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Damn.
Just days away from earning my first payout from YouTube after over 2 years of making BevNerd Video Podcast for my YouTube channel. They cited invalid click issues. I misclicked an ad on one of my videos Thursday. REALLY? I appealed the deactivation. "...It may take up to 2 to 3 weeks for response..." Appeal denied 6 hours later at 3 am. I was ULTRA butt hurt for a day or two. Thinking about it just makes me so sad. Feeling like I've wasted my time. My dreams of that YouTube money and fame has been dashed. Well I could still find YT fame, but no money from it. Here are my thoughts. 1. I've been doing BevNerd for over 2 years for pretty much free, I love to do it and getting paid for would just a fantastic bonus. 2. I use Blip.tv for my master video postings, they then get aggregated to YouTube and other sites. They do offer payouts and have paid me in the past. They have a much smaller market, payout is much smaller, but I think they do a great job and don't look for the slightest mistake to take your money and put it back in their virtual wallet. 3. I would NEVER punish anyone that watches my show via YouTube (ie: I would never stop posting my videos to YouTube) I personally won't link people to my YouTube channel and I will only ask people to subscribe via Blip and iTunes. 4. Affiliate programs! Yes, they are tedious, I feel like I'm begging people, but they work. I will now include my Amazon link on all my blog posts and videos. So if anything, there's still a chance to get extra money to eventually buy a new computer to work on, buy new equipment and fund more BevNerd.com video projects in the works. 5. Sponsorships! Not for my webshow, but to have BevNerd staff be brand ambassadors at events like comic conventions. We've had a taste of success at MomoCon with sponsors and it's freaking fun! 6. I just had a staff meeting, aka guys drinking beer outside in Alabama. We've got some really awesome stuff planned and a total overhaul on BevNerd.com. Plans to create a more personable roundtable discussion food show, and just ways we can get closer and closer to not working for The Man and work for ourselves. 7. My passion is truly there for me, my craft beer reviewer and my idea guy (Job title TBD). I strongly believe that if you have enough passion for anything, you can find a way for someone to pay you for it. Anyway, that's my mini rant, motivational speech and thought provoking insight (?). Check out my site, www.BevNerd.com and look for the Amazon button. If you ever choose to click it and buy something. I get pennies. If you are currently subscribed via YouTube or not subscribed at all. I now would prefer folks to subscribe via Blip! Just click it and it'll take you to my neat channel page.  |
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iwarboY
- 04-22-2012, 01:42 AM
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i'd speak to a lawyer asap and get their thoughts.. free consultation wouldn't hurt, 2 years is a big deal. sounds like funny business to me. just contact a lawyer.
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Wolfkin
- 04-22-2012, 09:29 AM
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help me out here what does it mean when you misclicked an ad? like if you click one of your own ads that's fraud?
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PepsiDriver
- 04-22-2012, 09:56 AM
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@Wolfkin, Yep! I went to close the ad on the video, and since the X on the ad is particle sized, I clicked the ad by mistake. I tried to explain my case. Maybe they found that my channel was too much of a "risk" to advertisers.
Even having a community for your show can be a risk because your fans can click ads just to help you. I have read some more forums and it seems like this isn't a rare occurrence with smaller YouTube channels right before they get their first payout. Maybe they have kept a record of clicks that could have happened in this 1 1/2 years or maybe they don't like me watching my own videos again. |
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raarar
- 04-22-2012, 12:15 PM
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I help my friend run a small nerd site and he signed up for AdSense right as we started building traffic above 100 hits a day. I don't remember what we did but we got traffic up above 200 hits a day for a few weeks and then bam, same thing.
Click violations. |
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Thongsy
- 04-22-2012, 07:03 PM
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They'll really do anything to keep the money. Another forum I visit, on a discussion of the ads, the owner of the site mention that is how he earns revenue to keep the site going and to feel free to click it once in a while. This was the only time he mention that and it was in a discussion of ads on the site since some were causing problems and had to be blocked. But since he said it this one time, they decided he was actively promoting false clickthrough so they disable his account too.
