On Thursday, 12 October 2017 09:30:08 UTC+1, CrocodileCucumberPotato wrote:

YouTube need to review their staff before reviewing one more video.

Google/Youtube  >SNIP<

What I don't understand is this.  All this whole Adpocalypse started as a result of a few terrorist videos that some ads showed on.  So, why is youtube targeting EVERYTHING?  If the problem was ads showing up on terrorist videos or videos depicting REAL violent crime, then why not just focus on that.  Why target gaming videos, music videos or any other type of videos?  Why?

Youtube is not focusing on the original issue that caused this entire ruckus, which was ads appearing on terrorist videos.  They are focusing on everything, and that is the problem.  Plus, youtube has not made it clear to us, the creators, what the new rules are.  So, we are wandering around in the dark bumping into stop signs we can't even see.  Everyone here is screaming about this, but no one here really knows diddly squat about anything concerning this issue.  And since youtube will not chime in and shine some light on the subject (because they want us to remain in the dark), we are just blind people leading other blind people and we are falling into pits here.  

Bottom line.  Nothing makes sense because we don't have a clear understanding of what the rules are.  Is the system messing up?  Or is the system just doing what it has been told to do and we think it is messing up?  We have no way of knowing because we don't know what it has been told to do.  

Maybe youtube has decided to try to create a "Zero Offense Zone" for advertisers so that no ad will appear along side any video that has the remotest possibility of offending anyone.   If this is the case, then prepare to start making videos about Japanese Opera, because that is about the only thing that won't offend at least someone.  Although personally, I pretty much hate opera, so even that might offend someone.

At the end of the day, youtube has to cater to two three sets of customers.  First, the source of the money; Advertisers.  Second, The Creators.  Third the Viewers.  Right now, youtube is just catering to the advertisers.  But if they keep crushing their creators, they will find out very quickly that they need the creators, just as much as they need the advertisers.  Because without the creators content, they have nothing to run ads on.  Then they need the viewers, because without the viewer nobody makes any money.  If youtube continues to offend creators they will create a hole in the online video streaming market and we all know, someone will step in to fill it.  If all the good creators leave youtube, then they will be left with content no one wants to watch and the will become the next PBS.  

Now I know that some of you might think that youtube cannot be toppled from the top of the online stream video mountain.  But this is not true.  I have been on this earth for quite a while and I have seen this before.  I remember when people thought the same way about Microsoft, Internet Explorer and Yahoo.  The experts all said they could never be toppled from the top spot.  Well, look at where they are today.  And what about Walmart that people said could never be challanged?  Amazon.com is hurting them big time.  They are now losing money in many markets and have had to shut down over 500 stores in the last few years. Last year dedicated tens of billions of dollars to improve their online store front to try to regain the revenue they have lost to Amazon.com.  I think it is too little too late for Walmart.  Walmart may never go away, but they are no longer the unbeatable giant they once were.

Right now Facebook is investing massive amounts of energy to try to steal the online streaming video market from youtube, and has recently introduced ways for video creators to monetize their videos and make money from them on facebook.  Now is not the time for youtube to forget that the need the creators, just as much as they need to advertiser.  If they keep offending their creators, the creators will leave and go somewhere else.  You can only bully people if you are the only store on the block.  Youtube is not the only store on the block anymore.