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Pretty good video that explains why Youtube views often freeze at 301, along with some other nifty info about how Youtube works on a global scale.

This sticky is designed to answer the majority of common questions people have about Youtube earnings through AdSense.

Q: Am I paid if a viewer skips an ad?

A: No. True-View was specifically designed to benefit advertisers, not Youtube Partners. It allows Advertisers to not waste money on ads a viewer is not interested in watching.

More information: http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2375464

Q: What is click bombing?

A: Clickbombing, also known as invalid click activity, is when users spam click on your ads in an attempt to inflate your earnings. They do this because AdSense is designed to lock down your account if it suspects fraudulent click activity. Youtube has many trolls who are aware of this and if they want to hurt you, they will attempt to click bomb you. It's very important that all Partners monitor their AdSense earnings daily and report any suspicious earnings. If you are click bombed, read the Youtube Partner Click Bombing Survival Guide to find the steps to protect your account and halt the click bombing.

An often asked question is if Youtube partners can claim the usernames of banned or inactive accounts, because they have heard of Partners doing it before. However Youtube Partner support employees have always said it's not possible.

Then today I stumbled upon this image of the settings for a full CMS account. Behold.

http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2481196



I guess Networks can reclaim usernames just by accessing that form. Everyone else is SOL.

This topic has been moved to Social Media Promotions.

http://www.abetterpartnerforum.com/index.php?topic=253.0

Feel free to share your channel in this thread, so long as you have tech-focused content on it, like product reviews, unboxings, hacks, etc!

Feel free to share your channel in this thread, so long as you have gaming related content on it!

Feel free to share your channel in this thread, so long as you have cooking tutorials on it!

Feel free to share your channel in this thread, so long as you have something related to beauty and fashion on it!

Invalid click activity, also known as "Click bombing", is a major concern for Youtube Partners. Many Partners have lost their Partnerships because they had competitors or trolls spam clicks on ads in order to cause their AdSense to be disabled.

This has personally happened to me a few times and each time I was able to make the correct steps to maintain my AdSense account.

I've shared information about how to survive a click bombing on my blog, Youtube Video Marketing Strategies.  I've stickied this thread so the information can be quickly found by those who need this information.

If you are having difficulty registering a new account, the answer to the first field is yes.

You must also scroll to the very bottom of the sign up page and choose "Yes" from the drop down menu which asks you if you are human.

These questions were made part of the sign up process in order to put a halt to the bots who were signing up to the forum as soon as we made it live again. After adding these questions we have no more bot trouble 

This thread is designed to educate folks on how to make money on Youtube, which is a common question on the official Youtube Partner forums.

Although the Partnership program has been out for several years now there are still many people who are unaware that many small businesses exist who operate exclusively on Youtube. Streaming video has become a huge industry and this thread will talk about some of the ways people earn a living using it.

#1 Youtube monetized video views

Pretty much every Youtube channel can be connected to a Google AdSense account to allow ads to play on the video watch pages or during a video as a pre-roll, mid-roll or end-roll. Google pays the owner of the Youtube channel whenever the earnings reach $100 dollars. Although ad amounts fluctuate based on what advertisers are willing to pay for certain keywords, generally speaking you can expect to earn $1 for every 1,000 monetized video views your channel receives.

#2 Affiliate programs and Stores

Many Youtubers create video blogs which review products they find on other websites such as Amazon. The channel owner then adds a link to the product in the description box of the video with their affiliate program ID number (such as Amazon Affiliates) so that if someone clicks on the URL and buys the product the Youtuber receives a commission on the sale.

Some Youtubers also sell their own products using the Youtube Store app, which allows products from Amazon, Cafepress, TopSpin and Apple iTunes store to be sold directly from a Youtube video watch page or the Youtube channel page.

#3 Selling Ad Space on Youtube channels

Some big name Youtubers will place 30-60 second advertisements for products in their latest video. Depending on how many views your channel receives this can be a great way to make money. Additionally some Youtubers will change their background to help advertise a product and include URL links on their channel watch page that lead to a promoted website.

#4 Youtube video rentals

Youtube Partners are able to make feature films they upload available for rent on Youtube. The service is not as popular as others such as Netflix but there are still many Youtubers who make decent money renting out special feature film videos to their fanbases.


If you know of any additional methods to make money with Youtube feel free to share it by posting below. This post will be updated periodically.

We here at www.abetterpartnerforum.com are in the process of starting a link exchange program for members of this forum.

This year Google has made major changes to Youtube, some of which many of us are unhappy about as they have made it harder to get our video content seen. It has become even more important for Youtubers to crosspromote to tap into each other's audiences and this link exchange program is designed to put Youtubers in contact with each other.

The specific details of the program are still being devised and we are open to suggestions on how best to accommodate everyone. At the moment we are planning to handle the exchanges by category; for example, Gaming Partners should cross-promote with Partners who make content related to gaming. Cross-promotion on Youtube works best when the kind of content being plugged is very similar.

One of the perks of being a member of this program is to have your channel advertised on this forum in a rotating banner exchange.

Here are a few key things we are suggesting be required for members who join the program:

• Members will be required to place back-links to websites owned by other members of the link exchange program. This helps everyone's videos rank higher in search engine results.
• Members will need to include a link to www.abetterpartnerforum.com  on their Youtube channel pages and create at least one video informing their subscribers about the forum, with a link to the forum at the start of the video's description. This will help increase the visibility of the forum, which increases the amount of traffic everyone in the program will receive
• Members will need to plug videos from other members on their Facebook Page and Twitter accounts.
• Members will need to create a playlist on their channel which has videos from other members in the Link exchange program.
  

