Google is just the worst! No wonder they have been attacking the whole internet with "invalid traffic concerns", aiming to demonetize most creators so they keep the money to themselves. smh !
Youtube Starts Robbing Creators [NEW Policy]
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TheVigilante
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And do the facial recognition rules mean no one can use an image of pop stars and other personalities in a video. That will wipe out 75% of YT content if rigorously applied by YT.
- Jul 26, 2016
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No, i think there is a fine line there. Some advertisers do not want to advertise on gun/drug related videos for example. I think what Youtube is rather targetting is something like demonetized channels that actually have videos that are advertiser friendly but (surprisingly) break Youtube's ToS (Compilations for example).
Yeah or what about people that actually do not want to advertise on their channel? There are plenty of big Youtubers out there that are choosing not to advertise (even if they could) and Youtube just reserves the right now, to actually put ads on these videos no matter if the channel creator likes it or not.
jake lionar
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Yeah I knew a lot of youtube channels that have millions of sub and dont monetize their video, and after searching i found out that they do that for their fans since a lot of people if not all hate watching ads like every 2min..
what is the main obstacl to compete with youtube? i mean for real!! they play alone with 0 competition.
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Now YouTube will start monetizing game hacks, nude yoga, and cpa videos too 
- Mar 30, 2018
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Sad scene but what will it take to make a YouTube rival DM is there but it kinda sucks what is the kind of infrastructure we’re talking here?
TheVigilante
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There are two different issues here. One is YT tightening up their intellectual property rights compliance and enforcement.
The other is expanding their advertising inventory.
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Something similar. A few other things you might have in store....
A number of years ago I used to sell a lot of books on Amazon KDP.
Then Amazon decided instead of paying per book they would pay per page read in the book.
TBH I did not care because they left a technical loophole I could exploit.
But then they started doing other things...
"We cannot verify your traffic" so we will not be paying you this month.
"We are going to cap the amount of pages we will pay you for"
Thin end of the wedge, time to leave and figure out your own monetization.
They are all going the same way, when you are a publicly traded company, got to grow them profits!
A number of years ago I used to sell a lot of books on Amazon KDP.
Then Amazon decided instead of paying per book they would pay per page read in the book.
TBH I did not care because they left a technical loophole I could exploit.
But then they started doing other things...
"We cannot verify your traffic" so we will not be paying you this month.
"We are going to cap the amount of pages we will pay you for"
Thin end of the wedge, time to leave and figure out your own monetization.
They are all going the same way, when you are a publicly traded company, got to grow them profits!
TheVigilante
Banned - Multiple Rules Violations
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I think YT are going to put ads on videos that are not monetized by the uploader. With their consent or not. They justify it because they provide a free platform and want to capitalize on the advertising
pj777777
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Absolutely.
Recently started an email list and it is sobering seeing the % of emails that are gmail.
Monopolies and oligopolies need to be regulated and broken up to allow competition.
ziko12345
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Well thats fucking ridiculous. They made it harder to join YPP so they can check the quality of a channel. They cant put ads on every non monetized channel because that would bring an adpocalypse so they would have to do a manual review to the channels. But if the channel is good enough to run ads why wouldn't they put it to YPP? So they can steal money. Nice!
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They did this change months before .
AnotherOne
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Amalgam
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I wasn’t thinking about monetising YouTube back then- was it a massive crash of RPM at the time? Or did the rev share percentage change?
Sorry for my ignorance
- Jul 26, 2016
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Crash of CPM basically. The earnings plummeted for almost everyone. That was also the time when Youtubers started to develop their own merchandise as Youtube was not a lucrative money-maker anymore. Still isn't btw.
NEWBIE MONEY EBOOKS
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All I got from that is rich get richer
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Thanks for this thread. That's why I have been getting so many Youtubes mail about changes in policy which I deleted without opening. But how can google make money off someone's work without paying them a cut? This seems highly unethical.