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Re: YouTube monetization analysis

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Some users are publishing the video as a private video first, get demonetized, ask for the review, the video is monetized again and user can publish it as a public video.

Are you sure that's possible? I've heard that a video needs to be averaging a certain number of videos (something like 1000/week) before they'll do the manual review.

My source is this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM-gFU74UzA. This could possibly be false.

Re: YouTube monetization analysis

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In my experience, Youtube demonetizes based on metadata. So any tags/descriptions with keywords that YT views as “controversial” the system will demonetize regardless of actual content in the video.

I uploaded a video yesterday that's already demonetized. It's part of a series to write an RSS feed reader in Python (specifically the part about adding static files to the server). Tags: python, rss, feedparser, feed reader, news aggregator, flask, css, static files It doesn't seem "controversial" to me.

I'm 99.9% sure it's nothing to do with your tags and everything to do with some sort of speech to text analysis google is doing on your video.

In my case, I have a demonitized tutorial video on how to download and upgrade my software.

I was a bit surprised since it was a basic boring screen share video. Nothing controversial either, until I looked at the auto generated close captioning.

I said "Prosper202" but Google heard "pr0st!tut3" (I edited the actual word just in case HN also has auto block filters) But as you can see, it's obviously a not safe for brands keyword.

I've manually fixed the closed captioning with the correct words, but as of now the video is still demonetized.

So I think there's some sort of blacklist of words said in videos that will auto demonetize videos.

In your case, after watching your video with closed captioning I notice you use the word "explicit" a lot in your video. Once again given the context, it's totally safe. But there's also a very unsafe context that I doubt google is willing to automatically monetize without some sort of manual review. (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en)

You can request a manual review of the affected videos, but only if your video has 1000 views in the past 7 days. For most small channels wrongly flagged, there's no real fix (for the old video).

The only real suggestion to test out is to not say explicit in your next video.

I'm also interested in hearing from others with demonetized videos, that may be suffering from the same auto captioning and blacklisted words issue.

Re: YouTube monetization analysis

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On the upside of this, I've seen lots more creators including sponsors in the actual video. (This video brought to you by Blue Apron) seemingly with lots of creative control over how they present it. This seems like a much more sustainable method. Ad blockers can't do anything about it, and they are safe from random de monitization.

On the other hand it's more work for the creator, and for people just starting it may be impossible to convince anyone to sponser them.

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Of course, this would mean that YT has handed 4chan a laser cannon to demonetize videos at their discretion.

So you're telling me there's a way we might demonetize "kinder playtime", "hailey's magical playhouse", "funtoys", and "toys unlimited"? THAT is a noble cause! Gimme the sixty-five. I'm on the job!

Could you elaborate on what these channels are and why you would want them demonetized? Are their videos actually sponsored by Disney et.al.?

Re: YouTube monetization analysis

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>>We used youtube’s official “DATA API v3” to get the top 25 related videos for 100k videos. We then scraped the related videos for information relating to monetisation status, views, etc. The corpus containing information of the scraped videos were then analysed in detail.

Anyone knows any such list readily available? I have been wanting to Scrape 100k video URL videos for my own content classification. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Re: YouTube monetization analysis

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>>We used youtube’s official “DATA API v3” to get the top 25 related videos for 100k videos. We then scraped the related videos for information relating to monetisation status, views, etc. The corpus containing information of the scraped videos were then analysed in detail. Anyone knows any such list readily available? I have been wanting to Scrape 100k video URL videos for my own content classification. Any suggesti…

Have you considered the Internet Archive?

Anyone where to get started with content classification would do well to consider Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems written by the former head of video classification at YouTube (https://amzn.com/B06XNKV5TS).

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15772174

Re: YouTube monetization analysis

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So you're telling me there's a way we might demonetize "kinder playtime", "hailey's magical playhouse", "funtoys", and "toys unlimited"? THAT is a noble cause! Gimme the sixty-five. I'm on the job!

Could you elaborate on what these channels are and why you would want them demonetized? Are their videos actually sponsored by Disney et.al.?

https://gizmodo.com/youtubes-creepy-kid-problem-was-worse-th...

Basically, it ranges from use of copyrighted characters, attempts to game the autofill system, said characters doing weird and non-child-friendly shit, and actual exploitation of children.

Re: YouTube monetization analysis

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I like how upon opening the doc I see for the first time ever "Wow, this file is really popular! Some tools might be unavailable until the crowd clears.Try again Dismiss" HN stressing the internet.

Re: YouTube monetization analysis

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Yes, it's one thing for serial content like a podcast or talk show, it's another for more artistic endeavors where it would lesson the artistic credibility to have an ad ingrained into the video. It's also not a suitable format for those who create many small 1-5m videos. Additionally, it prevents you from retroactively changing what ad gets sent with the video, which can lead to conflicts arising over severed busine…

> Yes, it's one thing for serial content like a podcast or talk show, it's another for more artistic endeavors where it would lesson the artistic credibility to have an ad ingrained into the video. > It's also not a suitable format for those who create many small 1-5m videos. I don't think having platform-handled dynamic ads (ie YouTube) differs from these dynamics in any meaningful way. The difference that matters i…

> This is a feature (of content-targeted advertising), not a bug. If a business model relies on tracking and targeting unknowing users who aren't aware that they can resist being tracked and targeted, maybe it was a crappy business model in the first place.

This is a false dichotomy.

There exists a large, partly unexplored space between hard embedded pre-recorded ads and targeted advertising that makes use of tracking.

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