All members interested in being part of this link exchange program should make a new thread in this forum with the following information:

• URL links to the Youtube channels you own
• What kind of content you create on your channels.
• Your geographical location (so that you might find other Youtubers local to you who can make videos with you)

ADDITIONALLY I have put this video together on one of my channels and published it under a Creative Commons license. You are free to place this video on your own channels to count as your promotional video, so long as you include a link to at the very start of your description to http://www.abetterpartnerforum.com!

A Better Youtube Partner Forum Ad#1

For instructions on how to locate this Creative Commons video and add it to your channel please read this link http://www.youtube.com/t/creative_commons/

Simply make your own short intro video and then mix my video after your intro video and you will be golden :)


If you have any questions or suggestions about this program please feel free to reply to this post!

http://www.tubepartnerz.com/

My company just launched this site today that allows people to search for Partner channels by the type of content on the channels, and lists them in subcategories. My hope is that it will make it easier for small Partners to get seen.

Let me know what you guys think! We plan to add some new features in the future if the site becomes popular.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=7e2be8a585cfd844&hl=en

(reposting from there)

So I'm being click bombed right now. Yes, it's a click bomb; there are way more clicks than actual views to my videos.

I've sent several reports in to AdSense. At one point AdSense caught it and drastically reduced the amount of revenue. Disabling ads on all three of my Partner channels (jfreedan, TheRPGFanatic and NinjaGKaiser) isn't making any difference whatsoever, which seems to mean that there really is no way for a Partner to protect their channel against these attacks. I'm pretty sure the attack started a few hours ago, as I had just checked my AdSense about 3 hours ago and this wasn't occurring.

I sent an email to Youtube Partner support to inform them, only to receive a form letter reply suggesting me to read Youtube's policies. No, I'm not complaining about my account being disabled. As of right now my AdSense isn't disabled. I've also submitted three emails to AdSense about the invalid click activity and that it is still happening even though I disabled ads on my accounts.

I don't know what is going on with Youtube. Lately there are a lot of issues happening with my accounts that are not being addressed and without going into much detail, I'm deeply disappointed with Youtube as a company. I love the product, but the support is lacking. I know the staff is small and all, but something needs to be done.

Partner Support, I hope someone from your end reads this. Partners who have been click bombed and been told it was your fault for not monitoring your account, no, that isn't true at all.

Again, I disabled my ads and the click bomb is still happening.

UPDATE: I was able to keep my Youtube Partnership with Google but the experience was quite stressful.

I've shared information about how to survive a click bombing on my blog, Youtube Video Marketing Strategies.  Trying to share what I learned with others!

http://youtubecreator.blogspot.com/2011/09/mark-your-calendar-for-international.html

"Partners - please join us for the first Europe & US combined virtual meetup!

This will be a live event on the YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/YouTube).  Many of you have requested information about the Creator Hub and our new Creator Playbook - we want to answer your questions and hear all of your feedback..

Our own Bing Chen will be leading a discussion on the Creator Hub and Ryan Nugent from YouTube’s Audience Development team will be talking about the Creator Playbook. If you have questions about either, now's your opportunity to post them (and vote on others) at https://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=b2ce6. This is a unique opportunity to discover everything about the Hub and the Playbook. Please submit your questions by Monday, September 12th, and then make sure to tune in to see what Bing and Ryan have to say during the live event..

Date: Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Time: 8.30 AM PST (San Francisco) / 12.30 PM EST (NewYork) / 16.30 GMT (London)  / 17.30 GMT + 1 (Madrid)
Web address: Live streaming at www.youtube.com/YouTube

During the stream, you’ll be able to ask follow-up questions via Twitter using the hashtag #YTPartner. We’ll monitor these tweets and address as many questions as we can during the live stream. Please note that due to its international nature, this livestreaming event will be held in English.

We look forward to seeing you on the 14th!

Maruchi Garcia, YouTube Strategic Partner Manager, recently watched "Glumpers - Meteorite."

So I was digging around Youtube's help pages and came across this tool that lets you see what kind of videos certain demographics are watching.

http://video-analytics.google.com/yap/iba

I think this is pretty useful for those who want to target their video content toward certain audiences.

I've been thinking for awhile that if several Partners banded together to pool our subscribers toward videos, we could make videos go "viral". This would result in us smaller Partners getting larger over time, because more people are seeing our videos.

Here is the idea:

Every week, we put a video into our featured video slot on our channel page and put it on autoplay. This results in those who come to our channel seeing that video. From my own history I know that any video I put on my channel front page will get around 2k views per week just by doing that. I'm sure other partners have similar experiences.

The idea is to "pool" those views from our channel pages toward one video, thereby causing more people to see that video and possibly subscribe to that Partner.

I would like to test this idea out with a video I put on one of my alt accounts to promote my new web series, Deathfist Ninja GKaiser
Deathfist Ninja GKaiser Featurette

Let's see how many views it gets in a week? Then we can pick another Partner who participated in this effort and rotate his / her video into the featured video spot?

What do you guys think?

I was doing a search for Youtube creator groups and this article popped up

http://willvideoforfood.com/2011/04/01/ray-william-johnson-is-youtubes-first-millionaire-creator/comment-page-1/

I know a lot of people hate the guy, but damn. You may not like what he does, but what he does, works.