Yeah the situation is bad. When you get a second strike you start getting punished in other ways, such as no ability to upload thumbnails or even an option to monetise your videos.

That’s weired up here!

Indirectly Google owns the you tube and they can not provide services to their customers. Sorry to hear that they took almost half of your revenue and also put a limitation on your account.

Frankly speaking I never knew that there is a long tale behind you tube strike channel and they can go up to the high level of craziness. Looking forward to make a deep study in this matter.

Congratulation that your touching up to 1.5k subscribers :)

Thanks for the share

Shantanu.

That’s the problem. At my end I don’t know why, who, or what. I’m in the dark about the whole thing.

I think your suggestion at the end is best. Pay for support, then they can justify providing it.

I also think their apparent arbitrariness of taking down a video or other draconian steps really do need to be justified. Especially since your a business customer. Giving you a message of “it’s been flagged as deceptive” is so vague. What exactly was deceptive about it? Who filed the complaint? What could have been changed that would alter that assessment?

That’s awesome! And I do hope you get a good resolution. They really need to support their content creators.

I have never had a problem with them taking 45% of my commissions in the past, but the complete lack of support is making me question it a little. The problem is that there is no viable alternative. Services such as Vimeo just don’t have the same reach.

I would be OK offering some sort of tiered support system where large YouTubers get priority support and smaller channels need to pay for support (I’m including myself as a small channel). I’d happily pay for a support ticket if it meant a human being actually looked at the issue.

Wow – I did not know they collected that kind of revenue. I upload my videos for free, but I’m not trying to monetize them.

It sounds like you are paying for the service if you’re generating money for them. I suppose the only way to fix it will be to have a competing service that can offer the same value while still giving voice to the people providing the content, is the only way to make it better.

When you have a monopoly, you write the rules. :(

I can see them justifying their behavior as they are letting you host the file for free. The money they make is in providing the adverts and taking a portion of the advert revenue.

So they can do as they like with the videos, although if you’re bringing in revenue for them, why cut off a revenue stream?

Thanks for commenting Bill. I am hoping that common sense will prevail and someone at YouTube will resolve this.

I disagree with you on your first point though. YouTube is not free. They take 45% of all of the earnings YouTubers generate. I would happily pay a monthly fee for hosting on YouTube if I was able to keep all of my earnings.

YouTube is a private property owned by Google and they can choose how to run their business in any way they want.

Yes, you are building your house on a stack of cards. You are subject to the whim of what can at times appear to be a petty dictator, but they are a dictatorship, not a democracy.

Same goes for any service in which you are not paying for. Be it GMail, FaceBook, Instagram, etc – nothing is free, you pay for it one way or another and just like a casino, “The House always wins!”.

Thanks Heather. I’m actually closer to 1,500 subscribers now. I’ve got a good group of loyal subscribers now who share my passion for technology and it’s growing every day.

Hopefully I will get a resolution to this.