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Josh Sigurdson talks with author and economic analyst John Sneisen about the massive demonetization move by YouTube in recent days following a controversial video by Logan Paul on the platform.
Basically, one guy with millions of subscribers makes a really dumb video. YouTube then uses that as an excuse to pull the rug out from underneath millions of people and stop them from monetizing their videos and making custom thumbnails, both of which are extremely important.
The rules play out like this... If you have less than 1000 subscribers, or less than 4000 hours of total watch time on your videos, you cannot monetize and you will not be able to use custom thumbnails.
This is a direct attack on independent media especially, and basically anyone attempting to get anywhere on YouTube because it cuts down the possibility of people growing on the platform by about 90%.
This demonetization process has been happening for a long time. Any excuse they can use, they certainly will use. Google has gotten billions of dollars in subsidies from the government. It is not a private business at this point, it's a government monopoly on information. The advertisers also have very little say in this. It's basically left up to a certain organization that we cannot mention in the description without facing consequences ourselves.
But let's remember the process of decentralization.
People moved from the telegraph office to the telephone with an operator. From the telephone with an operator to a phone without the need for an operator. From the news paper to the television and radio. From the mainstream media to social media. From centralized social medias to Steemit and DTube. THAT'S the answer to this problem. A REAL free market alternative.
Steemit and DTube are decentralized platforms on the blockchain. You get paid in the Steem cryptocurrency which you can then trade into other cryptos or cash if you wish. It's a massive innovation.
People from all realms of life are flocking to the platform. The worst thing that can happen is that you post what you would on Facebook or YouTube anyways only to make a few dollars. The best thing that can happen is that you can make hundreds of thousands of dollars. What are people waiting for? It's always about what's next in technology.
Stay tuned as we continue to cover this issue and provide more solutions in the coming months with a huge contest which we will announce soon.
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They demonetized most of my vids for not being advertiser friendly and then wouldn't review them unless I got a certain number of hits. Now I got the email they are going to to demonetize my whole channel too. I'm not going to put in a bunch of work on something then have some automated system say it's not worthy so I stopped putting up new videos a while a ago. This latest e mail is the nail in the coffin. Steemit there are no surprises, no big brother censorship. I would rather put in the effort here, I have done way better financially here too. I thought youtube saying the whole topic of Mandela Effects not being advertiser friendly was heavy handed, it's about as mild a conspiracy theory as you can get, but we got lumped in with racists and holocaust denial. I am kind of sour because I always thought my old youtube vids would make me money years later, I kind of feel I made them for nothing.
But Dtube seems like a sweet alternative!
Right on Dtube being a sweet alternative. Exactly what I've been thinking too with that yellow icon I always get on my language lesson channel. I've always been a good girl. It's annoying getting it. Dtube would be another great site to try, but for me only if I could successfully upload a video as I am getting an error for some reason.
What's your channel?
I am giving up on it but it's https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRV-lJI1KGhWSspVVnDym3g
My most popular video was a conspiracy video about Justin Trudeau being Fidel Castro's son. It was fun but I'm not doing it for free
Just watched your latest vid. You do good work!
THANKS, I'll check it out
It was too good to be true for a long time. Now at least we have Dtube or Steemit to express ourselves and make some bucks if we are lucky enough.
I'm slowly changing all my YT video settings to unlisted or private. That way the videos can not go viral, and YT wont have the ability to make money without also dealing with me. They did not even send me an e-mail, I had to find out on DTube :/
Edit: I make music videos; no controversial stuff at all.
Steem on mate. Have success.
they also demonetize mine, I worked for 3 years there to earn that $74, I hate them, they are really ruining it, I have even two video with more than 20k views, 3 years of taking care about my original content, it sucks !
Keep posting your videos on D.Tube and do summary videos of your video on YouTube with links to your full video on D.Tube if you need to. ; )
yes it's an amazing idea, thanks for it. ☺
light bulb idea lol
they also advertizing in all my video even if my motization is off there, they are just using our content to advertise it, they are doing really bad thing now !
