There are many YouTubers out there who don’t know anything about YouTube’s community guidelines. Some people know where to find the guidelines page, but haven’t realized those policies fully yet. Well, this post from our blog details everything you need to know about YouTube’s community guidelines.
Recently YouTube calls its guidelines as ‘policies and safety’. For your information, YouTube’s main policy is NOT to piss off many users/viewers. It may sound weird, but it really is the truth. Let us give an example of it. The same content may be considered a ‘policy violating’ thing on a YouTube video and may just go fine on another YouTube video. I guess, YouTube depends on a report based artificial intelligent system to detect policy violations. That’s why when a huge number of reports are submitted against a particular video, it is automatically taken down.
Since the ‘removal’ process is automatic, the video uploader is given a choice to appeal the removal of a particular video. We hope that every appeal is manually reviewed to reach a resolution/verdict. For the same reason stated above, videos that violate YouTube’s community guidelines may actually sustain for a prolonged time. So we guess now you know what we mean by NOT ‘pissing up’ the majority of viewers.
YouTube’s community guidelines regarding nudity and sexual content
The thing is that YouTube considers itself as a family platform for entertainment. That’s why something that can not be watched with family members together is considered to violate community guidelines. This is the reason sexuality and nudity are not allowed on YouTube. If you must upload such videos, you need to age-restrict them yourself. Because if these nude/sexually explicit videos are later found by common people and reported, they may not only be removed, but the channel may receive community strikes also.
You may have watched many sexually provocative scenes on YouTube, specially on Bollywood and Hollywood songs. But nothing is happening to them because the producers of these songs/scenes have special connection with YouTube’s top officials, even with the policy makers of Google/YouTube. So you can easily guess, as a common YouTuber you don’t compare to them at all.
That’s why, if you upload anything inappropriate on YouTube right this moment, it may be removed the very next moment. From this point of view, YouTube is surely not impartial. It certainly is partial to the ‘powerful’ parties and those living in north America. Because they can easily sueYoutube which Youtubers from India and other developing countries can’t do.
harmful or dangerous content
You’re not supposed to post videos that encourage others to do things that might cause them to get badly hurt or injured, specially kids. Videos showing such harmful and/or dangerous acts may become age-restricted or even removed from YouTube depending on the severity.
Now you might be questioning as to whether cycling over high rise building roof tops can be recorded and uploaded on YouTube. It depends on your location. If you’re a north american YouTuber, you certainly can. But if you’re from an ‘ordinary’ country like India or Pakistan, just keep in mind that these things are prone to ‘heavily reporting’. So you had better not upload such content.
Predatory behavior and threat
When you will have some success in YouTubing, you may have 10k, even 20k subscribers on your channel. Just keep in mind that these 10k or 20k people don’t work for you and each of them may NOT be loyal to you. Also you can’t think of using them for any unfair purpose as pointed out before. Just because your channel has 20k subscribers doesn’t mean that you’re the king of the world now. You still have to behave properly and that too – all the time. A single slip might lead your channel to termination. Never ever show predatory behavior. Such behavior may be proved to be bad for your channel.
The best way to avoid showing such inappropriate behavior is to think that you’re just a YouTube user like everybody else. Also never to threaten anybody on YouTube. If any intentional threat is found by users and then reported, consider your channel as good as gone. I told you guys in a previous article that my first ever YouTube channel was terminated because of comment spamming. Well. I’m not sure about it. It could also have been a result of predatory behavior that some users thought I had shown. Because the last sentence of the comment I posted in several of my videos was “Such thieves and bandits should be banned from YouTube anyway”. Well, a statement like this can surely be reported to YouTube, can’t it?
YouTube prefers your viewers over you
We think at this stage you have surely got our point – community guidelines or whatever you like to call it, YouTube’s main policy is NOT to get against advertisers and viewers’ community. Here the number of ‘reporting’ community people has to be significant in order to consider a certain type of report/flagging. With that said, you can now come to know the rest of YouTube’s community guidelines by reading the following article:
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If you need to keep your YouTube channel intact and running, you have to follow YouTube’s community guidelines strictly. And one of these guidelines requires you to NOT comment spamming on YouTube videos. Because if you do that your channel can be suspended once and for all. Now I’m writing this post after receiving the following mail from a certain individual named ‘Kenny’ who happens to be one of my readers.
