DTube - YouTube Demonetizes MILLIONS Of Channels! - What You Can Do! (DTube & Steemit For The Win!)

in steemit •  7 years ago 


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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!

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!

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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.

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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 ^_^

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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.

💤

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

I am seriously thinking about quitting YouTube altogether! My channel was murdered: youtube.com/channel/UCFvNTmDCQDKSZwsu188-PVA I can't get any views, there are some content creators who haven't swapped to Steemit yet so until then maybe I will use that globalist website! Honestly I can say that an old channel of mine was closed for no good reason and I cried. We don't need to be advertiser friendly in order to cash in on here! This platform is the future, I hope that I can push my content out there in a better way! :D

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.

No doubt this will have a direct negative impact on the quality of the content uploaded. A real shame.

Greed is a terrible thing.

nice information.

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.

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.

Youtube's monopolism must be finished!

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

dtube is the future!

Spot on, Josh. Time for we the people to reclaim our power from the corporate oligarchs. Thank you Steem and DTube!

I couldnt even monetize mine, because not enouth views!!!!

Please watch my videos and you can make my dreams come true....!!!!

Thanks for you

I'm not watching main stream news anymore and This is our websites new home

Thats why i have moved to D-Tube

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 didnt have a large youtube account by any strectch. I used it to embed videos into my Steemit posts. It is absolutely unacceptable how youtube / google are operating so I moved all my effort to Dtube. I have no time for any variety of censorship and wont watch another video on youtube. I hope everyone I watch moves over to Dtube

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I just checked my time and found out its "dtube time" folks

I just checked my time and found out its "dtube time" folks

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.

YouTube is declining!

YouTube also had stricted their policy for ads!

Good Job!!

Get a decent background already Josh!

The worse part is that even though they demonetized the channels they keep ads on the videos, so youtube is just stealing ppl content and earning money from it, i'm never using youtube again...

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So rad to get him in on this. Steemit is just getting started and as you have already seen payouts can be significant.

Fyi i saw you asking about steem payouts.
They work like this:
75% goes to you, 25% to your curators.

Of the 75% you get, 50% of that is paid in steem and 50% paid in steem backed dollars.

The steem backed dollars are paid out as if they are only worth 1 usd but they are worth more.

So $100 post will get you a 75 pay out, which equates to 37.5 SBD, and 37.5 usd worth of steem.

Since SBD are worth $5-7 usd each you are getting way more usd than it seems.

Make sense?

I have posted a blog asking for help from you all my fellow steemians! And I would be very grateful if you all could help me make this girls life better!

You can read more about it here:
https://steemit.com/help/@anthonytrades/help-is-needed-from-my-fellow-steemians

Very interesting sir

Which on a positive note is likely to bring a large influx of users here to Steem it and DTube

A real free market alternative! Thats exactly what this is!
In any case youtube is only following the law of diminishing returns as when anythings reaches the peak, it starts to decline

Very nice Video. I have the same problem too with tree of my YT Channels. Only One can be monetized.

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

YouTube is firing the last volley, they've got nothing left.

I understand you friend once I happened with a video that I thought they would monetize me, it was very horrible I felt very disappointed I did not upload more videos, I hope you can fix that problem, that you have success greetings

amazing, i am one among thousands of others who are disappointed with youtube this tits increasingly motivate me to steemit hopefully one day i can write as beautiful and as smart as your tears, nihon would be able to guide me

I will see the video, Do you have a channel?

We are going to take over YouTube, centralized bullshit lol

I dreamt of being a YouTuber and now I’m crushed. I have saving up for a GH4 & GH5 cameras to start making videos on the site but my content is kind of wired, because I suffer Asperger Syndrome.

I recently just learned that people with autism or any disability isn’t getting pay or monetize at all. I feel so defeated at this point.

I was hoping if this site will approve me because i want to make friends and make videos about my crazy ideas & stories.

DTUBE LOVE <3

D tube has not worked for me I use my post key and it says it is invalid looks pretty cool tho. I do I fix the login problem?

Yes it is very complicated but here is the procedure I use that I found on one of dtubes help posts: First log in to dtube or steemit with your channel name: For your password you use the really really long one that they sent you in your email, hopefully you still have it. Then you go up to your channel icon in the upper right corner and go into your wallet, in that area Between the top and bottom of the page there is ANOTHER SUPER LONG password and this is the password you use to log onto DTube. It is very complicated and really dumb in my opinion but I think there might be a place there you can change the dtube password but the Steemit password will ALWAYS be the super big long one which I hate. You might want to try out Minds.com and Gab.ie. Good luck Oh and also BitChute.