What's your channel?
Change all your settings to unlisted or private.
how change to settings to unlisted or private will help me get my $74 earned in 3 years ?
It wont, but it will stop YouTube from making money on your videos if they can't be seen. In the mean time you republish your videos on DTube where you have a fair chance versus none at all. I changed all the settings on my best YT videos to unlisted, so traffic to my channel is dying.
it's better to advertise steemit and dtube on youtube now and let them close their store. lol ☺
I do advertise Steemit/DTube. Closing the store goes quicker when there is increasing cost offset by decreasing revenue. Greetings!
https://www.youtube.com/c/clixmoney
are they stoping the monetization because I advertise steemit there a lot ?
They're playing God and censoring people because their advertisers decide what content fits their brand and image. I am all in on decentralized platforms, we don't need govt's and NGO's running our social platforms.
There one limit to not able to monetize your content if you don't have specific views was the one which also disappointed me when I started youtube and then later I left it.But now the suitation has worsen.
We dont beed youtube guys.
Dtube is the future!
Lets see.
So unfair from YouTube I got affected also,might as well consider this.
Do it :D
The negative publicity of this might be a big boost to STEEM! It seems very arrogant and stupid on their part, but that's why they will lose!
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Its insane how youtube changed in the last 3 years, hopefully we have DTube now!
Dtube os bringing a lot of new users to steem!
I hope that they demonetize all of those fat lazy nomadic idiots on youtube. People getting paid to be homeless, America what a country
They are not idiots for a lot of these folk it is a lifestyle choice. Why are you so bitter that these people were smart enough to earn a living by sharing their lives in video? Good on em.
Homelessness isn't a side show.
They are not homeless, they are houseless, there is difference.
Yeh, i think you are right. that't why i am now interest with dtube...!
GREAT NEWS - MIGRATE TO STEEMIT!
Im going to have to start to up my profile on DTube 100%, its only a matter of time before they start crawling up to the small creators. Eventually YouTube will shoot itself in the foot as there will be too many adverts and the same creators with nothing fresh or new. DTube for the win! Im currently in the process of uploading all my travel videos - @samsmithson
Every up has a down. More power to the decentralization. We've Steemit, Dtube, Dlive, @steemgigs and lot more apps coming with their coins ....SMT...so, we don't need to worry at all. Being a Steemian means we're already ahead of time. :)
YouTube Sucks!
Dudes! I had this idea last night. I cut my daily video into Part I and Part II. My regular YouTube viewers started watching the Vid, then it said, Click the Link Below for Part II and they were forced to go to DTube to finish the vid, OR be left hanging.
At least this way some of them will get the idea that it's a free website and if they register on SteemIt they might actually make some money 👍🏼
lol, that really is a smart approach! The only downside is the registration process here, its incredibly slow.
I didn't wait that long, but some of my friends have taken a week!
Yeah, my friend is currently stuck in the waiting cue.
Youtube is going down! DTube is the future.
Youtube is a joke and always has been. Blockchain is the perfect technology to get everyone away from these big centralized companies stealing our money. They will realize that without us they are nothing and by the time they realize it would have already been too late. That includes banks and governments. We all need to see that when we post on Facebook or Youtube or even Twitter that we do not own that content. They will sell your information, rob you of any personal photos and/or phone numbers. Steemit is the future as well as all crypto technology. Goodbye Google, Facebook, Amazon, Walmart, Paypal, etc.. Let Youtube demonitize however many content creators they want to and they will end up losing at the end.
youtube is youtube.
This is not just about my two small YT channels. I'm finding less and less on YouTube that I even want to watch. I'm not into the sensationalist stuff. I'd never even heard of Logan Paul until yesterday, and I often watch films about hillwalking or bouldering made by small producers, as well as good alternative producers like James Corbett. But there don't seem to be as many good YouTube videos as there used to be, or if there are, I'm not finding them.
