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How to Support Herr Antrim
If you enjoy Herr Antrim's work on YouTube and on this blog, you can support him in many different ways. Here is the list of ways you can support Herr Antrim.
Sharing
The simplest, cheapest, and Herr Antrim's preferred method of support is sharing. If you know other people who are learning or teaching German and you think they could use some of Herr Antrim's materials or videos, please share this site with them. Herr Antrim has a real job and doesn't really need your money, although it is appreciated.
While Herr Antrim's preferred method of support is, as it always has been, that people continue to share his work with others, comment on videos, and like his videos, if you would like to take the extra step and make a financial contribution to Herr Antrim's YouTube channel and website, there is now a Patreon option for that. This will get you a variety of perks. Check out Herr Antrim's Patreon page and make your contribution there.
If you are looking for all of the materials for a particular video on Herr Antrim's YouTube channel, but don't want to support him on a per-video basis via Patreon, you can get the materials for individual videos on TeachersPayTeachers.
Affiliate Programs
Herr Antrim participates in a variety of affiliate programs. These are products and programs that Herr Antrim personally recommends and has thoroughly reviewed. When you sign up or purchase something through one of Herr Antrim's links, you support Herr Antrim's work at the same time, because he gets a percentage of the revenue from this sale. Below is a list of Herr Antrim's current affiliate programs.
At the top of most pages on this website, there are links to Herr Antrim's Amazon Influencer page. By clicking these links, the things you purchase on Amazon for the next 24 hours will be credited to Herr Antrim and he will receive a percentage of the revenue from that purchase. So if you are looking for German learning resources or you are planning on buying some stuff on Amazon anyway, start with Herr Antrim's Amazon Influencer page.
LingQ is a website that allow you to add words and phrases to a list for you to review later. These words and phrases come from the things you are reading and listening to anyway online in your target language (since you are here, that would be German). You can also use their website's library of text and audio for a variety of languages. If you upgrade to the premium version, Herr Antrim will get a percentage of whatever you pay on a monthly basis. If you are wondering what Herr Antrim thinks of this program and what his recommendations would be for this, you should check out his review below. This review is a bit out of date, as it is from 2016, so Herr Antrim will be updating this soon.
As a YouTuber, Herr Antrim uses a variety of tools to make his videos better and make sure they are seen by a wide range of people. One of the best ways to do that is TubeBuddy. If you are a YouTuber and you aren't using TubeBuddy, you should be. It will change the way you do everything. It will increase your productivity while improving your quality of video, SEO, and more. If you use one of Herr Antrim's links and you upgrade to a paid version of TubeBuddy, you will also be supporting Herr Antrim, as a portion of your subscription fee will be shared with Herr Antrim.
Advertising
An evil of the modern world has become advertising, however, it is the world in which we live. Herr Antrim has advertising on his YouTube channel in an effort to gain a little extra cash. While this revenue source isn't the main source of income for his work, he would appreciate you not using an ad-blocker on his YouTube channel. He understands, however, that ads are annoying and won't hold it against you if you have an ad-blocker.
YouTube Red is a relatively recent idea from YouTube. If you pay $10 per month, you will no longer have ads on YouTube. The $10 you pay each month is then distributed to the creators that you watch on YouTube. From a revenue share viewpoint, this is a much better option for supporting Herr Antrim. While currently only 0.4% of all views on the Learn German with Herr Antrim channel comes from YouTube Red subscribers, 1.3% of the revenue comes from YouTube Red. That means that with fewer views, Herr Antrim makes more from YouTube Red than from regular ad revenue. So if you don't want to see ads, but you still want to support Herr Antrim, you should definitely sign up for YouTube Red. As an added bonus, if you sign up for YouTube Red, you get Google Play Music for free. If you sign up for Google Play Music, you get YouTube Red for free. Bottom line, get YouTube Red. This isn't an affiliate program like mentioned above. It is simply a better way of YouTube being profitable and therefore making Herr Antrim's channel profitable.
Herr Antrim's Favorite Fans
My Patreon supporters are my favorite people in the world, because they see the value in what I do and want to help me to continue to do that. If you aren't a Patreon supporter, that doesn't mean I don't love you. Everyone's financial situation is different and each person must make their own decisions about where their money should go. You are free to enjoy Herr Antrim's videos and blogs without paying anything, but if you want to make a contribution, you can do so via Patreon and get some perks for it.