YouTube will run ads on smaller creators' videos without paying them
Don not be surprised if you start seeing ads on videos made by smaller YouTube creators. The video-sharing website has updated its Terms of Service, and it includes a new section that gives it the right to monetize videos from channels not big enough to be part of its Partner Program. That does not mean new creators can start earning from their videos right away, though â YouTube said in a forum post explaining the changes to its ToS that non-YPP members will not be getting a cut from those ads.
To become eligible for the YouTube Partner Program, a creator has to be living in a country where it is active, has to have 4,000 public watch hours in the last 12 months and has to have over 1,000 subscribers. YouTube only used to run ads on videos from channels that do not meet those criteria under special circumstances, such as if the channel was previously a YPP member. Going forward, though, the website can monetize any video, so long as it meets its ad-friendly guidelines.
That means it will not run ads on any video that contains inappropriate language, violence, inflammatory and sexual content, drug-related and firearm-related content, as well as anything that incites hatred against individuals or groups of people based on their religion, sexuality and gender identity, among others.
In addition to this change to its Right to Monetize section, YouTube has also added âfacesâ to the kinds of information people are not allowed to collect from its service. It explained that the website never allowed the collection of personally identifiable information, but it altered its language in the ToS âto be extremely explicit about what kind of data usersâ cannot collect. YouTube is rolling out these changes in the US first, but they will be effective worldwide by the end 2021.
PayPal is launching the âGenerosity Network,â a new GoFundMe-esqueservice that enables individuals to launch fundraising campaigns. The company says that it is an âaccessible, easy and secure wayâ for people to raise money for issues that matter, especially in the wake of COVID-19. Each fundraising drive will last for up to 30 days, and there is a maximum limit of $20,000 imposed onto each project. PayPal is enabling users to donate their credit card rewards (through participating banks), converted to a dollar figure, as well as reminding everyone that they can add a $1 donation every time they shop online.
In the US, especially, there is a disconnect between the cost of basic necessities and the ability of people to pay for them. Services likeGoFundMeare designed to enable people to request funds to support basic medical treatment not covered by insurance or hardship funds when things go wrong. Currently, the Generosity Network is raising funds for funeral expenses, disaster relief for Providencia and a number of people needing treatment for rare cancers.
With the Generosity Network, the funds are deposited directly into the organizerâs PayPal account, and theyâre trusted to then distribute them onward. PayPal VP Oktay Dogramaci says that the company has seen an âoutpouring of generosity from the PayPal community [...] during this unprecedented year.â COVID-19 has caused millions of people to lose their jobs and, by extension, their health insurance.
The Generosity Network is a separate enterprise to the PayPal Giving fund, which enables you to donate to major charities without transaction fees or deductions.
Conducting an interview in the midst of a pandemic seemed more difficult than expected.
Everyone started working from home and the internet connection had to suffer from time to time.
This week I had the privilege of having a conversation with Frederik Mees, also known as Teeti.
Frederik is a starting YouTuber and obsessed with automation and programming.
He is also concerned with social issues, as can also be seen on his Instagram @ teeti.fm.
A few months ago, he published a parody song on multiple platforms, including YouTube, Spotify, Amazon and Apple music. The song 'stay at home' is a parody of Lewis Capaldi's 'Before you go'. In this song he urges people to stay home safely when possible in order to prevent the spread of the corona virus.
Besides his passion for parody making, he is also an obsessed programmer. "Automation. My favorite occupation." is his motto. One of his most notable projects is an automated tinder bot. Changing your location on Tinder is a paid feature reserved for TinderPlus. "Not anymore." he says. With his tinder bot, he knows how to outsmart tinder and you can automatically swipe profiles from all kinds of different locations in the world to the right and send automated personalized messages.
