I pity all the animators publishing short content since they are going to have a problem get the number of hours in when they spend the time on quality product.
If they truly have a quality product, they can monetize on Patreon/Liberapay.
Changes to the YouTube Partner Program
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Re: Changes to the YouTube Partner Program
#162Someone (not me) is going to create a webservice to buy fake subscribers in the next hours/day, that's a guarantee :D It's not like creating a google account is exactly difficult ! Thank you Youtube for providing new markets for shady shops !
And now that I think about it, fake view time doesn't really seem difficult to put up either. The time is coming where you'll pay to have you video viewed so you can be payed to have your video viewed, looks a lot of fun :D
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#163I think people are missing the forest for the trees here. Despite what the PR says, this has very little to do with the relationship between YouTube and creators, and everything to do with the relationship between YouTube and advertisers. YouTube is renting out billboards at a music festival, and the advertisers, predictably, want to know who's playing. "Well, I dunno, like, whoever shows up" has proven to be an answ…
If this is their reasoning, then it is YouTube that is missing the forest if they think destroying the environment that fosters and encourages small content creators is a smart move. All of the big players started there once. As the taste for content matures and viewers search for higher-quality content, hacks like PewDiePie dwindle and pros like Binging with Babish rise. Locking into the cesspool of current popular channels is extremely short sighted. A wiser position would be investing in nurturing up and coming content creators or risk losing to a platform that does.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're making So only <1% of impacted channels might be materially affected.
Yeah, but that 1% how-do-I-do-this video is a big reason to come to YouTube. Auto repair and some construction videos are life savers. I think they missed the boat on fixing their problem by pulling up the drawbridge and cutting down on the utility of their service.
If the creator of that "that 1% how-do-I-do-this video" got $10 or $100 per year for this, then money wasn't the reason for uploading that video - so it means that demonetizing it won't cause such videos to stop being produced, they'll still get created and you (as a viewer) won't even notice the difference.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're making So only <1% of impacted channels might be materially affected.
Maybe so, but won't there be less incentive for someone new to post some obscure repair video later on, to help the few people who might benefit from it and make a few dollars?
Sure, there'll be somewhat less incentive, but it's reasonable to assume that it'll still be enough to get a sufficient amount of obscure repair videos. If there was never much of a financial incentive, then pretty much all such videos were produced for other reasons and will still get produced even without that financial incentive.
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#166I have a YouTube channel [1], which is only just above the new criteria - in the last year, 4300 hours of views, and 1100 subscribers.
I produce videos on using Cubase, and teaching it IRL was my main source of income until September last year (I got made redundant from 2 schools I worked at). The channel is a useful ad for the book I have written on the subject of Cubase and Music Technology [2], and has got me some sales - I don't have exact figures, but I've had a few people say they saw the channel, then the book ads, and then bought the book. The book sales in total are nothing remarkable (a year of sales is about a month's earnings from the jobs I no longer have), but better than nothing, and mean it's actually worthwhile putting the considerable amount of time needed into the book to update it each year when a new version of Cubase comes out.
The YT channel made $135 in the last year. Nothing to write home over, but it means that once a year I can buy a plugin that I wouldn't have done otherwise. A niche channel such as mine isn't ever going to earn real money, but it's a nice side bonus to get some spending money once a year from it - I put the videos up because they are a bit of an advert for my skills, and because I've got a lot of positive comments from people who have found the videos helpful. But I would feel somewhat aggrieved if I wasn't making this small amount of money, and felt that I was being profited from for making content for free. I know about the hosting costs, etc., but I'm sure YT makes money overall.
However, I had another video on my personal channel which had a MAME cabinet I made using a Raspberry Pi - back in the day when this wasn't that common. It made it onto the official Pi blog [3] - along with a write-up that I did for it, and currently has 180,000 views. I wouldn't have seen a penny from that if the new rules were in place, and that the new rules will stop the 'one hit wonders' who create something that goes truly viral (Charlie/Finger, etc) from earning anything is a little concerning to me - I'm sure YouTube will still place adverts on them (?), but if you're a one-off, then you get nothing. Won't this just lead to people sending potentially viral videos to a channel who specialise in redistribution who will take a cut of the revenue?
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/c/musictechtuition
[2] - http://tinyurl.com/cubase9book
[3] - https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/guest-blog-6-mame-cabinet-b...
Re: Changes to the YouTube Partner Program
#167Sad, but honestly I only made ~$3.50 over the course of 4 years by monetizing my videos.
I suppose I was a waste of time to begin with (for them).
Re: Changes to the YouTube Partner Program
#168I think people are missing the forest for the trees here. Despite what the PR says, this has very little to do with the relationship between YouTube and creators, and everything to do with the relationship between YouTube and advertisers. YouTube is renting out billboards at a music festival, and the advertisers, predictably, want to know who's playing. "Well, I dunno, like, whoever shows up" has proven to be an answ…
Creators, especially small ones, should strongly consider switching to the decentralized https://d.tube anyways. Much higher earnings potential.
D.Tube looks like pretty interesting tech. I hope it starts to get more traction.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Showing ads primarily against bigger videos Which does fall down somewhat when the jackass going to a suicide forest is one of the biggest creators (estimated 4th highest paid in 2017) -and- was a Preferred Partner. > means youtube has a chance to check the content Sure but they apparently approved his suicide forest video. https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/9/16869430/youtube-logan-paul... "[...] YouTube moderation te…
It helps a lot against all the ISIS videos that show ads where Google is getting a lot of heat in Europe.
Yes, because figuring out if you are actually sponsoring terrorism is hard. /s
No, the thing is advertisers do not want their brands associated with thing x. YouTube already has automated classifiers for demonetization. This is recognition that these classifiers do not work - from the side of advertisers.
Google could tell them "deal with it" and they'd probably oblige. The manual side was Google Preferred program.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe so, but won't there be less incentive for someone new to post some obscure repair video later on, to help the few people who might benefit from it and make a few dollars?
Sure, there'll be somewhat less incentive, but it's reasonable to assume that it'll still be enough to get a sufficient amount of obscure repair videos. If there was never much of a financial incentive, then pretty much all such videos were produced for other reasons and will still get produced even without that financial incentive.
Good luck getting subscribers though.