YouTube changed Terms of Service considering monetization
Few days ago i got an email from YouTube about the change of Terms of Service. One of the changes is Monetization.
Minimum requirements to join Youtube partnership program:
Follow all the YouTube monetization policies. ...
Live in a country or region where the YouTube Partner Program is available.
Have more than 4,000 valid public watch hours in the last 12 months.
Have more than 1,000 subscribers.
Have a linked AdSense account.
So if you don't have 1,000 Subscribers and 4,000 watch hours in the last 12 months you CAN'T monetize your videos, but YouTube CAN do it now.
YouTube will now monetize all videos on the platform that they see as suitable. If you are not in the YouTube Partner Program YouTube will now monetize your videos and all the ad revenue will go to YouTube.
You as a content creator will get 0% of it.
Everyone involved in this is at a loss, except YouTube.
Creators that are in the Partner Program will earn less because there are now more videos that will share the total number of ads.
Creators that are not in the Partner Program will earn 0, but YouTube will earn from their content.
If you are not in the Partner Program and your video goes viral, YouTube can play ads on your video while you are waiting to get your Partnership Program approved. So few million views of monetization will go to YouTube. They could even postpone it, so even more money goes to them.
How much money is there?
This is just an estimate that is made from the info of my account few years ago. Also, the number of accounts that upload videos is really a guesstimate.
There are 2 billion logged-in monthly users. Let's say only 10% are uploading videos, and let's say half of that is monetizable.
That is 100,000,000 accounts.
From 2017 when i had my YouTube account monetization in 10 months i made 10$ from it. My account somewhere from 70-90 subscribers and my videos were getting up to 500 views. And most of my videos are monetizable. So 1$ a month. And i live in Serbia, so that affects the revenue from ads a lot.
100,000,000 x 1$ =___________________ a month.
Not bad YouTube, not bad. And i feel that i downplayed it.
I heard some thoughts that YouTube did everything to become a monopoly in the industry and now they are moving to fully cash in on it. Is there a way to change that? Could we make a difference?
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Hopefully 3Speak brings out its decentralized video storage platform very soon. This will enable people to migrate away from YouTube and onto something that helps them instead of having them bilked by YouTube.
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from the talks it looks like they have a good plan. The problem is that you need a lot of people participating to get a good playback of videos, but i think 3speak plans to cover it with their resources until enough of people are in it.
And then we can hope and help people to see that there is something else than youtube. It could happen, i hope it will.
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I think they are going to get people involved by offering an airdrop.
Dan seems big on if you want someone to do something, give then incentive.
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It's funny seeing your post, although there's nothing to laugh about here.
Last night @livinguktaiwan did a post about how much she's been earning on other social media platforms. Pretty much what you're saying.
It's time to move to a different direction and this move of YouTube just made 3speak more interesting for the masses.
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i got here shortly after they kicked all the small creators out of monetization (not directly connected) now they decided they will take 100% of it.
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Maybe they won't get 100% of that money, in the cases the video has cpyright songs for exemple. YouTube couldn't monetize it without giving at least a part of the earnings for royalties.
But this is another Middlefinger from Youtube to the creators, as the platform is doing since years. I really hope that other platforms which manage ads revenue in a better way take the place of google. Because Youtube isn't producing so much money if you look at what they spend for servers and maintenance. They really should have better moderators to remove innapropriate videos instead of demonetize other well made that are just talking about edgy content.
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the copyright is a whole nother discussion.
i get that the server costs are big and i don't mind if they monetize everything, but telling you that your content is not good enough for you to monetize but it is good enough for them to monetize...
Youtube has become a joke for creators. the only reason they use it is the masses of traffic. Most youtubers earn money via twitch anyways...
from what i understand the ad revenue for big creators is somewhere down the list but it is a bit blah when youtube tells you, you cant monetize your videos but we will.
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Crazy times we live in. Hopefully, 3speak and those can help out.
the 3speak is certainly more fair to creators. The thing that got me a bit pissed off is that youtube say your content is not good enough for you to monetize it, but it is good enough for us to monetize it.
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That is something you should put on youtube or any other mainstream platform, not on HIVE, because the people here on HIVE, we know that.
Anyway... I think is fair because we do not pay anything for uploading to YouTube, compared to the 10% cut of the earnings when uploading to 3Speak or Dtube. Someone could upload Terabytes of Videos (speaking in length and in quality) to YouTube, let's say private videos and they won't charge you anything.
Personally, I don't care if they put ads on every single video on the platform, the people will start sooner or later view it as a normal thing and they will get used to it.
But I will get very pissed when they don't allow adblock or Brave browser on the site and have to view every single ad from another browser.
Hope you'll understand my point of view.
Cheers.
i do understand your point of view, especially the point that you could upload it for free, but
you can also upload for free on 3Speak or Dtube. they are taking a cut from what you earn. Youtube takes 45 percent from your ad revenue, if you are able to monetize by their rules. If you are not able to monetize, then they will take 100%. 10% does not sound that bad.
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