According to him, his channel was terminated because he adopted the unfair means of comment spamming on YouTube videos uploaded by other people. Well, the thing is that you are not allowed to do comment spamming on YouTube, even if the videos and the channel belong to You. I have had firsthand experience regarding it which I’m going to share with you at a later part of this blogpost.
The sort of comment spamming on YouTube he did
I most possibly told you guys in a previous post that sub4sub and like4like policy doesn’t actually benefit you in the long run. By doing this you can have a few temporary subscribers who are never going to watch your videos. Even if they click on your videos, they’re not going to watch them for long. And you’re going to have a short duration for average watch time, which in turn is going to damage your channel’s status.
Now the video whose link is given in the mail encourages new channels’ owners to do comment spamming on YouTube. It advises them to post sub4sub comments in its comments section. This way the video has collected a lot of comments till date. And since YouTube’s artificial intelligence depends on a report-based system, the video is still intact. May be only a few people have submitted reports against it. I guess the system mentioned above depends on a percentage of reports. Since a significant percentage scale of reports have not been submitted yet, YouTube’s automated system hasn’t taken this video into account.
Why is sub4sub actually considered comment spamming on YouTube?
If you need to post comments on a video, they have to be constructive. You must not leave hate comments, nor can you comment spamming on YouTube. And in order to leave constructive comments, you may have to watch the full video. If you watch it to the end, you will most definitely get some idea as to what constructive comments you can leave here. If your comments are great and catchy, people may actually come and visit your channel. This way you can increase the possibility of having new subscribers and views. The following article is a detailed version of our point here:
Now I need to explain why sub4sub and like4like comments are actually spams. It’s because these comments don’t contribute anything in viewers’ engagement. That means, when you leave these comments, you’re not actually engaging in the conversation. By posting this sort of comments, people are basically turning the comments section a ‘busy selfish’ marketplace, where new YouTubers are coming to buy and sell subscribers.
Surely, these activities aren’t supposed to take pace on YouTube. A YouTube channel can’t possibly grow this way. Instead of comment spamming on YouTube, if people posted constructive comments, then the comment section would certainly be a ‘lively’ community.
The followers are terminated, whereas the infringing video is still online
It’s really a matter of sorrow that the people who followed the above mentioned video are losing their channels one by one, but the misleading video is still intact on YouTube. As conscious people, we must do something about it. Let us all report that video anyway. First let me put the video in full scale on this blogpost. Here it is:
Before reporting the video, I think you should read this special article from our blog:
I believe now you know how to report an infringing YouTube video. For this particular video we’re discussing here, we have to realize that we need to choose ‘Spam or misleading’ option. Because this video is misleading new YouTubers by encouraging them to do comment spamming on YouTube. Thus many of them have started to get their channels terminated.
Under the ‘Spam or misleading’ section you have to choose ‘Scam and fraud’ and then press the ‘Next’ button. Now you have to select ‘Timestamp’. I guess a particular time-stamp is not needed for reporting this video, because it contains misleading instructions during almost the whole time.
Still I would suggest you to select 1:00 as timestamp, because at the last part of the video the uploader advises to join a particular forum outside of YouTube to do sub4sub activities. Although YouTube wouldn’t take even these activities kindly if they are found, still they are taking place outside of YouTube, aren’t they? That’s why this suggestion by the uploader is ‘less infringing’. Trust me, you don’t want to report everything to YouTube/Google; that would be a daunting task. Besides, even if you do, chances are, nothing will happen to the unscrupulous parties in most of the cases.
I guess the details you need to provide here are as follows:
‘This particular video is encouraging YouTube users to post spam comments like sub4sub and like4like on others’ videos. By following these instructions many people are having their channels terminated. So this video must be removed from YouTube as it already has misled hundreds of thousands of people. In addition, this video has thousands of spam comments in its comment section. People have posted these because the uploader of this video has instructed them to do so.’
If many people report this video with this language, I’m sure that this video will not only be removed from YouTube, but the channel will be terminated also. I feel disappointed thinking that this infringing video even has AdSense ads running on it every now and then.
Will you get your channel back, Kenny?
