TED中英官方演讲稿-JackConte_2017艺术家怎样在数字时代赚钱.docxVIP

Hi everyone. So, Im going to take us back to 2007. Id just spent about six months working on album that Id poured my heart and my soul into, and it was getting about three plays per day on Myspace at the time, and I was getting more and more depressed when I started noticing these other people who were playing guitar and singing and putting videos on this new site called YouTube, and they were getting 300,000 views. So I decided Im going to start making some Youtube videos. And one day they featured a video of my band on the homepage, which was amazing -- we got a bunch of new fans. We also got a bunch of people who, I guess, just didnt really like the music or something --?大家好 现在我要带大家回到2007年 我刚刚花费六个月的 时间在一张专辑上 一张让我倾尽心力的专辑 这张专辑在聚友网(Myspace)上 每天大概会被播放三次 当我看到其他用吉他自弹自唱的人 将他们的视频放到 一个叫YouTube的新兴网站上 并且得到了30万的浏览量 我开始变得越来越沮丧 所以我决定也开始 做一些YouTube视频 有一天 YouTube在它们的主页上 放了一个我们乐队的视频 那个视频非常精彩 我们因此得到了一大票新粉丝 还有和一大帮人 我猜他们并不喜欢我们的音乐之类的(Laughter)（笑声）Its OK because people started coming to our shows, and we started touring, and we came out with a record. And when I checked our bank account balance after our first monthly iTunes payout, we had 22,000 bucks in it, which was amazing because at the time I was living at my dads house, trying to make a living as a musician by uploading videos to the internet which literally zero people respected in 2009 -- even the people who were uploading videos to the internet.不过没关系 因为人们 开始来看我们的表演了 我们也开始进行巡演 我们创造了一个记录 当我查看银行账户余额的时候 iTunes第一个月收入结算显示 我们有了2万2千美元的进账 太不可思议了 因为那会儿 我还住在我爸的房子里呢 上传视频到网上去 试图以艺术家的身份谋生 在2009年的时候没多少人买账 甚至自己上传视频 到网上的人对此也并不乐观And so for the next four years, I uploaded more and more videos to the Internet, and they got better and better, and we made enough money through brand deals and commercials and iTunes sales to buy a house. And we built a recording studio. But there was one big problem: making money as a creative person in 2013 was super weird. First of all, the business models were changing all the time. So our 58,000 dollars o