A very popular YouTube channel, The Great War (704K Subscribers) is losing a lot of their ad revenue due to the way YouTube works. Currently, many videos cannot be monetized right away, and have to wait a few hours, days, sometimes over a week before monetization kicks in. The initial few hours are most critical for new videos on YouTube and no monetization is possible in that period of time while Google sits on it deciding if they will allow monetization on the video. These blackout periods are in place for established and trusted YouTubers, not just new users.
Fortunately for them, a lot of their content is evergreen and although they lose a lot of money in the initial period it isn't monetized they get views well after the initial release phase. Most YouTubers are not so lucky and are forced to seek funding through third-party services like Patreon. This creates a new for YouTubers to beg and promote their Patreon or other third party funding service to keep on the air, taking away from the content they want to produce.
I won't even get into the discussion of the three strikes and claiming other people's content as your own without challenge.
Services like DTube and DSound can flip all these services on their head while offering a better experience to publishers and viewers.
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STOPGreat post, I'm in a similar situation and it is difficult to earn revenue with YouTube with the delay in monetization. So I've been on the look out for new opportunities to monetize my content so thank you for sharing 'dtube' will definitely check this out.
Unless your content is evergreen (people will view it long past when you release it) it is really hard on YouTube, especially with all the flagging issues there.