YouTube is upping the barrier of entry for monetized channels

gamasutra.com/view/news/313203/YouTube_is_upping_the_barrier_of_entry_for_monetized_channels.php

>In a bid to better satisfy advertisers, Google-owned YouTube is changing the requirements for YouTube channels seeking monetization and will soon strip now-unqualified channels of their partner status.

While developers affected by this change likely won’t be losing a major source of income from the loss of partner status, they will be losing access to a number of partner-exclusive tools that may have previously extended their reach on YouTube.

>The new criteria for partnership and monetization require channels to have at least 1,000 subscribers and a total of 4,000 hours of watch time during the past 12 months. Previously, channels had to only have over 10,000 lifetime views to be eligible for the YouTube Partners Program.

>While the new requirements are already in place for new channels, existing partners have until February 20 to meet the new, stricter criteria or risk being stripped of their membership in the YouTube Partners Program and all the benefits previously associated with that status.

>“It’s been clear over the last few months that we need the right requirements and better signals to identify the channels that have earned the right to run ads,” explains the Google blog post detailing the change. “Instead of basing acceptance purely on views, we want to take channel size, audience engagement, and creator behavior into consideration to determine eligibility for ads.”

>Google says the change is intended to weed out the bad actors and spammers that have previously gamed the system, but it notes that a “significant number of channels eligible to run ads” will be affected by the policy change.

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THIS ISNT VIDEOGAMES

>yfw Logan Paul managed to singlehandedly ruin YT forever

This is it. The actual end of youtube.

Is it a bad thing?

not video games

Probably not. I think it's going to be the first major step in getting people like DSP off of the service.

I wish. We need an alternative to it.

No it really is.

Now people aren't going to be able to climb the ladder. It's officially closing the door to new creators and simultaneously encouraging more stunts like the Aokigahara incident, as those are the only way to penetrate those requirements.

This means less Let's Play garbage. It's good news m8

Anytime Youtube announces something it's usually fine to air on the side of "it's bad somehow"

not everyone can afford to take a trip to a foreign country just to act like a jackass for views. besides, those with talent rise above.

People today are so fucking greedy. Newgrounds didn't pay anyone for like 6 years and we poured out our hearts and souls regardless.

>and creator behavior
This is the line that worries me.
Who is deciding what is ""appropriate""?

>not everyone can afford to take a trip to a foreign country just to act like a jackass for views.
People will find ways to act like fucktards in their own backyards user.
>those with talent rise above.
No, they don't. 90% of the top youtubers are garbage.

Somebody explain to me, in plain English, what Youtube wants.

Meh, just more of Youtube moving away from being a place to upload funny videos and closer to being the new Television like they are want.

Fuck off faggot. The bar for being part of the partner program used to be WAY higher only a few years ago, and video quality has been at an all time low since they opened the flood gates for any scrub to put ads on their videos. All this will do is drive away the shitters who don't actually have any passion or drive and want to churn out formulaic/cheap content for easy clicks.

Make videos for fun instead of profit. If you make money doing it, great! If not, you still have a fun hobby. I know it seems like a shocking new concept, but back in the day that was the reality 90% of users on the site had to live with and the site still flourished.

Making Youtube into something people do as a "career" was a huge mistake.

It means logan paul and TV program celebrities are the only thing on youtube.
Thank fuck Twitch is becoming the next youtube.

Susan of course.

No, it isn't. ReviewtechUSA describe it all, it has nothing to do with Paul. At worst he accelerated what was inevitably coming anyway:
youtube.com/watch?v=jkeTsxqRb0U

They want to be TV.

Regular and larger subscriberships who turn up on a regular basis and watch videos 20 minutes or longer.

>Making Youtube into something people do as a "career" was a huge mistake.
That doesn't mean they should agressively tighten everything up. Now the options are to create controversy or beg for sponsorship form an existing youtuber to help grow you base.

More Money.

The same people whose first video they shadowbanned was on one for "race and intelligence".

Youtube dying would be a good thing.