I’m sorry Kenny, the irony is that you’ll not most possibly get your channel back. But if your channel was really very important for you, then you should keep appealing every few days. Because experts say that repeated appeals can actually get you your channel back. In my case, I never tried appealing for a particular suspended channel more than twice or thrice. Well, here are our fine articles which detail how to properly appeal the suspension of your YouTube channel:
At this point I think I should share my experience regarding comment spamming on YouTube with you guys. Yes, my first ever YouTube channel was terminated due to comment spamming on YouTube. Actually when my channel became popular and started to have millions of views every single month, a few unscrupulous people started to steal my content. It was not possible on my part to find each and every of these channels with my content uploaded on them. So I came up with a bright(!) idea, I started to post the following comment in my own videos.
‘Dear viewers, recently some people have been illegally uploading my videos on their channels. If you happen to find such a channel, be sure to report them.’
Well, this comment was reported to YouTube by someone I don’t know, may be one of the ‘content thieves’ themselves. And instead of their channels, it was actually my channel to be terminated due to comment spamming on YouTube. I was very frustrated that nothing happened to the people who stole my content. On the contrary, I who was the content creator had to suffer.
Well, no matter what, my comment actually infringed community guidelines regarding comment spamming on YouTube. That’s why my channel/account was terminated. You can not possibly ask your viewers to report against someone else’s channel.
I guess I should have joined a multi channel network once my channel started to become popular. That way I would rather actually be benefited if someone stole my content. Because MCN makes sure that all the revenues earned through your videos eventually come to you, no matter where they are uploaded.
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This blog is supposed to be on YouTubing tips. Well, it in fact is; 90% of the posts are based on YouTube tips and tricks. But other than that there are a few things I have to share with the world. Otherwise, I guess I might actually deprive common people of some exquisite new information and experiences I just happened to encounter. That’s why today I’m going to write and publish a post on how to fight spam comments on a WordPress blog.
I guarantee you that this article is exclusive in that it covers latest scenario and what you actually may have to go through while attempting to stop spam on your blog. There are definitely good articles on this topic from famous and popular blogs. But I’m afraid that they may not be updated and thus are kind of misleading to the readers. If you try to follow them to every single word, you might actually get yourself in jeopardy.
Spam comments come in hundreds, don’t they?
Let me give you an example: they may be suggesting you to use a particular plugin; but when you decide to install that, you may not find it at all. May be the name of the plugin has changed or it is no longer available. Whatever it is, I say ‘Stick with me on this post to the end and I will show you how I finally got rid of all the spam comments on my blog once and for all’.
It’s not only my experience, but also other bloggers’ experience as well that they become victim of spam commenting virtually from the very first day of blogging. The fact is that the more popular your blog becomes, the more it is likely to be spammed.
When I first saw that many people/parties were commenting on my posts, I became happy as I thought my blog was getting popular day by day. But within a short time, I found that most of the comments were ‘average’ ones. That means, these comments could be submitted on any post on any blog; they were not specific to my posts/blog.
Also these ‘average’ comments had links to weird sites. I realized that these comments were submitted NOT because the readers(!) found interest in my posts, but they basically wanted to gather traffic on their sites. Because anyone clicking on their names would be directed to those apparently unsafe links. (This blogpost is on How to fight spam comments on a WordPress blog)
Since the comments had built-in links, they could not only steal my traffic/audience, but also could lead people to unknown and dangerous sites. So I wanted to NOT approve these comments. But I was still bound to approve them more or less, because I came to know that the number of approved comments indicate the popularity and standpoint of a blog.
Then I thought about getting rid of the links. At a point, I started doing that; I approved the comments after deleting the links. That way I was preventing my audience from visiting unsafe links. Still I wasn’t happy about the comments because they were being submitted every now and then. It felt like I would have to spend a significant amount of my time in dealing with these comments. In short, they became a constant threat to the peace of my mind.
Also in most of the cases, the comments didn’t have appropriate names for the posters. Whereas a comment poster’s name could be ‘John Smith’, many of these comments had weird phrases like ‘Health & Fitness’, ‘Legal Advice’ in the name section. It was obvious that even if these were real people, they were not interested in my posts or blog; they were simply interested in posting comments and attempting to increase traffic to their creepy blogs.
I was still trying to remain happy thinking that the number of approved comments on my blog was increasing day by day; this should get my blog in a better global ranking. But I was wrong, these comments without links were doing neither good nor bad to my blog. I was just stuck in a loophole, that’s all. Had these approved comments contained harmful links, they would certainly cause harm to my blog’s ranking.
