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New restrictions on sponsorship deals have YouTubers concerned about the future viability of their YouTube revenue models.
YouTube is concerned about the amount of money flying around between sponsors and content creators, and they want a piece of the pie. They have a new restriction that says video makers can’t include sponsor “graphical title cards” unless the sponsor has paid Google for the advertising.
“We allow text-only title cards where there is paid product placement for the purpose of paid product disclosure only,” reads YouTube’s updated explanation. “Graphical title cards, including the use of sponsor logos and product branding, are prohibited unless there is a full Google media buyout on the partner content by the sponsor.”
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The only place I watch Geekbeat in on the Roku’s Revision3 channel.
Have never watched it on YouTube.
So what about all those unboxing videos?
Kindve hard to hide logos!
So Geekbeat is freaking out about something evil which Google is doing? Serves you right for being such Google Plus fanboys.
Google is evil.
I use iTunes via an Apple TV to get my video pod cast content and then mostly use Netflix for the remainder of my content consumption.
I wonder how this affects affiliate product logos. One could argue either direction on those items since they are not directly paid ads but they are indirectly paid ads.
Put Cali in a Bikini and no one notices the logo’s!
YouTube has ZERO support.. They dictate to their customers and I hope that Facebook DOES loosen up their algorithm and kick their tail.
I subscribed to Geekbeat via iTunes and like it that way.
Most of the blogs/sites I follow I subscribed to by RSS.
I would like to see more and more people use the free (liberal) and open web instead of more or less closed platforms. Maybe your geeky community can be the leaders in this direction.
This is very interesting especially given that G+ HOAs are automatically saved to YouTube and HOA participants may not necessarily see themselves as “YouTubers” and pay attention to this change although it would clearly impact the HOA format.
Ok, so if I monetize with ads I can’t monetize with product placement. This is not a big deal.
I dropped out of YouTube when they demanded Real Names for leaving comments. Don’t like the YouTube method of subscribing because it’s too easy to miss videos. Was using YouTube RSS feeds for a while – until they broke it. I follow a bunch of RSS feeds for audio and video content. Experimented with one podcasters who uses Bittorrent sync as one method to distribute his stuff.