The owners of the business who is providing to you their hosting service.

>the right to run ads
Holy fuck

>have to average 200 views per day at 3 minutes watchtime
If you arent shit this isn't a problem
>1000 subs per year
This is the problem. Niche channels will get fucked.

give me the skinny. What does this do? Is this the end of DSP channel?

It was Pewdiepie that started the decline.
Saying some racist shit on youtube. forced them to remove his youtube red show and start cracking down and roboticly demonetizing everything.
The problem with Logan Paul is that Youtube is defending him. He is one of their highest grossing partners.

Sup Forums - Youtube & E-Celebs

Not really when you really think about it. At first glance it might seem like it, but it's not.

but the big channels Im sure you hate (Game Grumps for example) wont change because of course they meet the requirements.

People will just look to sponsors instead, like Audible and LootCrate.

No, I mean, what do they want their site to become.

Twitch is so much worse though

>another dsp begging stream inbound

subs per year
I think it's a raw minimum, not a yearly ratio. even the biggest channel would end up being unable to maintain that.

That shit doesn't work at all. They make almost nothing from it.

More profitable and less risky for advertisers. They're tired of advertisers seeing unwanted content alongside their ad spots and pullling their contracts.

If you're a no-name trying to do a Youtube channel, it is.

I don't understand the logic all these advertisers use. Do people really see an ad for coca-cola then watch some guy scream nigger and somehow correlate coke to hating niggers? I don't fucking get it

maybe the 90% you watch is. I don't watch viner turned youtuber #393 and their daily vlogs. good content is out their...it's just a matter of going out and finding it.

they dropped Logan's partner status dude

Logan got 56k subs from that one video alone

VIDEOGAMES

It's either time to step up to being a non lazy fuck and produce decent content or get a real job. I like this.

A thread about video game controllers got deleted earlier, so you aren't entirely wrong.

>good content is out their
Now you're moving the goalpost. TOP youtube is garbage.

Fuck off with this bullshit user.

Don't you think this thread would be a better fit for /biz/ or /news/?

YouTube isn't really video games

>Now no-name Youtube channels won't be able to make that $2.50 per month they were making on their boring, redundant let's play and/or video essay channel.

OH NO! END OF THE WORLD!

Let's be real, if you have less than a 1000 subs you're not even remotely close to making any noteworthy amount of money anyway. People upset about this are retarded.

it was a different time user, 90% of Sup Forums was probably 3 or 4 years old back then. We were a smaller community that only cared about the lulz.

So, less ads for users to sit through?
How is this a bad thing?

You sure they dropped Logan's multi-billion dollar partner status?

maybe because it mostly comprised of people who put out content just for fun? most people make a career out of youtube. which means they have to take it seriously and not make any "fun" content. you see people say all the time hoe they are "depressed" when it comes to making up videos and shit.

Its more likely just 1k subs total and not yearly but thanks to english language its hard to tell

Coca-Cola doesn't want to give their money to this kind of people, it's that simple.

MODS DO YOUR FUCKING JOB

THIS IS NOT EVEN SLIGHTLY VIDEO GAMES

WHY THE FUCK IS THIS THREAD SO BIG

It's precisely because money got involved that people started becoming so lazy and greedy.

>multi-billion
I refuse to believe thats true

d.tube

Here is the replacement


Everyone gets paid.
Tell all YouTubers to come here or be a millionaire yourself

me? I come to Sup Forums for updates on the youtube platform and see what’s up with my favorite vloggers

No, it means more ads, it's just that now google gets to keep even more of the revenue from them and small channels get nothing.

Where are the mods?

thought that was hooktube?

Oh please you can't make a thread here about video games any more unless you have some fantastic bait attached or you're shitting on Nintendo otherwise it's just going to be shitposting or drop off page 10.

There's a reason why Sup Forumseekend threads left the board

I want to too, user.
I want to too.
But we don't always get what we want.

I'm not quite sure phil would get affected by this.

anti-racism is a cancer that needs to be eradicated.

