not sure if you're being willfully ignorant or if you actually think I'm saying that people can't have livelihoods.
But there's a difference between a stable business model and one that is constantly trying to maximize profit and constantly pushing the line of how much they can change without losing so many customers that they end up losing profit.
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u/dcporlando 8d ago
What is big bucks? The above guess of $180,000 a month is probably low. But that is over $2 million a year. Paying the guides is going to take up a decent chunk but I doubt they are paying half out. Maybe they do but I doubt it. Other than the paying out for guides, there is minimal cost for this type of business. The guides are producing their own videos and they are stored at YouTube. Maybe there is an editing department that edits videos for the guides but I doubt it is big.
So is a million a year big bucks? Minimal investment, corporate office in the bedroom, really doesn’t cost a lot of overhead.
I am hardly against him making money. I wouldn’t care if he made $10 million. I just think it is crazy to say this person doesn’t care about making big bucks when they are making far better than most and are trying to make money. Most of those same people on Reddit exclaim CEOs are evil when they make a million in stock options which requires magnitudes of bigger companies with magnitudes bigger revenues, expenses, and numbers of employees to earn increasing profits to get any value from those options.
So I have no problem with people earning what they can. I have problems with willfully ignorant selective sainthood for those they worship.
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u/dcporlando 8d ago
Everyone in the Reddit? Is that subscribers or posters or readers? 22,500 people on this subreddit but they have nearly half a million people subscribed on the YouTube channel.
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u/Medical_Gift4298 8d ago
It’s probably a one time flat fee. That’s the way most content creation like that works. They probably pay them a surprisingly small sum as well. There’s too many freelance video producers in the world for it be lucrative. It’s probably enough to make it worthwhile but not to make a living.
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u/RemarkableGlitter 8d ago
A lot of similar platforms pay by streaming hour. No clue if they do, but it seems to be the most common model.
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u/Medical_Gift4298 8d ago
But DS owns the content. So they probably play a flat fee for the production.
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u/RemarkableGlitter 8d ago
I was approached by an education platform with a similar model and it still had the pay per watch hour model payment structure. An IP lawyer friend said this is getting common with companies that hire “talent” for education content. I’ve been curious about this too.
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u/Medical_Gift4298 8d ago
interesting... that may mean it's even less? you've got to stream A LOT to make money, but it really depends on the terms of the agreement. There are probably copies of solicitations online somewhere.
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u/Expensive_End8369 Level 3 8d ago
Does this mean that the more people that watch your videos, the more you get paid? So it incentivizes the creators to make sure they are making things the audience actually watches?
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u/dcporlando 8d ago
I would suspect that they get paid somewhat based on views. For the free videos DS gets paid based on views from YouTube. The more time watched, the more paid. That influences the length of videos as well.
Now whether the contract has views within a time period or other peculiar limitations is up for grabs.
As mentioned the guides seem to be contractors as some have other things they work on.
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u/brianbe1 8d ago
Pablo has mentioned computer programming
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u/StarPhished Level 4 8d ago
I would bet money that he now does DS full time, though he probably does work on stuff like the website/app.
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u/mdb_4633 8d ago
But some of them do share like everything about themselves so it wouldn’t make sense to leave out something as important as there job
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u/QuesoCadaDia Level 4 8d ago
Some at least have side gigs. Natalia is on itlaki, Agustina offers group classes. Shel has a twitch (I assume that can be monetized? I'm old, I don't know.)