It also seems kind of stupid they would ban you for clicking an ad unless you did it a lot. What if you were interested in the ad, you're not allowed to click it lest you risk a deactivation. |
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dragoon99
- 04-22-2012, 09:27 PM
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Wow, just for doing it once by accident? I'm so sorry man, you deserve to get paid for your channel. I wonder how the big boys make it to their level without getting deactivated. Speaking for instance the popular comedy/parody channels that have huge followings.
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DaBoltz
- 04-23-2012, 01:08 AM
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WTF?!!! You click an ad ONCE and you get a ban-hammer?! That is seriously F----d up. Two years hard work and a common mistake gives them an excuse to throw all that out?! WOW...
TBH, I don't know how the whole adsense thing works. That is, what's ok and not. But what you describe sounds so unfair and idiotic...How the hell does woodysgamertag shill all sorts of t-shirts, apps, and crap so blatantly and not get a similar ban? I don't know you that well but, man, what happened to you just pisses me off something fierce as a empathetic human being. So unjust! Maybe you can post on reddit or something to shame YT? Couldn't hurt perhaps? |
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Holesale
- 04-23-2012, 07:25 AM
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ive watched another company (GameBreaker) come up from a small production that did mostly podcasts into something huge and then get shafted by YT on stupid things.
Then you look at all the real talented people with awesome ideas who post stuff on yotube and bring them views get shafted while most Idiots who aren't even funny and all they do is  ing talk about irrelevant news beg for subs then some how get tv commercial deals and other obsurd craplike that.. those people are like the Jersey Shore of the internet.-endrage- |
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PepsiDriver
- 04-23-2012, 05:56 PM
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@DaBoltz, While I would LOVE to shame YT, that's just not my style and I'm too subtle for that. I just wonder how people that have clearly pirated and copy written shows have adsense. I would feel way more satisfaction bringing a lot of growth and views to my partners at blip.tv or even iTunes. I would love to eventually get so many views elsewhere and even on YT that they would want to put ads on the videos I produce. LOL.
@Holesale, I agree with everything you say. It's just the way it is, they reward flash in the pan, jackass types or people who beg for subs, or who have that meteoric rise and quickly fall. It may be many things, maybe a fan always clicks ads? I suspect that since it was so close to the payout date they were looking for any reason to banhammer me. I appreciate the support from the fantastic CAG community. Seen a few more people subscribe via blip at http://blip.tv/bevnerd and my Amazon ad clicks! |
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grrouchie
- 04-23-2012, 06:41 PM
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BevNerd - I know quite a few people who have recently been deactivated and all are given the same shitty excuse with no information or validation to back it up.
I'm fairly certain that by the time my blog gets close to a payout I'll have the exact same email waiting for me saying that they hate my guts and would kick my newborn in the vagina if given the chance just to show how much they dislike me. Only time will tell, but I think something weird is up myself |
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Yamato
- 04-24-2012, 05:50 PM
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How much money are we talking? No one is gonna ask? Is it worth seeking help to fight this?
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PepsiDriver
- 04-24-2012, 09:10 PM
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@grrouchie: I pray that you don't get that email my friend. I think that much smaller blog sites and YouTube channels don't have that HUGE viral following and don't make boatloads of cash for Google so they don't really care about us. Yeah, we activate your channel for monetization. Oh you didn't make a viral video after 2 years? Nevermind.
@Yamato, I have no problems answering your question. It will make this even more retarded. $103.xx is what they canceled an account over. It took me since June last year, since I got monetized on YouTube. ONE HUNDRED AND THREE ing DOLLARS.I know Google sure as shit won't miss that. However, to just a guy that wants to publish soda reviews on the internet, that's a huge step towards new equipment, the costs that I pay for out of pocket, expansion that I want to do, etc. etc. I highly doubt that that's anywhere near worth the time to fight. Unless if there's a class action lawsuit, but it's in the AdSense TOS about the right to shut down anyone with suspicious activity or pose a risk to their advertisers. Also, without having to explain themselves to publishers for cutting them off. |
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Yamato
- 04-25-2012, 07:04 PM
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Ridiculous. As someone who really enjoys your videos, I say that you deserve every cent. If that happened to me, I would be contacting them every day demanding my money. I would post my story to multiple sites, and I would leave a review at the BBB.
It may not seem like a lot of money to some, but that isn't even the point. I'm sure they've done this to many people, and it really is the principle of the matter. |
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