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On top of the "advertiser-friendly" content that has already screwed over some YouTubers of ad revenue, YouTube has decided to give an ultimatum to their users who have less than 100k subs to up their game and produce content that can generate 4,000 hours by February 20th, or they will lose all monetization.

This is another stick in the craw that is YouTube's advertising problem.

I posted about it elsewhere, but apparently youtube's shit is getting so bad that other companies are looking at making their own ripoffs of youtube. I really don't think if Amazon makes a copy of youtube it'll be any better, but at least it would break google's monopoly.

PornHub might make a NormHub.

Rich get richer scheme, it seems.

"How can demonitisation be real? Hahaha, just close your YouTube account." ~Google

They keep shitting on youtubers this fails at getting them ad revenue, so they shit again on youtubers but this fails at getting them ad revenue…

YouTube sells your search queries and video history. The cut from ad revenue they take is a mere bonus. If Google has its ties cut with legitimate businesses, they'll opt to sell with illegal and shady companies. Unless everyone just up and leaves YouTube as a whole, they won't be affected.

I though it was way less subs than that, but christ. It's like YouTube doesn't want people makign money on their terrible platform.

Youtube need a serious dose of direct competition now. Get to it, Amazon and PornHub presumably!

To be honest if these smaller channels had operating patreons then they'd be making more money even with just like, 8 people donating 1 dollar. The ad revenue before was less then 100$ a year, less then 7 dollars a month.

Yeah, the thing is that not everyone can make a Pantreon

All im saying is that it's somewhat ironic that the people who arguably benefit the least from Youtube's system of ad revenue are fighting so hard to get it, when there are alternatives that give better and more stable revenue. Revenue that, by the way, Youtube tried to keep away from them by removing the ability to embed links to their Patreon into their youtube videos.

Just speaking as someone personally, I would basically fully commit to patreon and use Twitch as a primary video uploading site, and basically use Youtube as an publicity dump for my work, just to maybe attract some attention to my other sites. Making a profit from youtube unless you average over something like 10,000 views a video is already a doubtful aspect.

To me this just solidifies the fact that other revenue sites, for which there are many, should be how people make money being online content creators. Youtube is basically just a billboard to post your stuff, and shouldn't be treated as your boss. Especially given the many double standards and hoops it's made its creators have to jump through over the years.

@Black Graphic T still it is impressive how an empire as powerful as Google only manages to make one of its most famous services Youtube worse and worse accross the years. Remember the Google+ fiasco? Plus this is clear they have no idea what they are doing and it is going to drive people away if they keep this.

I'd like to think my search history could earn a couple bucks… too bad not for me though.