I think many of the YouTubers I like are just getting fed up producing their films for nothing, so they're not making as many.
I just wish I could watch Dtube on my phone, so I could watch it in the bath.
They did say a D-tube app is coming.
i created a dtube mobile app for android if you are interested http://github.com/powerpoint45/dtube-mobile-unofficial
Fantastic! I'm still with Apple... but probably not for too much longer.
Unfortunately I turned my back on Google and now have a Windows phone, so it wont do much good for me. But sure others will benefit from it.
This is the reason why I'm now uploading on Steemit & DTube.
How Google is handling this Youtube situation is absolutely baffling. DTube is the future. Great video on the topic.
I know all i need is 200 more subs now. just makes me want to push towards dtube more and more. sucks
Good Sign!
Thanks for the news! I heard about that from my boyfriend and his youtube channel, and i agree that it should not be the way for youtube to treat the creators...i think youtube becomes more and more unattractive as they do thing like that...but fortunately there are other platforms to go to ^_^
It is so sad for people who have put a lot of effort to build there channel and see YouTube trying to smash it.
I am happy platforms like SteemIt are available for Creators like us that have fallen victim to YouTube's new policies! This appears to be a snowball effect from the Logan Paul case. I don't even understand how this improves anything. YouTube can kiss my SteemIt!
Although I didn't make much from YouTube, I felt that their recent demonetization efforts were a slap in the face to the small creators who have abided by their rules, grown but fall short of the new rules. Whilst YouTube simultaneously ignores the two large YouTubers who have caused them controversy with advertisers as of late.
Even though I infrequently post on YouTube (mainly science animations and Science talks) and only have 27k views, I now plan on migrating all my content over to DTube. Even if its a minor act of defiance, I just no longer feel like YouTube is worth the time and effort.
So grateful that Steemit and Dtube are an option.
The Adapocalypse is ruinning youtube, They don't care about us anymore. Screw Them, dtube ftw
It is sad they keep calling them bad creators. Personally that is a completely uncalled for.
RIP Youtube xD
@johsigurdson The presence of d. tube, the users of steem so easier in getting steem dollars more easily.
Hopefully the steem could provide more surprises in the days to come.
the future is decentralized
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They demonetize my videos a lot too. And the sad part is they wait for me to make them public and then they turn yellow. By the time they review them the video allready got its views... Get like 40-50k views and make like 0.10$... great.
This is quite an interesting read and the content is real good. Thanks.
Thanks for you
Thank you, this is very interesting to read. Remember everytime youtube does something stupid it increases the chance of people going to places like steemit instead of youtube, by demonitizing channels youtube is also becoming less popular.
absolutely true, its always about the next technology that gives the power back to the people, its time for dtube to roll out their best marketing strategy and usurp the whole video media sphere.
This is all part of censorship. All of us should be grateful for creators of Steemit and the decentralization of the block chain. Great post!
I think that they're trying to show they're doing something to justify to their advertisers that their ads aren't going to waste because of all the reckless placement they've had in the past. It's just trying to cover their own ass but in the end I think it will bring more people to D.Tube
this is awesome anylisis ,i'm going to upload my video soon and make a thousand of dollars
Omg, I read about the Logan Paul incident and it's a shame YouTube is using this to cause havoc... How do they expect people to develop on their platform if certain rules like this are placed on it.. it's just poor and selfish from them.
@joshsigurdson In my opinion I think the likes of youtube are a victim of there own success with more success comes more greed! The writing was already on the wall when google bought them out! They only care about their bottom line and I can see Facebook going the same they are ramping up their greed for money on a daily basis to the point that I almost feel dirty and ashamed everytime I log out of facebook!
That why I can see the masses not standing for it anymore and Steemit will be the first to be adopted by the masses, although many copycats will follow which can only be a good thing but Steemit will be King!
Great informative post will follow and look forward to your next post!
Peace and Love
I'm not watching main stream news anymore and This is our websites new home
YouTube is declining!
YouTube also had stricted their policy for ads!
Good Job!!