YouTube Demonetizing Gun Channels

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Tim Harmsen from The Military Arms Channel writes:

“Sorry for the late text. I have a story for you. YouTube started demonetizing all gun channels last night. The moment we upload and video to YouTube, the moment it processes it’s immediately demonetized and we’re told we have to request a review after 7 days or 1000 views. This is happening to me, IV8888, Mrgunsngear, Yankee Marshal and every other gun channel I’ve talked to today.” On Facebook, MAC goes on . . .

This is YouTube’s new policy with firearms content. They flag it as not being advertiser friendly right out of the gate. You can request a manual review where a real person looks at it after their bots flag it. No big deal, right? Well, it is a big deal. You can only submit a video for manual review AFTER 7 days or 1000 views.

A video gets most of its monetized views in the first 48 hours. After that a video pretty much gets no views. No ads for the first 7 days means no money and the content creator that talks about guns is effectively screwed.

This is another example of why your support through Patreon is so important to the continued growth of the channel. YouTube is doing everything it can to run gun channels off.

If my Patreon support grows to the point where I can voluntarily demonetize my channel, you won’t have to put up with ads on my YouTube videos going forward. Please consider clicking here to become a Patreon subscriber as there are many perks to doing so besides just supporting the channel. Thanks everyone.


http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2017/08/robert-farago/breaking-youtube-demonetizing-gun-channels/
 
My old fart ignorance is shining bright this morning. Am I understanding this correctly?
It sounds as if I place a video on YouTube about (for example) field stripping a P320, I get paid when somebody watches it? Never knew that. Who pays and why?
If so that would explain a lot of the wasted bandwidth on there.
 
No, it doesn't work exactly that way.

You post your P320 stripping video and instantly your email server crashes from people telling you not to drop the gun. That's how YouTube works.
 
Daedalus-NC said:
My old fart ignorance is shining bright this morning. Am I understanding this correctly?
It sounds as if I place a video on YouTube about (for example) field stripping a P320, I get paid when somebody watches it? Never knew that. Who pays and why?
If so that would explain a lot of the wasted bandwidth on there.
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To a point, yes.

You post videos, sign up for their 'partnership' program or something and then start receiving money for views (there is a lot to it, its not based purely on views, some of mine had less views but earned more money etc).

Once you hit $100 bucks they send you your payment

People make livings off of YT
 
Jeppo said:
No, it doesn't work exactly that way.

You post your P320 stripping video and instantly your email server crashes from people telling you not to drop the gun. That's how YouTube works.
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bwahahahahahahahaha dang this is hilarious!
 
Internet media is effectively controlled by a handful of tech companies (Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, etc.), all of which are ideologically on the left. This was bound to happen.

The good thing is this may create the impetus for conservatives in tech to create right-friendly media, and get conservatives to make the jump. I've been hoping for some time that Trump would abandon Twitter and get on Gab (a Twitter alternative). But now that Gab has been banned from both Apple's and Google's app stores, that will not happen.
 
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Jeppo said:
No, it doesn't work exactly that way.

You post your P320 stripping video and instantly your email server crashes from people telling you not to drop the gun. That's how YouTube works.
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You know, I realized as I hit the SUBMIT button that there was probably a better example available!
LOL
 
HMP said:
To a point, yes.

You post videos, sign up for their 'partnership' program or something and then start receiving money for views (there is a lot to it, its not based purely on views, some of mine had less views but earned more money etc).

Once you hit $100 bucks they send you your payment

People make livings off of YT
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Thanks for that. Learned something new again.
 
There's a channel I subscribe to that does fishing, shooting, hunting but mainly fishing. He has to make a second channel to separate the fishing away from the gun stuff so he can continued to get paid off his main content. And saying they can't advertise on it is crap, they run plenty of ads on the videos I watch. I'm pretty sure this is the same crap they pulled with the conservative youtubers.
 
You tube is the only thing we watch at my house and it's 90% gun stuff. Yankee marshal had a video posted yesterday explaining what's going on. It's sad it has come to this. Being we don't pay for cable I'm thinking about giving a dollar to 10 different channels a month to help out. Probably different ones each month but to me their content is very entertaining and may help someone get into guns. To me it seems $10 is a small price to help out the second amendment and possibly turn some people on to firearms.
 
