Making money on youtube
 

It's no secret that YT is a goldmine. So rich in fact that I've noticed shady mofos hiring people to flag the competition's videos. :Oh crap:helpme:mad: How do you fight against this? The videos aren't spam, btw.

How does it work? I go to a video and click the link to report it? Then what happens? Surely if it's all good to go they just don't do anything.

You can't, they are doing it with automatic tools and different proxies, you can't catch them.

You strictly stick to the TOS and be in a position to win an appeal. That's the best way. :) Anything else is just a matter of how far the competition is willing to go.

Depends on the niche... What niche are you working on?

That could help to know why your vids are getting flagged.

If you have a video with reviews about the iphone, its impossible get flagged. Now if you have something "Borderline", it's very easy for those guys to act... I have seen this happen over and over in the past, until I switched to a 100% safe niche.

What niche is it?

brand yourself , be entertainer with your content and you will dig the gold , for example , i have there label music channel , and i'm doing fine for not doin nothing just uplouding original content for targeted groupd of YT watchers :)

yes, some bastard competitor flagged mine video too.,

motherfuckers.,

it works on ratio basis.
find videos with lowewst views like 10 or so and flag them, with same ip 2-3 times., video gets removed.

so if you have low views , more chances to gets video removed by this shady tricks...
get/buy more views..

Hiring people? More like bots.

Hit the black hat forums, guys talk openly about making bots to flag accounts of competitors, as well of other ways to shut them down.

I personally hope one day the internet is shut off and all these pricks who didn't prepare for life offline, and make their living by fucking other over, have to suck dicks to pay the bills.

That doesn't matter. If someone wants your videos or account gone, it's fairly easy to do. Just depends on if someone wants you out of the way, or is a hater or not.

True. Longer watch time is probably also factored in.

I follow some people who just started posting fun videos years ago using standard mac software about things they actually enjoy. Cut to 2013 and they raised over 100k from crowd funding for their own studio, they draw huge crowds and have about 400k followers. They're heading on a tour next week hitting Aus, then several countries in EU. They just have fun with it and it's their career now. They speak at youtube events and shit. For smaller channels and start ups, I don't see any reason to not do the same. If people like you, you're all set. If not, then nothing is going to help for long.

that is some serious shit, yt should really protect money making vids from that

adapt or die

That's awesome, good for them!

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