So my youtube video has 2 million+ views and is a year old and they pull this shit...
 

One of my youtube videos has 2 million + views and has been on there for over 10 months. It gets about 20,000 views per day right now and that makes me a good $600+ per month from their ad sharing program (easy easy money) well today all of a sudden the video was flagged and can't be viewed by minors which means my ads wont display anymore. $6,000+ per year down the drain and now I'm also afraid of this happening to the rest of my videos. How can a video go that long and then get flagged out of the blue like that?

what was on the vid?

competition...

or an asshole with nothing better to do

That's the problem people flag shit just because they see you getting a lot of views.

Seen that happen many times.

Why not resubmit the video with identical keywords and such?
WG

Just a random street fight. I mean damn I sell these same clips and stuff to Spike and Tru TV for the world to see and youtube censors it? WTF???


I know you can't have any fights of people getting hurt, jumped or at school etc.... but my videos I upload are very tame for this reason but still they are censoring them.


Seems like if you even say a naughty word there is a chance they will censor your video.

Sadly. Very true.

Mainstream has this shit running wild mean Gene.

:disgust

Well I got lucky on the vid, it used to only get like 1,000 views a day but once it got to the million mark I guess it made everyone click on it a lot more and it just went out of control from there. I could do that but I'm not sure it would take off the same again.

that sucks, what kind of video was it?

When you get that many views don't delete any comments.
The A-hole can come back to rate your video low and flag it.

How do you sign up for ad sharing?

Yeah, a million views attracts another million for sure.
Not easy to just get that spot back.

is there any way you can hit up google and ask them to de-flag it?

there are more haters in here then ever and it is not the first time you have made threads about the easy easy money you make on youtube. Next time insted of making another thread go out and spend that easy easy money and I bet you will have more at the end of the day

hm, since when they have this program?
interesting :)

For a looooooooonggggggggggg time!!!

I just never knew how to get into it when I tried, so I gave up.
This was two years ago.

That definatly makes one say WTF!

As of like a month ago I delete all racist comments, anything else is ok even if they are bad mouthing my company.

Thats what I was wondering. Anybody that sees my videos can tell they are not offensive at all and I am clearly being targeted by certain people. I wonder how many flags you need to get to have this happen in the first place.

That sucks, I see a lot of street fighting videos being tagged, most of Kimbo's are.

I'm surprised that the guys at Nasty don't have kimbo's videos under their accounts

Happened to me several times, not with that many views, but as soon as a video attracts alot of attention, there are always some assholes flagging it...and if it's controversial in any way, it gets pulled. This rule doesn't apply to fluffy funny animals, cute babies and any self proclaimed crusaders for a good cause.

same thing happened to me .. fo r 8 month ol video .. I kept sending them emails about it . but I keep getting back the same autimated responce email .. fuckers

Interesting. I have another video that has been flagged since day one and has about 400,000 views and I just noticed they de-flagged that video. I wonder how this works. I mean its in their best interest to keep my ads up cause thats more money for them.

Maybe once somebody reviews my account they will see that the video is not bad at all and de-flag this one as well. I mean damn an extra $6,000 for google is an extra $6,000.

They deleted my account with more than 3 million views and close to 200 videos

Yea I know the feeling. I just had my account and my all my vids deleted. I had a few vids with 500k plus page views. Was bringing in about $500 a month.

The people making the racist comments are more likely to seek revenge.
They have a "vested" belief in their comments.

I think I hit the nail on the head about why your video got smacked.

It sucks, but when the website gives power to the surfer you will get this kind
of situation.

I hate ebay for the exact thing that should make it great.
The feedback is great info when buying but buyers are also holding the sellers hostage
sometimes by threatening to leave negative feedback if they don't get all the "extras"
that they want. I also bought some crap on ebay and was afraid to leave negative feedback because the seller didn't leave my feedback yet.

Suck it up. You made some change, now move on

call me a noob, but i really hadnt heard of youtubes adsharing before lol

They are starting to censor all kinds of shit on there now... and it's only going to get worse for the Internet as a whole...

It could easily be competition. It's not that hard to get somebody's video axed on youtube. There's botscripts for every function. I haven't seen a flagging bot yet, but I wouldn't doubt it if people got them tucker away too. All it takes is a few flags from a bunch of generated accounts and you can kiss your shit goodbye.

i didnt know just about anyone could do it, it must be something different to the partner scheme

Myspace is even worse.

I had some leftover material from a recent edit so, just for the hell of it, I threw together a quick pseudo artsy clip and uploaded it.

In less than five (5) minutes it was gone :disgust

I'll be damned if I can figure what could possibly be objectionable about this silly little clip.

It's not a rick roll, I promise :)

May I ask how many videos do you have on youtube? How many of them actually generate money? And do you produce your own content, or license it?

This is cool. i had one video get 27k views. I probably could have made a big mac off of it.

its a bitch to get into the partner program
i got denied on one account and approved on a different account

they pulled me from the partner account claiming hte music in the video was not mine when i owned all rights to it

ah well
youtube. THey real ya in and when they are done w/ you they kick ya

you are gonna need way more than 27k views on a video to get in :P

more lika 100k+ on about 10 videos straight

You kinda have to keep mainstream PG...

You're not the first nor the last. They do what they want when they want. Part of the reason I started 420tube.tv.

I have 40+ videos and get a total of about 50K views per day. All my videos except for 9 of them display ads and I make 50% of all the revenue. Nice easy side stream of cash.

They are PG. Over 10 of these same fights are on Tru TV, Fox network and Spike TV almost every night.

arbitrary youtube decisions

were your videos original to youtube? (ie. you were the first one to upload them off of some other media? or were they just a compilation of stuff you found out there on the net?)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gG5fbU1EZOI only 73,909 Views

feel lucky you got the free money you did and move on to the next one...nothing will just sit there and make money forever

what he said...

Anyway, i know TEAMS who are paid to flag videos all day from competition uploaders who send to the same sponsor. Life is a bitch he?

50 deleted videos :)

My buddy has 10K movies on it, looses 1 K a week on flaggs and uploads 1000 new ones. He makes around 1500$ a week with it. Oohh yeah he is from Romania also. Bastards, they are killing the scene :winkwink: