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YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos

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Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos

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Post by andyjsong »

gizmo686 wrote: post #39
foepys wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think outside of a YouTube network, 10k views equals about $0.10 in advertising money. So it's not even worth to donate this to charity.

The idea isn't to direct the add money to charity, but direct your viewers to charity. Depending on your audience, 10k views could be a fair bit of money that viewers are willing to pay if you ask them to.

Right, so fraudulent channels can steal your video and monetize immediately with external links vs. ad money. But if you're a legitimate channel that regularly promote a charity, great! You're a trusted partner because this is probably not your first time creating a video about this cause.

I'd be extremely wary if a new account popped up with only one video asking for you to click on a link and donate vs. a established YT channel that is promoting a charity regardless of view count.

Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos

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Post by glogla »

throwaway2048 wrote: post #8

An important note here, if you cannot enable monetize videos, YouTube will not allow you to link to patreon or other sites. https://i.imgur.com/byCxnAj.jpg Its not enough for Google to ban you from ads, they have decided to cut off any other funding source aswell...

Yep. This move is about removing "advertiser unfriendly" content from YT, nothing else.

Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #38
anyfoo wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, so, how will uploaders update corrections and other additions after the fact?

Well, how about reuploading if you fuck up the editing process, and trying not to fuck up the next time?

Then YouTube dumps all of your views and upvotes for that video. Annotations were the way around not being able to edit in place.

Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos

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Post by deniska »

colmvp wrote: post #34
timothya wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Users can still put obnoxious annotations up. No, annotations are deprecated, you can't add them to videos anymore. [0] [0]: https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2017/03/keep-fans-en...

Seriously, good riddance. It added so much clutter to videos that I explicitly hid them any chance I got. I'd rather content creators just use the video description to communicate or edit their videos so that annotations would not be necessary.

If only there was a way to actually edit a video.

Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos

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Post by anyfoo »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #38
anyfoo wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, so, how will uploaders update corrections and other additions after the fact?

Well, how about reuploading if you fuck up the editing process, and trying not to fuck up the next time?

Who said anything about editing errors? I am talking about things like exploratory engineering videos, where the creator is speculating about certain things that get apparent only after the video has been uploaded, sometimes with the help of viewers.

It is for example not uncommon in teardown, some done by leading engineers in their entire field, to find out what some proprietarily marked chip is a few days after the fact. This is not a “fuck up”.

Reediting and reuploading a video just to change a single (but possibly important) detail is not only a colossal waste of time and effort that could be better spent on other videos, as far as I know it will also present itself as a new video.

Your comment makes no sense whatsoever.

Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos

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Post by PhasmaFelis »

andyjsong wrote: post #16

From the article it sounds like it's more cracking down on people who rip off other people's content and then use the link cards to get referral traffic to their own properties. I don't think legitimate creators need to be concerned. From the article, the minimum requirement to be a partner is 10K public views. That's a relatively low bar, and you shouldn't be trying to be monetize when you have that low of a view co…

> From the article it sounds like it's more cracking down on people who rip off other people's content and then use the link cards to get referral traffic to their own properties.

That may be the intent, but they're doing it in a way that hurts others.

> I don't think legitimate creators need to be concerned.

It seems that legitimate creators disagree with you.

Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos

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Post by norswap »

bognition wrote: post #2

Its about time. The Youtube UI has become a disaster over the last few years. It all started with the ability to let uploaders "annotate" their videos. I've disabled the setting to show annotations probably a dozen times and they keep coming back. I can't figure out if the setting is poorly implemented or if youtube is deliberately switching the setting back.

The answer to excess of marketing is censorship of the small accounts? This does not make any sense.

Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos

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Post by nickjj »

wickawic wrote: post #11
bognition wrote: post #2

Its about time. The Youtube UI has become a disaster over the last few years. It all started with the ability to let uploaders "annotate" their videos. I've disabled the setting to show annotations probably a dozen times and they keep coming back. I can't figure out if the setting is poorly implemented or if youtube is deliberately switching the setting back.

Agreed, but this move seems like a grab at Patreon and self promotion in general. Users can still put obnoxious annotations up.

I promote my developer courses on Youtube with external links and this doesn't really change anything.

It just means anyone in this position has to join the partnership program, but they can continue to NOT show ads on their channel (I don't like ads, so I don't show them on my channel).

10,000 views is honestly not a lot. If you follow any reasonable Youtube strategy for creating content, you'll reach that in no time. It's a minor inconvenience at best.

It does worry me tho, because in the future they may do other things to deter third party links.

Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos

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Post by LeoNatan25 »

anyfoo wrote: post #32
cm2187 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also the ability to illustrate a video with an image that's not part of the video, has become a click bait paradise.

Unlike the additions, I really don't see how that feature is benefiting the platform except for some uploaders by, as you succinctly put it, providing click bait. I really wish the video image would have to be a frame taken from the video. Make it any frame, if the uploader cares so much they can include the image as a title card and pick a frame from that.

Before the option to put a custom image existed, assholes would put the click-bait image for a few frames in the middle of the video. You can't win with such idiots.

Re: YouTube is cracking down on external links in videos

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Post by LeoNatan25 »

You know what I want YouTube to "crack" on? Assholes that say "But, what do you guys think? Let me know in the comments section bellow." Any video of those should be immediately demonetized.

This is a half serious rant, but seriously, video quality has gone so low over the last few years. There is practically a format that all those "professional" assholes follow. Does it really help them get more cash?

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