Hm, the amount of ad revenue doesn’t have me worried. As I mentioned before, I think earning money as a webcartoonist is collecting nickels and dimes. I also think it’s good to not bet on one platform for your cartooning income alone.
As long as you keep your mind open for different revenue streams and be aware that you will not get rich on any of the platforms over night, you welcome every penny.
Earning money via Tapas is great. Earning money on Tapas and Webtoons is even better, even if it’s only a few bucks per month.
I might be a bit too merrily about it, but I know nobody will come with a huge paycheck for me to draw my comic. But earning enough to pay for art supplies and parts of my bills sounds good enough for now...
My worry still is with the accessibility. Thinking about how small ad revenue is on Tapas, I’m worried WT will only enable bigger series to have ads, simply because they don’t want to manage $1-$2 (or even less) per month for hundreds of comics. Granted, I have my hopes up because traffic is higher on WT than on Tapas (at least as far as I can judge on my pageviews and subs)
But it’s still no garantie and there is literally nothing we can do but wait and see...