Changes to the YouTube Partner Program

Re:Changes to the YouTube Partner Program by Nition on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:44PM (#16171094)

YouTube has never shown ads on non-monetised videos. If I choose the no monetisation option on a video, it has no ads. So if YouTube is saying these small channels can no longer monetise their videos, it would be a whole extra policy change to say that non-monetised videos will now show ads.

Any YouTube video that currently shows an ad, the uploader has chosen to do so in order to make money from it.

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Re:Changes to the YouTube Partner Program by d1zzy on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @05:37PM (#16172723)

That is slightly inaccurate: ads are also shown to videos of non-monetized accounts if a copyright claim is made by someone for content on that video and the claimer decides to put ads in it for allowing the content.

I have no monetization enabled for my account and still get text ads because of that.

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Re:Changes to the YouTube Partner Program by Nition on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @06:29PM (#16173078)

Good point. Although I've disputed a (inaccurate) copyright claim before and had it removed. Plus technically you're not meant to upload anything that you don't have the copyright for.

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