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YouTube Creator Blog
youtube-creators.googleblog.com · Company blog · on HN since 2016
YouTube's official creator blog posts policy changes, monetization rules, and product updates for people who make videos.
What HN saysHN links it as the primary source for YouTube policy changes, such as Content ID manual claiming updates, to avoid press coverage.
27HN people shared it
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Most-shared posts
- 1YouTube is killing its Annotations Editor on May 23 people · 4 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 2YouTube Creators Blog: Restricted Mode: How it works and what we can do better3 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 3Changes to the YouTube Partner Program2 people · 233 points · first shared 2018 · 253 comments on HN
- 4More updates on our actions related to the safety of minors on YouTube2 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 5A final update on our priorities for2 people · first shared 2018
- 6Updates to manual claiming policies2 people · first shared 2019
- 7YouTube Community goes beyond video1 people · 232 points · first shared 2016 · 103 comments on HN
- 8YouTube CEO: An Update on Our 2018 Priorities1 people · 17 points · first shared 2018 · 1 comments on HN
- 9YouTube Rolls Out New Comments System1 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · 2 comments on HN
- 10Updates to YouTube’s Verification Program1 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 11Preventing Harm to the Broader YouTube Community1 people · 3 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 12Making Our Strikes System Clear and Consistent1 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 13YouTube launches Heatmaps for 360° videos1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 14Introducing Expanded YouTube Partner Program Safeguards to Protect Creators1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Coronavirus: An update on creator support and resources1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
magicalist · 2020-01-07
> Go ahead and let Youtube itself stay as a kid-unfriendly, algorithmically moderated wild west with hidden bombs of objectionable content spread around.
That's exactly what the FTC fuss was about, though. It's easy to say that until a parent gives their kid access to it and suddenly YouTube is advertising and recommending stuff to a child, which the law doesn't provide a safe harbor from (not for the content uploaders, either, which is going to cause a lot of problems). The FTC guidance was to identify kids instead by the content they were accessing. Hence Google's complaint: https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2019/12/our-comment-on-coppa.h… (tl;dr skip to the "Treat adults as adults" section)
edit: now I'm confused because your comment below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21975870) indicates you already know your idea here isn't going to work for the FTC?
Klathmon · 2018-04-17
But Google is explaining their actions here, at least on a macro level.
The blog post at [0] as well as an email summarizing the situation was sent to every channel under the new threshold for monetization.
And any time a video is demonetized, they are given links to various help articles like [1] that go over what isn't allowed. You are also sent a link on how to appeal the decision at [2] They don't speak to an individual reason or reasons, and likely never will, because it's too easy to game that. You end up with people following the "letter of the law" but not the spirit, then if you decide to ban them anyway, you get called out for applying rules inconsistently.
There's a reason why our legal system has judges, lawyers, juries, and takes many years in some cases to come to a conclusion. This shit is extremely difficult to manage at any scale.
[0] https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2018/01/additional-changes-to-…
[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278
[2] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7083671#appeal
ikeboy · 2020-02-07
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2605065
Here's guidelines for content ID.
And they update policy often - here's a major update from last year: https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2019/08/updates-to-manual-clai…
waitwhatwhere · 2019-08-16
For those that prefer to avoid TC spam/spin (there are dozens of us!):
https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2019/08/updates-to-manual-clai…
minimaxir · 2019-02-28
Official statement: https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2019/02/more-updates-on-our-ac…
It's not "all".
> A small number of creators will be able to keep comments enabled on these types of videos. These channels will be required to actively moderate their comments, beyond just using our moderation tools, and demonstrate a low risk of predatory behavior. We will work with them directly and our goal is to grow this number over time as our ability to catch violative comments continues to improve.
Wowfunhappy · 2019-02-28
I think this should be the original source, instead of the BBC? https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2019/02/more-updates-on-our-ac…
judge2020 · 2019-02-21
Take this with a grain of salt since it's their own website, but Youtube themselves say they wouldn't be able to let any content on their platform stay up even if it slightly resembled copyrighted content. Think the current Content ID system times 10.
https://www.youtube.com/saveyourinternet/
https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2018/10/a-final-update-on-our-…
c3o · 2019-01-11
YouTube has stated that if this passes, "EU residents are at risk of being cut off from videos that, in just the last month, they viewed more than 90bn times" – i.e. despite all the overblocking and mistakes, still too much slips through ContentID for them to take the risk of direct liability. https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2018/11/i-support-goals-of-art…
ucaetano · 2018-10-24
Spotify with 160 million users in 2017 paid out at least 2.225 billion in royalties to rights holders (It’s probably a little higher). That’s around $13.90 user. YouTube provides the same service (except with video) and CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube has 1 Billion MUSIC users a month.
The article is completely wrong. The blog post referenced (1) says only that "more than one billion fans come to YouTube to be part of music culture and discover new songs and artists". This doesn't translate into YouTube Music having 1B MAUs, nor it translates in any way to Spotify users.
The article is just a piece of low quality rubbish:
This is Google: Second largest corporation on earth, manipulating children to protect one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history. Disgusting
(1) https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2018/10/a-final-update-on-our-…
Buge · 2017-11-14
You can get money directly from viewers on youtube too.
https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2017/09/a-new-way-to-earn-mone…
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7277005
timothya · 2017-09-30
> Users can still put obnoxious annotations up.
No, annotations are deprecated, you can't add them to videos anymore. [0]
[0]: https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2017/03/keep-fans-engaged-with…