Re:Changes to the YouTube Partner Program
by nemothekid on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @10:55AM
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Google had been telling them “deal with it” for years, until the advertisers banded together and threatened to stop spending on YouTube.
That watershed moment is what caused YouTube to develop the whole demonetization algorithim in the first place
No, the thing is advertisers do not want their brands associated with thing x. YouTube already has automated classifiers for demonetization. This is recognition that these classifiers do not work - from the side of advertisers.
Google could tell them "deal with it" and they'd probably oblige. The manual side was Google Preferred program.