I came to learn about this through another blog of mine. I experimentally approved a lot of comments on that blog and I didn’t get rid of any links. Clearly, 95% of those comments were no way associated with the posts of the blog. Within two or three days of time, I found that views on my blog sharply declined. So finally I learned my lesson. From that moment on, I was thinking about getting rid of spam comments once and for all.
That’s when I did a little research on how to fight spam comments on a WordPress blog. I found a few nice posts: some of them were from famous blogs and others were from NOT so famous ones. I decided to read the post from the most popular blog and really liked it a lot. But while I started to implement that on my blog, I faced a lot of problems. (This blogpost is on How to fight spam comments on a WordPress blog)
A few plugins were suggested on that post. I decided to install apparently ‘the most reliable’ plugin. But it complicated matters much more than I could withstand, so I got rid of it. Then I tried to install the ‘second reliable’ plugin, but it was not found at all. May be its name was changed after the publishing of that post, or it was deleted. Whatever the case might be, I was unable to install it. Then I tried the third plugin; it worked and I found it very useful.
This was actually a captcha plugin (Securimage-WP). It makes sure that only humans are able to post comments; this is exactly what I needed. You guys now might be asking me ‘Why are you blaming a nice blog that helped you find the particular plugin you were looking for?’ Well, I’m not exactly blaming it! I just want to stress that even the most popular blog or post could mislead and embarrass you.
For example, the blog I just mentioned here embarrassed me one more time. It had a post on ‘honeypot’ technology. I’m grateful to it because I learned about this nice technology from this blog. But when I decided the install the ‘honeypot’ plugin suggested by the blog, I just didn’t find it at all. I was disappointed once again. These are the reasons why I’m writing this post today on how to fight spam comments on a WordPress blog. Because I can claim that whatever information and strategy I’m offering here are updated and latest.
I also learned to use Aksimet to fight spam comments
For a long time, I’ve been hearing that Akismet helps you fight spam comments on your WordPress blog. But I was never able to use the plugin in this regard. This is because every time I advanced to use the ‘Aksimet’ plugin to detect and fight spam comments, an API key was sought for. And when I visited the associated site to get API, it asked for money. Frankly, I’m yet NOT in a position to spend money for plugins. So I simply used to quit on that site.
But recently I carefully observed ‘the money’ thing. I saw that it said ‘Name your price’. Previously I thought I had to pay at least a small amount. Although I was able to spend an amount of $5 to fight spam comments on my blog, I just didn’t have a credit card or any others standard means to pay that. So that stayed as ‘a bone in my throat’ up until now. Finally the creativity in me grew to try sliding the knob to its leftmost end. And I was successful! I finally discovered that I didn’t actually have to pay anything to use the ‘Akismet’ plugin help me fight spam comments.
Then I started using the plugin to detect spam comments out of the pending ones. I believe ‘Akismet’ properly does its job, though I’m not sure how it works. My reason for this is that if this didn’t work properly, why would millions of bloggers use it? Also as far as I’m concerned, Akismet is a built-in plugin provided by WordPress ‘Standard’ team. Frankly, I know nothing about this team, who they are and also how WordPress developing works! Anyway, I’m sure I will get to know about that later.
Akismet is probably not capable of detecting spam comments submitted by real humans. I’ve done a little research on that and came to learn a few things which I’m going to share with you guys now. I’m going to address you in such a manner that you’re also a blogger same as me.
If somebody submits a comment that has the person’s name as ‘Health & fitness’ or ‘Law & legal’, you should not allow it. Because the person who posted this comment didn’t like your post or blog. They simply did this with a view to gather traffic on certain blogs they’re assigned to. Also chances are, phrases like these look like they have nothing to do with your blog or contents. If you’re a tech blogger (same as me), there should NOT possibly be any comment on your posts which claim to relate to health and fitness or even ‘law and legal’. Frankly, this is simply absurd.
Also before approving a comment, take a sharp look at the email address provided. If the email address seems to be fake, then don’t approve the comment. Because the ‘comment poster’ is not here to engage with your post and audience community, they’re here to spam only. Be careful about people who provide multiple email addresses on different comments. Also don’t approve comments by people who tend to post a number of comments in a very short span of time. That’s all for today, I’ll be giving you more tips on blogging later.
This blogpost is on how to start a gaming YouTube channel. Read this to the end and you will come to know what you need to buy and do to start that. This post has been specially designed and written for beginners.
