Hello!
About half a year ago I started working with Program3 using one specific promotional strategy (involving rewatermarking their promo videos). I immediately got contacted by their manager Brandon, who said, that it was important to follow certain guidelines in order to use my strategy. Otherwise, he approved of my approach.
Ever since I strictly followed their rules. I was doing pretty well, especially in the end of the year. However, in the beginning of January I received e-mail, that my Program3 account was terminated. I contacted their support and got reply from manager Steve saying, that I breached ToS by rewatermarking their videos. I explained the situation, copied text from one of the letters from manager Brandon and promised to follow their rules and use other strategies, once they reopen my account. It seemed to me, that it was pure misunderstanding and I did not feel like losing rather big sum of money on my account. I also reread ToS multiple times and could not find anything concerning the situation. After Steve promised to look into this in a couple of days I got no reply. I tried contacting them on several occasions in the course of two weeks, but now it was clear, that both my message and the problem were ignored.
The industry is not exactly blooming and it is rather difficult for webmasters to earn anything. It turns out, that earning is only half of the deal - one might not always get paid for his efforts. The company was very well aware of rewartermarked videos being out there since day 1. My account was only terminated after my earnings exceeded certain limit. It's kinda sad and demotivating as long as these double standards exist.
About half a year ago I started working with Program3 using one specific promotional strategy (involving rewatermarking their promo videos). I immediately got contacted by their manager Brandon, who said, that it was important to follow certain guidelines in order to use my strategy. Otherwise, he approved of my approach.
Ever since I strictly followed their rules. I was doing pretty well, especially in the end of the year. However, in the beginning of January I received e-mail, that my Program3 account was terminated. I contacted their support and got reply from manager Steve saying, that I breached ToS by rewatermarking their videos. I explained the situation, copied text from one of the letters from manager Brandon and promised to follow their rules and use other strategies, once they reopen my account. It seemed to me, that it was pure misunderstanding and I did not feel like losing rather big sum of money on my account. I also reread ToS multiple times and could not find anything concerning the situation. After Steve promised to look into this in a couple of days I got no reply. I tried contacting them on several occasions in the course of two weeks, but now it was clear, that both my message and the problem were ignored.
The industry is not exactly blooming and it is rather difficult for webmasters to earn anything. It turns out, that earning is only half of the deal - one might not always get paid for his efforts. The company was very well aware of rewartermarked videos being out there since day 1. My account was only terminated after my earnings exceeded certain limit. It's kinda sad and demotivating as long as these double standards exist.
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