With the latest standards, I am without a doubt positive that you have heard a lot of rants from small youtubers. Youtube has added even MORE terms to get a Youtube account monetized. An account must have 4,000 hours and 1000 subscribers in the least to get REVIEWED to be monetized. It is not said whether an account will for sure get monetized at that point. It will then be up for REVIEW... I am sure those who understand that smaller youtubers try to think of unique ideas and fun concepts for videos in a crowd of heavily saturated youtubers, all the while keeping a viewer's attention. That is where the watch time comes in.
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It is indeed difficult as a small youtuber to digest these new standards when one has tried to work at hitting that 10,000 views mark. Can it be difficult? Absolutely! Not every video goes viral or even semi-viral. And some videos aren't always relevant or "evergreen." Also, in most creator's opinions, Youtube favors its bigger content creators. Is this shocking? No, of course not. Many creators have witnessed huge creators get boosted time and time again in the trending page while other creators are left out. Now, what personally baffles me is when Youtube DOES NOTHING about big creators who FLAT OUT VIOLATE THEIR TERMS AND CONDITIONS! Or rather take too long to respond. But if a small youtuber even thinks about violating youtube, their content is taken down or demonetized (Of course that isn't 100% literal, I was being dramatic, but you get my point). Some of you may have heard that many youtubers have had videos demonetized even though the video did not violate their TOS. A creator would have to further request a review so youtube could manually review it to get their video monetized again. Now, there are big youtubers fly under the radar.
Most recently there was a radio show who did a video interview with a rapper (I will refrain from mentioning them because it isn't worth the views), and that video was #9 on the trending page. Of course, had an advertisement attached to it which indicates is monetized. This said radio interviewed this rapper who spoke about doing drugs with his singer girlfriend on a yacht, which I think violates the Youtube TOS. Of course things like this happens all too often on Youtube, some of you may remember some big youtubers smoking drugs in their videos. It may be legal in some states, but it definitely is not advertiser friendly. Youtube needs to have age restrictions on those videos.
I mean, if they are policing so heavily on small creators, shouldn't they at least do the same to the smaller creators?! And I am sure Steemians can see that small creators on Youtube are fed up. Steemians can see more and more Youtubers making their transition to not only Steemit, but other social media outlets as well. I would like to hear from the Steemit community, were you a Youtube creator that transitioned to Steemit? What social media outlets have you tried to promote and share your content? Is Youtube hurting its own creators or setting them up for success through these new goals? I want to hear your thoughts!