hello fellow freedom gamers...
I am here to give you a warning, a warning to those who wish to receive ad revenue on their gaming channels... (can still apply to larger gaming channels, but mostly this applies to gaming channels that get less than a thousand views a week on their videos)
First, i'll tell you what happened to me.
I woke up monday to an email, stating that some videos of mine have been tagged as "non advertiser friendly", and that if i think they were wrongly categorized i can appeal... I click the link which takes me to my channel video manager, and shows the videos tagged as "non advertiser friendly".... I then realize, over half of my videos were tagged.... From my CS:GO clutch video montages, to my channel trailer, to my military role play videos...
I think, okay fine, they were tagged by an algorithim looking for violence, like murders, killings, suicides etc... I'll appeal and it won't be a problem.... Well, youtube lets you appeal, won't review the appeal unless every video that this happened to, has 1000 views a week... Some of these videos are a year old, and will never get that many views a week... So, i contact youtube, tell them my situation... They do nothing, they tell me, to appeal, which i've already done, then say sorry, you don't have 1000 views a week...
So i contact freedom, tell them my situation, ask what if anything can i do to get ads back on these videos and going forward, what i can do to prevent my videos from being tagged non-ad friendly....
The response... To the first, of what i can do to get the ads back, they responded with the same as youtube... get a thousand views in a week....
As to my second question, they suggested i censor the graphic scenes....
Guys, the games i'm playing aren't showing nudity, or sexual activities, or anything like that.... MY CSGO videos were seen as not ad friendly due to violence...
All small gaming channels are at risk of being demonetized, and having no recourse.... tread carefully...
If this can happen to me, somebody who's most viewed video only has like a couple thousand views, and was made a year ago.... this can happen to any of you...
I am here to give you a warning, a warning to those who wish to receive ad revenue on their gaming channels... (can still apply to larger gaming channels, but mostly this applies to gaming channels that get less than a thousand views a week on their videos)
First, i'll tell you what happened to me.
I woke up monday to an email, stating that some videos of mine have been tagged as "non advertiser friendly", and that if i think they were wrongly categorized i can appeal... I click the link which takes me to my channel video manager, and shows the videos tagged as "non advertiser friendly".... I then realize, over half of my videos were tagged.... From my CS:GO clutch video montages, to my channel trailer, to my military role play videos...
I think, okay fine, they were tagged by an algorithim looking for violence, like murders, killings, suicides etc... I'll appeal and it won't be a problem.... Well, youtube lets you appeal, won't review the appeal unless every video that this happened to, has 1000 views a week... Some of these videos are a year old, and will never get that many views a week... So, i contact youtube, tell them my situation... They do nothing, they tell me, to appeal, which i've already done, then say sorry, you don't have 1000 views a week...
So i contact freedom, tell them my situation, ask what if anything can i do to get ads back on these videos and going forward, what i can do to prevent my videos from being tagged non-ad friendly....
The response... To the first, of what i can do to get the ads back, they responded with the same as youtube... get a thousand views in a week....
As to my second question, they suggested i censor the graphic scenes....
Guys, the games i'm playing aren't showing nudity, or sexual activities, or anything like that.... MY CSGO videos were seen as not ad friendly due to violence...
All small gaming channels are at risk of being demonetized, and having no recourse.... tread carefully...
If this can happen to me, somebody who's most viewed video only has like a couple thousand views, and was made a year ago.... this can happen to any of you...