DEMONITIZED! This YouTube Game... sheesh
I thought I was in the clear... the video launched and was immediately monitized. All seemed to be going well, then this morning I woke up to find that the video had been DEMONITIZED.
I'm done trying to figure out "why?". It just seems to be the new norm. YouTube playing games with all the videos.
Conspiracy theories say that YT is targeting smaller, "wholesome" channels especially those in the homesteading niche. I'm not sure about all that but it sure seems silly how many of us are getting hit with this.
In the last few months I've found it very difficult to get any views as well. With almost 40,000 subscribers you'd think that it wouldn't be that hard to get a couple thousand views per video. That used to be the case, but lately most of my videos won't even hit 1000 views. Weird.
YouTube won't monitize the video until it gets 1000 views in 7 days. If you have time to watch and share this video it will be HUGELY appreciated!
This really seems to be happening more and more! I watched it twice and still can't figure out why it would be marked as "not suitable for most advertisers". Might be time to make a video soon talking about Steemit to your YouTube subscribers!
That's the quickest way to get demonetized, talk about another monetization platform. LOL
Yeah...I get that might not be a good idea! Maybe it is something that would have to be done if push comes to shove and @daddykirbs doesn't care for YouTube anymore!
Exactly! LOL
Indeed I might. I've hesitated to mention Steemit too much on the YouTube platform because I heard that YouTube was targeting any mention of that word... but I guess I don't have a lot to lose now. Well, I could lose my money makers like the Kombucha, Growing Citrus and the Collecting Honey videos LOL
I suppose if it gets really bad then maybe you might do that! I would hate to have creators like yourself not produce the content they want to knowing that YouTube will flag it!
I'm checking out DTube right now. I've not really considered it much before today.
Might want to talk to Zac over at @mericanhomestead I know he checked it out and had mixed results. I believe until a better blockchain option becomes available he has been using Vimeo.
Yeah, I remember hearing him mention that. I've watched a few videos on it today and it performed alright. I'll give @mericanhomestead a shout to get a better idea of his thoughts.
I've spoken with Zac as well. Dtube is ok, but it's FAR from mainstream. It performs as if it is far from mainstream as well.
The ideal solution at this time would be to have a Dtube account, automate it with your product, and hope it continues to rise in popularity.
It would be difficult to imagine 'just switching' over from YT and Dtube and thinking your reach wouldn't amazingly suffer. It would.
Yup just turning into the normal anymore...
You're one of the few content creators that I automate upvotes for all posts (I use Streemian).
Hope you can get over YT's banhammer, you produce great work.
Wait, if they've demonitized you, who gets the money from this supplier that is advertising on your video?
Are you 'eligible' once you pass 1000 views to get the money already earned on it? What a racket!
I'm not sure about that. I think it was re-monetized just a little bit ago. I noticed the warning wasn't on it. SO WEIRD! I'm not sure how it can get demonetized for only a few hours.
More weirdness. When I view my video list sorted by Newest I see that the little green dollar sign is lit... meaning it IS monetized.
However, when I sort by "Limited or No Ads" that same video is still in the list
Yeah, they're still playing ads. This is from Creating a Bee Yard Episode 1...
Those stinky buggers!
Why did you not circle the word "limited"? One would assume that limited ads means that you will get some revenue whilst no ads means that you'll get none, or am I wrong?
Well good news... sort of. The video that this post was about is MONETIZED, but look at the videos above and below it :(
It just doesn't seem to make any sense about how they get demonetized. The Butterfly Garden video was fine until this morning.... and it appears that there are still ads on it!
Guess "advertisers" just have problems with the insect world! But only some of it...
@daddykirbs what is so wrong with moving bee hives...Really, from what I understand from many youtubers that I watch, they demonitize because of content issues that don't agree with certain people who control Youtube.
YouTube sucks man... I only use it to post the videos here... But honestly, same as other traditional social media, they have been changing their code to make it harder to get organically views, all their goal is to make you pay to get your video broadcasted...
It certainly is getting harder to make good things happen over there.
Also the adds are getting too annoying... Greed is taking them down...
That's why we started looking for alternatives to youtube. They demonitize videos that get 1000's of views and take a week to bring it back.
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It's just all messed up these days. And the irony? First thing that happened when I went to view your video ON YouTube? I was served advertising...
I noticed my very latest and "extremely controversial" Butterfly Garden video is now demonetized. Are they playing ads on that for you right now?