Why a gaming channel?
If I ask you ‘Who’s the most famous and successful YouTuber till date?’, I know your answer would be ‘PewDiePie’. He may not be the richest YouTuber now a days; but at least he was, for a couple of years. In fact, many of the richest YouTubers of all time were Gamers. This is because gaming YouTube videos easily get a significant scale of average watch time. No matter how old the viewer is, once they start watching a gaming video, it becomes difficult for them to look away from the video.
Also majority of the viewers of these videos are kids; they hardly use ad blocker and often click on advertisements put around the videos. That’s why the earnings on a gaming channel tend to become higher as compared to other niches’ YouTube channels.
4 main things you need to buy
There are four main things you need to purchase before starting your own gaming channel. They are: (i) capture card (ii) microphone (iii) editing software and (iv) PC.
Let’s start with capture card first and foremost. In this regard, you have to remember that HD is key, so you can’t possibly buy a second rated card. And your card must be able to capture video in 720p minimum and 60 frame per second (60 FPS). Frankly, this sort of cards are not cheap.
The capture card models we recommend to you are El Gato Game Cature HD and HAUPPAUGE HD PVR 2. You have to buy any one of them. Both of them are external USB cards with 1080p/30FPS and 720p/60FPS features. Either of them would cost you around $150. Since they are external, they are just super easy for you to set up.
[Besides the equipment, you also need to know how to create a YouTube channel and customize it. Here is our detailed article on that:
Frankly, if you’re looking for super cheap capture cards like DAZZLE DVC 100s or EZ CAPS or ROXIO GAME CAPTURES, then Gaming YouTubing is probably not for you. Days of using any one of those are pretty much behind us. If you need to stand out from the rest, you have to first ensure quality.
[If you think ‘gaming’ would be a costly niche for you, then you could choose another YouTubing niche that you think will suit you the most. We have an article to help you choose your particular niche out of many available. Here it is:
And speaking of quality, when you’re going to purchase a capture card, you need to keep in mind three things: resolution, frames per second as well as bit rate. Now ‘resolution’ is pretty obvious. You want the resolution to be at least 720p; the more, the better. Your frames per second is probably preferable if you record everything in 60 FPS, keep that in mind.
And bit rate, one of the biggest key factors in your recording quality, has to be at least 10 million bit per sec (Mbps). Most gaming YouTubers use 30 Mbps bit rate for good picture quality. Yes, this level of bit rate makes the file size really big; but to run a gaming channel now a days, you’re just left with no other choice. (This article is on How To Start a Gaming YouTube Channel)
sHOULD YOU GO FOR INTERNAL CAPTURE CARD?
Recently we interviewed an experienced and successful gaming YouTuber and asked him what capture card he uses. He said he used AVERMEDIA LIVE GAMER HD which is an internal capture card and it costs around $225.
But we’re not going to recommend that because in order to set it up you actually have to open up your PC (CPU) and install this capture card to your graphics card which is surely a hazardous and daunting task. As a new YouTuber you probably might NOT want to do that. And we too are recommending for you to choose one of the two external capture cards mentioned above.
[As a gaming YouTuber, you will have to face many copyright issues; that’s why you had better join a promising multi channel network right away. We know such one who will do everything for you within their means. They are called MediaCube-Network. To know more about them, read the following article:
The days of having a crackling headset MIC on YouTube are long gone, it’s not going to work for you guys anymore. The minimum microphone and also a standalone microphone for you to use would be Blue Snowball.
Now keep in mind that there are two types of microphones: condenser and dynamic. For your information, condenser microphones are great for interviews; they pick up all the sound within the room. On the other hand, dynamic microphones are suitable for solo commentating which is preferred for most gaming YouTube channels. (This article is on How To Start a Gaming YouTube Channel)
The ‘Blue Snowball’ is not a dynamic microphone, it’s actually a condenser. But still it’s a very good starting MIC. One gaming YouTuber known to me has been using this for quite a long time now. Blue Snowball is available to purchase online, it will cost you $20-$75 and it’s a pretty good quality stuff. [These are US standard market prices. In developing countries like India they could be much cheaper.]
But while I’ll be running my own gaming channel (very soon, I hope), I’ll probably be using a RODE PODCASTER. It’s a dynamic USB microphone. The user doesn’t have interface with it. It may cost a little more than a condenser microphone; each piece might cost you around $230.