Catfish said:
So what about "their house, their rules"?

I seem to hear that a lot around here
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I agree just wish it was a two way street. I think this will hit youtube's (google's) wallet as well. Not that they care just saying I watch a ton of firearms related videos obe it how to's or competition technique/tips. If they don't want to generate ad revenue off my viewership then eventually someone with more business sense will create a new platform. Look at the old gatekeepers of news. They have become almost irrelevant due to self inflicted wounds.
 
Catfish said:
So what about "their house, their rules"?

I seem to hear that a lot around here
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Huh? I don't see anyone here calling for government intervention that forces Google to cater to conservative interests.

As I said earlier, I hope the frustration with YT leads to competing video platforms. So yeah, it's their house, their rules. Let's build our own house.
 
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So it's seven day OR 1,000 views, with "or" being the key word there. Is that correct?

When Tim at MAC writes that...
YeeHaa said:
A video gets most of its monetized views in the first 48 hours
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...he doesn't have to wait seven days if he already has 1,000 views. If he reaches that view count in the first hour or so after posting, he can request a review.

Not that this is ideal either, but the gun guys I follow on YT (primarily Rob Ski/AKOU, Mrgunsngear, and Demolition Ranch), hit that threshold pretty quickly when posting new content. Hopefully, at least - and "hopefully" is another key word - they're able to secure ad revenue fairly quickly. Or at least within that 48-hour window.
 
What's the turnaround on someone at YouTube hitting the switch? You can ask all you want but when they slow-roll the approval...
 
The biggest issue is that YouTube is taking these videos out of people's recommended lists and suggested related videos. So while current subscribed users will still see the videos YouTube will not suggest them to new users who don't search specifically for them. This slows down the process of reaching 1000 views for smaller channels.

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That SUCKZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ I spend alot of time on the smart TV watching all of these gun channel You-Tubers. I hope they find another venue I can migrate too that eliminates You Tube if that is what You Tube wants.
 
drypowder said:
Internet media is effectively controlled by a handful of tech companies (Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, etc.), all of which are ideologically on the left. This was bound to happen.

The good thing is this may create the impetus for conservatives in tech to create right-friendly media, and get conservatives to make the jump. I've been hoping for some time that Trump would abandon Twitter and get on Gab (a Twitter alternative). But now that Gab has been banned from both Apple's and Google's app stores, that will not happen.
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I knew Apple pulled that BS with Gab, but didn't know Google did too... not that I should be surprised, but that really sucks for them. Do they have an app you can get for unlocked phones? lol or windows phones or blackberry?
 
You can just read Gab in a browser, so it's not a huge problem.
 
Stout said:
You can just read Gab in a browser, so it's not a huge problem.
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Yeah, not that bad to use the browser. But no app means many people won't use it at all and that could keep it from gaining enough to really challenge twitter. Of course, if apple and/or google somehow disable it on their OS too, that could be the end of it. :(
 
drypowder said:
Internet media is effectively controlled by a handful of tech companies (Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, etc.), all of which are ideologically on the left. This was bound to happen.

The good thing is this may create the impetus for conservatives in tech to create right-friendly media, and get conservatives to make the jump. I've been hoping for some time that Trump would abandon Twitter and get on Gab (a Twitter alternative). But now that Gab has been banned from both Apple's and Google's app stores, that will not happen.
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Apparently Sinclair is buying up media outlets.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/...dia.html/RK=1/RS=Pw3myOmvkE_HfltRcLQwNBtnoKQ-
 
 
The fascism of the left continues.

This is Obama's legacy.
 
So its analogous to eBay/gunbroker, craigslist/armslist
Sounds like an economically viable door has just been opened for "guntube"
Should I start preparing a prospectus?
 
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nc-by-the-c said:
So its analogous to eBay/gunbroker, craigslist/armslist
Sounds like an economically viable door has just been opened for "guntube"
Should I start preparing a prospectus?
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How is Full30 doing? Haven't checked that site out in depth for a while, but hopefully they are getting good content and traffic.
 
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