YouTube Shadow Blocks Views To Justify Demontetizing Producers

Lisa Michaels,                                     Today we are announcing changes to the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). While our goal remains to keep the YPP open to as many channels as possible, we recognize we need more safeguards in place to protect creator revenue across the YouTube ecosystem. LEARN MORE What's Changing Under the new eligibility requirements announced today, your YouTube channel, Lisa Michaels, is no longer eligible for monetization because it doesn’t meet the new threshold of 4,000 hours of watchtime within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. As a result, your channel will lose access to all monetization tools and features associated with the YouTube Partner Program on February 20, 2018 unless you surpass this threshold in the next 30 days. Accordingly, this email serves as 30 days notice that your YouTube Partner Program terms are terminated. One of YouTube’s core values is to provide anyone the opportunity to earn money from a thriving channel. Creators who haven’t yet reached this new threshold can continue to benefit from our Creator Academy, our Help Center, and all the resources on the Creator Site to grow their channels. Once your channel reaches the new threshold, it will be reviewed to make sure it adheres to our policies and guidelines, and if so, monetization will be re-enabled. LEARN MORE The YouTube Team ___________________________________________ Since this email was sent to me via no-reply@youtube.com I was unable to tell them what I thought of their Stalinist tactics. Here is my reply to Google's subsidiary YouTube: Well isn't that convenient! First you lock down the number of views so that I am unable to reach your new 4,000 hours/year and 1000 subscriber metrics. Now you completely ban me from earing advertising income. I will now pay careful attention to other channels to see that all of us are being treated the same, regardless of the nature of our content. I suspect channels that comport with your bias perspective on politics will likely retain their ads while ones like mine will become commercial free. Its OK, I demonetized most if not all of my videos to prevent your company from selling ads on my videos without being required to compensate me for my efforts. Once I realized your view freezing sabotage scheme was purposely denying me ad sense income, I saw that using this digital advertising scheme you quite likely were still earning per click ad revenue from your advertisers, while not compensating producers, like me, who were able to attract their customers' attention and justify charging the advertiser for the impressions.  I have been selling radio and TV ad time for longer than you have likely been alive. At some point the FCC will have to expose your false advertising platform for what it is and perhaps some day a new honest pro-USA pro-1st Amendment management team will either take over your company or develop a competitive video posting alternative to YouTube.   Lisa Michaels

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