alexjmann

I received the below email at 10:10pm yesterday (1/16/13), which was the first time YouTube has communicated with me.

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Hi there,

After a review of your account, we have confirmed that your YouTube account is not in violation of our Terms of Service. As such, we have unsuspended your account. This means your account is once again active and operational.

If you forgot your password, please visit this link to reset it: (link)

Sincerely, The YouTube Team

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Certainly not a stunt. I don't even know how I'd go about suspending my own YouTube account, which I was only able to access for the first time in over a week after receiving this email.

Thank you to everyone who chimed in on this conversation. Apparently, the right person noticed. My suspended YouTube account has been reinstated. If you want to check out the web series, now you can. http://cwatf.com/

Thanks. In terms of marketing the show, I've been pointing everyone to CWATF.com/xxxxxx, so to get back up-and-running, I would just need to upload the video files to a different video platform and re-embed per URL.

I do regret not backing up each video to another platform while I went. The reason was because I wanted to aggregate all traffic to a single platform, in the case that I started to run ads. I guess I could have uploaded them privately on another platform, only to open up publicly should something like this happen.

In my experience producing web video content (especially if you plan on eventually selling ads against it), it's best to aggregate it on one platform. And traffic and visibility-wise, YouTube is the place to do it.

We're in the process of relaunching our platform, which is why we've temporarily blockaded signups. The sentiment engine described in the blog post will be used on our new version.

When we relaunch in a few weeks, there will be a more affordable option than $999 / month.

I've used the free version of AM Charts. They look nice and work well.

http://amcharts.com/