I've been posting high quality short cooking videos on YouTube since April, 2016. I invested thousands of dollars into my channel including a Canon Rebel t6, a Samson USB microphone, and leasing and paying monthly for the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite to edit my videos. I also paid thousands of dollars to advertise my videos on Google AdWords and various social media.
I was temporarily demonetized last year when they changed their monetizarion requirements so users must have at least 10,000 lifetime watch minutes in order to be monetized. I had to pay Google AdWords for views to get monetized again. Now I need 1000 subscribers. I only have 163 right now. I could do sub for sub groups and possibly get 1000 fake subscribers who aren't interested in my videos and will probably unsubscribe and make my channel look bad to their AI. Even if I do so, they're probably just going to change the rules again and make it even more difficult to monetize.
As much money as I've put into my channel, I have not received one penny for my hard work. They only pay out when your revenue is $100. I'm a long way from my first $100. During the past month, I've noticed a huge, HUGE increase in organic views and revenue. It all makes sense because knew my channel would be demonetized and instead of them receiving 45% of the ad money on my videos, they will profit the entire 100%. Now think of how many other channels are in the same situation and obviously it's a scam for huge profit.
At this point I think I'm done with that site. Google has been known for shady business practices, and they've been sued for click fraud before. It's very possible I have a lot more subscribers than they're showing me.
I am going to continue making videos. I now have 2 choices. I can either continue uploading onto YouTube and embed my videos into recipe blogs here on steemit, or I can use my YouTube channel to promote steemit and upload all my future videos on DTube. I think I will be doing the latter. I was going to upload longer videos on YouTube and edit down shorter format videos for DTube, but now I think I'm going to do something inbetween and make moderate size videos for DTube since watch time doesn't matter. For now I will be making blog posts of my existing YouTube videos and embed them on steemit rather than uploading all my past videos into the blockchain.
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My YouTube channel.
https://YouTube.com/c/TheXSrianCookingShow