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Is there a name for this type of "guilty by association" algorithm?
K-means clustering.
This is one popular clustering algorithm. I think "clustering algorithms in general" would be a more accurate answer.
YouTube monetization analysis
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you're over-generalizing from one example. I follow a few differnt channels that are totally harmless and boring, and they all complain about demonitization. It seems like the algorithm just defaults strongly towards demonitization. Maybe it will learn and get better, but at the moment lots of things are getting demonitized.
To me, it sounds like what's really happening is that the amount of content has vastly outstripped the amount of available, ahem, monetization.
I want to believe, but then compare it with actual TV...
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#163An interesting read. However, when running a search engine we discovered there is a second order relationship between page traffic and advertising, that is click fraud.
There is a 'yuuuuuge' click fraud problem on the Internet where a shady advertising reseller and a botnet collude to put ads on things and do what ever action is needed to get them to pay out (click (CPC) or view (CPI), never execute a transaction (CPA)). It is also disproportionately spread over 'low volume' inventory. As a result if you're page or video is on the bubble (which means its not really that popular or what not) if it gets demonetized you may notice a loss of 'views' because the bots have nothing to click any more. Not saying this is the issue here, just saying it is an issue.
That said, early on in the AdSense for Content program it was pretty clear that if you were not ranking on Google's index and then added AbC ads to your page suddenly boom! you had a much better rank. I don't know if that is still the case but it was a scheme we saw people using to try to get their pages to rank higher. The temptation is always there if your both the supplier of the recommendation and you're able to benefit from recommending some things and not other things. All things being equal you go with the ones the might make you money.
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>In other words, if you video has ads, then the probability of appearing in searches and related content is higher So users that permit ads on their video get a virtual "fast lane" on the Comcast internet service. You know, I'm sick and tired of these internet service providers violating Net Neutrality principles. Oh, wait. It's YouTube? Oh, that's fine then./s
Youtube not providing extra promotion for content is different from Comcast charging extra to even access that content.
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#165I am almost certain another factor is clickthrough from "undesirable" referral links. ReviewBrah [0] (The Report of The Week) is the most family friendly channel with high subscribers that I can think of. He reviews fast food and has a unique fashion style and personality. Very clean. He has become a popular meme and is regularly linked to from 4chan. I struggle to find a single thing that could warrant demonetisatio…
I became familiar with ReviewBrah a couple weeks ago when browsing broadcasts on my shortwave radio and found his radio show. He sounded like an old-timey broadcaster and I imagined him to be a Jewish gentlemen and in his 50s.
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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…
This is correct. Videos are demonetized mostly on a blacklist of bad words. Run text to speech on the video before upload (preferably upload the audio only on a test channel and download the captions), and edit out all words which have any negative connotation whatsoever. Beware - the blacklist contains a lot of words which are only bad in a certain language or a certain region or slang you might be unaware of. Use u…
That seems like an absurd step to require for every upload. Their algorithm should really give me the benefit of the doubt after having required manual review dozens of times and always having my content remonetized.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
K-means clustering.
This is one popular clustering algorithm. I think "clustering algorithms in general" would be a more accurate answer.
I didn't know there were others. I heard about this from a journal entry somewhere on DeviantArt about 10 years ago.
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#168Does YouTube let sponsors/advertisers opt-in to advertising on "demonetized" videos at all? For example, let's say I really want to advertise on all of a certain channel's videos.. can I do that? Surely if I'm happy to pay money to do so, they should allow that to happen regardless of if big-name brands like it or not.
Somewhat...
https://www.polygon.com/2017/10/10/16453306/youtube-monetiza...
>A YouTube representative confirmed to Polygon that there are a number of “whitelisted” partners who are allowed to run partner-run ads on the website.
>That means they aren’t flagged by YouTube and used external sale forces to sell the advertisement for them.