Oh and you have to go into your STEEMIT BLOG, this is where your "wallet" is. Here is some replies I got when I had the same problem:

cpt.laserbeam (35)in steemit • 3 months ago
RE: Please help: I cannot log into DTube with my Steemit Account... whats wrong?
To fix it, toggle the PRIVATE posting key
$0.00
0 0
heimindanger (66)in dtube • 3 months ago
RE: D.Tube 0.5: Big Optimizations
you need to use the private posting key for logging on dtube (a different one with lower authorizations). Please read…

It's almost as if YouTube wants to fail. Seriously. The opportunity for the Steem blockchain to take over is enormous that it is almost impossible to screw up. I wish the Steem blockchain a successful and prosperous future!

I got all my videos remonetized, but now Google is threatening to take my monetization away over the new rules. I have the 4,000 hours of watch time no problem, but not the 1,000 subs.

As for your claim that 90% of your videos were demonetized? Well, this is why I stay away from all the political and conspiracy theory nonsense and just stick to video games. Besides, political stuff always ends up with constant arguments and fighting, and who wants a channel full of angry people anyway.

Yet they allow bitconnect shillers to advertise relentlessly on crypto videos. I'm absolutely disgusted with youtube lately. I hope we the masses make a swift transition over to d.tube.

Absolutely interesting Post! will follow you

Great job . I like your post , i follow you and upvoted

To me it looka like youtube is trying to make most of the money they can make ... creators are earning less and less .

Is all about greed... they want to squeeze as much as they can from people through the ads and dont want to give anything back... one of the many reasons i see youtube being replaced soon.

You're right guys! Not only twitter have been shadow banning, facebook and youtube have stopped my comments from showing up for my anti-establishment, anti-corruption, truth seeking, critical thinking narrative.

I'm new to Steemit and DTube but I think I've read that our posts and videos can only earn money for 7 days so I was thinking of this approach: Post every new video on DTube exclusively for one week and after that put it on YouTube for the potential of passive future income. If you do end up with a big following, your followers will come to Steemit/DTube to get the first "sneak peak"

It is why I came here.Left them took all my content!

I have had my videos demonetized when they were fine. Now I am losing my moentization. I am parterned with Freedom Network, because of this stupid change, I will lose my partner ship, Freedom had perks like loyalty free music, I will lose access to that. I cannot think of other places to get music besides NCS and YouTube's library. You should spread the world about Steemit to your friends who are affected by YouTube's changes.

this is awesome anylisis ,i'm going to upload my video soon and make a thousand of dollars

Good to know that still have people fighting for freedom and free speech. Steem on. Have success. Globalists and deep state are behind of this Goolag ,YT and FB censor position.

After monetizing my Youtube videos for eight years finally, I have to say goodbye. They are going to terminate my channel's partnership in February. If I wanna keep it then within a week I have to generate 400k views. Sounds easy for a reputed Youtubers. Dtube seems to be promising. I am a new member here and hopefully, going to migrate all my Youtube videos and make some bucks here.

Nicely explained

my youtube channel soon will demonitized as well as I just got 600 subscribers..I need another 400 susbcribers.. I not really that active in youtube..just posting once in a while but received the email from youtube about demonitization...

Somehow I got trigger to know what happen to all those youtubers who really really work damn hard and suddenly got fired by youtube.

That's when I come to know they shift to DTube and now I'm also here become one of streemit community.

You're very talented - and I enjoy your content! Will you ever cover the really important stuff concerning Americans, like:

https://steemit.com/education/@ournewfilmprod/5g-technology-smart-cities-smart-dust-internet-of-things-and-our-future

https://steemit.com/education/@ournewfilmprod/targeted-individuals-americans-are-still-be-tortured-with-directed-energy-weapons

https://steemit.com/technology/@ournewfilmprod/human-microchipping-smart-grid-the-internet-of-things-and-transhumanism-is-here

https://steemit.com/technology/@ournewfilmprod/nobody-in-america-is-talking-about-this-this-video-is-blocked-in-almost-every-country-2017-2018

https://steemit.com/technology/@ournewfilmprod/the-war-has-begun

There is so much more that no one is talking about. The technology used to target people operate off the mobile platform. When 5G is implemented..God have mercy on us.this stuff can alter our DNA; the technology can be used to remotely maim or kill. It's been in use for some time now. 5G will take it off the rails.

youtube is becoming boring

Nice post :)

I'm proud of you, keep on working.
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my support let me add the spirit :)
I wait your presence in my post :) @joshigurdson

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