12-10-2013, 03:28 AM
Seems like Google's gonna be cracking down on monetization of videos soon.
This new approval system for monetization basically means that unless you own 100% of the content in your videos, you won't get a dime starting January 2014. Commentary (e.g. Let's Plays) over videogame footage? Using bits of someone else's video to make a video response? Kiss your money goodbye! Some may say that this is a way to encourage as much originality as possible, but fuck that noise; that's restrictive and de-incentivizing as shit, not to mention severely devaluing what is legitimately original content just because it happens to also coexist with non-original content. Though this doesn't personally screw me over, this will fuck up a lot of people on YT that I respect and admire, so y'know what?
I'm finally fucking done. I'm migrating to DailyMotion (and hopefully I'll actually start doing stuff there).
This new approval system for monetization basically means that unless you own 100% of the content in your videos, you won't get a dime starting January 2014. Commentary (e.g. Let's Plays) over videogame footage? Using bits of someone else's video to make a video response? Kiss your money goodbye! Some may say that this is a way to encourage as much originality as possible, but fuck that noise; that's restrictive and de-incentivizing as shit, not to mention severely devaluing what is legitimately original content just because it happens to also coexist with non-original content. Though this doesn't personally screw me over, this will fuck up a lot of people on YT that I respect and admire, so y'know what?
I'm finally fucking done. I'm migrating to DailyMotion (and hopefully I'll actually start doing stuff there).