Kordanor
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Youtube announced that they want to fight exploitive accounts by making the barrier to enter the youtube partner program higher (link).
That means from the 20th February onwards you will need to have 1000 Subscribers and 4000h watched during the last 12 months, which hurts lots of the small youtubers as well.
Even old channels putting out content for years like mine are affected as these channels will actually lose their status.
And by losing the status, you don't just lose the possibility to monetize on the videos, you also lose the ability to use the "cards" which, after youtube disabled notations, are now the only way to link to other videos during a video.
In addition you will also not be able to use the end screen which also enables you to link to other videos or external pages with more info.
Personally I created 2 channels to separate my Reviews from the more "spammy" Let's Play channel. But this now bites me in the ass.
While I will easily surpass the amount of needed hours on the let's play channel (atm I am at 24612h) I am only at 623 Subscribers at the moment.
On my Review channel however I am not meeting either of the goals. I am only at 1120 hours of the needed 4k, and at 341 Subs.
As there are mostly German Videos on my channel and I am mostly playing niche games I guess my audience is rather small.
But by losing these features it would become even harder to grow the channel.
So…well, this thread serves multiple purposes. One is to let you know. The other one is basically a cry for help on my end: It would be great if you could subscribe to my 2 channels. You don't even need to watch or "like" anything, just subscribing would already help a lot.
This is my Let's Play Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Kordanor1982
This is my Review Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkxgQnnyuRxotg34KmFuUdw
And just to show you the (I think) only 2 short videos I did in english a while ago:
Flawed Dungeon Crawler Mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPG474b7TTI
GalCiv 3 first steps tips (exploiting the systems, was luckily fixed now): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY5i6CurT88
That means from the 20th February onwards you will need to have 1000 Subscribers and 4000h watched during the last 12 months, which hurts lots of the small youtubers as well.
Even old channels putting out content for years like mine are affected as these channels will actually lose their status.
And by losing the status, you don't just lose the possibility to monetize on the videos, you also lose the ability to use the "cards" which, after youtube disabled notations, are now the only way to link to other videos during a video.
In addition you will also not be able to use the end screen which also enables you to link to other videos or external pages with more info.
Personally I created 2 channels to separate my Reviews from the more "spammy" Let's Play channel. But this now bites me in the ass.
While I will easily surpass the amount of needed hours on the let's play channel (atm I am at 24612h) I am only at 623 Subscribers at the moment.
On my Review channel however I am not meeting either of the goals. I am only at 1120 hours of the needed 4k, and at 341 Subs.
As there are mostly German Videos on my channel and I am mostly playing niche games I guess my audience is rather small.
But by losing these features it would become even harder to grow the channel.
So…well, this thread serves multiple purposes. One is to let you know. The other one is basically a cry for help on my end: It would be great if you could subscribe to my 2 channels. You don't even need to watch or "like" anything, just subscribing would already help a lot.
This is my Let's Play Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Kordanor1982
This is my Review Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkxgQnnyuRxotg34KmFuUdw
And just to show you the (I think) only 2 short videos I did in english a while ago:
Flawed Dungeon Crawler Mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPG474b7TTI
GalCiv 3 first steps tips (exploiting the systems, was luckily fixed now): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY5i6CurT88
- Joined
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