Also, youtube operates at a loss, so Google needs to do something to keep it afloat. It doesn't help with the leftism that infects these cooperation. So there is another agenda here.

Busy 404ing threads unrelated to Sup Forums, like discussions about videogames.

Isn't coca-cola just giving their money to youtube? Why do they care that $3.35 of youtube's money gets dispenced to some turd?

This is YouTube for bitcoin literally

They don't. But old media has been running a smear campaign against youtube advertisers for years. The headlines on newspapers are frequently "Youtube is funding terrorism" and such.

Newspapers and TV are getting utterly destroyed by youtube so they're going for an all-out attack. Why do you think the NY Times went after PewDiePie? He gets more eyeballs per video than they could hope for an entire month of articles

how is that moving the goalpost? you said 90% is garbage without posting any examples or offering a video to prove your point. thusly I assumed you were going off your own opinion and bias. if these people made garbage content like you claim, they would not be at the top. people would see it and turn their noses up at it. so since you say that 90% is bad offer examples. hard mode: only name a youtuber who has been only on youtube since they first came on the internet. no viners or "musicians" of any sort.

Youtube was never good.

>tells DMCA abusers to fuck off
>allows titty streamers and goofy dude streamers to have equal successes
>not afraid to permanently ban very high viewership streamers if they break the rules
Do you hate Twitch because they have a diversity hire program or some stupid shit like that?

CORPORATIONS HATE TO SHARE

>? you said 90% is garbage
90% of TOP youtube is garbage.

Learn english you miserable fucktard

considering they advertised on the las vegas shooting a while back, it's safe to say all they care about is making money and doing it "clean"

People today won't understand. I barely understand it myself. We did it for the lulz.

Newgrounds was run by kids and teens who animated and made shit for fun.

Then they grew up and realized they had to start doing shit that shit for money and sites like newgrounds were useless to them.

ok then, 90% of top youtube is garbage. post examples that are non-biased

Whenever I go on Youtube, I can always find plenty of decent videos to watch, but on Twitch I find maybe 5% of the streams to be actually watchable. The subscription shilling on Twitch is 10x more annoying than it ever was on YT.

I was in god damn high school

This is now a trap thread because the mods clearly don't give the slightest fuck about the rules of the board.

I want my family owned business back.

>The subscription shilling on Twitch
The vast majority of successful twitch streamers never mention anything besides the Amazon Prime connection, which they are contractually obligated to do at least once a month.

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Mods don't give a fuck about anything

This.

>somewhat civil discussion about a topic that hasn't burst into a Sup Forums flamewar
>hurr hurr no rulez!!!111!!
enjoy your ban faggot.

Imagine how much patreonbux a good flash animator could have made back in the day if the system existed.

Not all of them. RandySolemn fucking died. He's the guy who got me into Newgrounds in the first place.

I don't often say this but

NOT VIDEO GAMES

>“It’s been clear over the last few months that we need the right requirements and better signals to identify the channels that have earned the right to run ads,”

Does youtube not run ads on demonetized channels or something? That's what it sounds like, I don't know what the internet is like without adblock. I just assumed they play adds anyway but the uploader just doesn't get anything from them if they're not a partner.

Most of them incorporate the sub nonsense into the very way they act, and constantly bring up donations or say stuff like "Welcome to le club!". You must have horribly low standards if you're okay with that sort of thing.

>muh Sup Forums boogeyman
watch out! we’re gonna get ya with our memes!

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user this literally has NOTHING to do with games. Hell him posting traps is more relevant to Sup Forums because we were once called the gayest board.

All those upstarts who want their own channel are gonna have to work harder to try and get it off the ground.
It was hard before, just trying to get out there and make a name for yourself. It's going to be harder now, with all these changes.
But if they are determined enough, really want it to work, and desire to provide as a content creator, they'll persevere and do what they can to break through.

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if we had today's technology in 2007, youtube would be no where as big as it is today. people would just using crowd funding system and only those who youtube as a hobby would go to it. no userbase = no ads for eyes.