Also with microphone, you need to download the free program ‘Audacity’. This is a free audio recording program which allows you to isolate background noise from your recordings and remove it. It’s simple and free, I don’t see any reason for you NOT to use it. Here are a couple of articles which describe the use of Audacity:
choosing the right Editing software: A big step on How To Start a Gaming YouTube Channel
There are two main editing software used by YouTubers: SONY VEGAS or ADOBE PREMIERE. Adobe Premiere can actually provide better quality videos, but it also comes with big learning curve. This is the reason why you may choose NOT to use it. Anyway, it’s premier version costs you $20/month.
Sony Vegas is easy to learn, but it is not capable of providing the finest quality video which Adobe Premiere can. Also Sony Vegas is pretty expensive, it costs you a one-time fee of $600.
However, the gaming YouTuber from my acquaintance I just mentioned earlier says he has been using Sony Vegas since his first day of YouTubing. (This article is on How To Start a Gaming YouTube Channel)
He gave me a few tips while editing with Sony Vegas:
(i) Disable resample: It is so simple that people often forget to disable it. Even if you’re recording with 60 FPS, be sure you have disabled resample on your video files. That way there won’t be any GHOSTING which is surely a gross thing. To get rid of ghosting, you must disable resample.
(ii) proper rendering: Sony AVC/MVC is the format he renders his videos in. While rendering your videos like recording your gameplay that bit rate is king, is super key to your quality. At least 10 million bit rate on most of your videos is recommended. You need to render your videos in 60 FPS, specially for YouTube. If your video duration is above 15 minutes, then you can drop it down to 30 FPS. This is just because a 60 FPS video is a giant file size as compared to 30 FPS videos.
A good PC plays an important role in your gaming channel
Now what we’re going to talk about is having a good PC. This is a big part in running a gaming channel. Whether you’re recording stuff on your console or you’re recording PC footage, your computer plays a huge part in your YouTube channel. Rendering videos on a low-configuration PC or in a laptop can actually be a giant pain. We quote our specialist in gaming YouTubing “I know it, I’ve been there. When I first started my YouTube channel, it took me 8+ hours to render a 10 minutes video at a very low bit rate”.
It’s okay to start a gaming channel on a low configuration PC or laptop. Only you might have to go through a bad PC schedule which would be (i) make video during day, (ii) render overnight, (iii) upload next day and (iv) repeat.
Oh, please, we were just kidding a little bit! Seriously, get a schedule so that you can create new gaming YouTube videos daily and consistently; even with a low config PC. If you want to grow your gaming channel, you’ll eventually have to upgrade your computer at some point, no doubt about that. (This article is on How To Start a Gaming YouTube Channel)
Your channel’s name is really important, make it memorable, catchy and original; no Xs and numbers may be used in the name. Good titles for YouTube videos are really important. Make sure they look good and accurately describe the video and are clear.
If you’re NOT sure what sort of titles you should be using, then go ahead and check out a few renowned gaming channels to see what they’re using. It’s okay to do that at beginning level, just don’t copy and paste the whole title. (This article is on How To Start a Gaming YouTube Channel)
Tags are also important for your videos. They play an important role in leading people to find your videos. Make sure they are clear and accurate. They should also indicate which video games you are making YouTube videos on. And be sure to use your channel branding as a tag in every video. That means, if your channel’s name is TopGamer2018, then you could use this keyword as a tag in every YouTube video of your channel. Also be sure to use this as a channel keyword.
Consisting content is key, ladies and gentlemen! Daily uploads, five videos a week, anything like that – get a schedule and stick to that. At the beginning it could even be 1 or 2 videos in a week, if you like. The thing is that people can’t find you unless you have videos; they then might get unmotivated.
If a new visitor comes to your channel and finds only two videos, that too neither of them are exciting – then they won’t possibly visit your channel homepage again. That’s why you’ve got to upload a lot of videos in the first few months of your YouTube channel. YouTube’s automated algorithm decides to promote your channel when you’re consistent in video uploading. (This article is on How To Start a Gaming YouTube Channel)
‘Longtail’ is your best friend
Longtail videos are those which are watched over prolonged period of time. Suppose I upload a video on my YouTube channel today, but it will be watched by viewers even three or five years later. Most successful YouTube channels have countless longtail videos. And they earn most of their revenue from such videos. (This article is on How To Start a Gaming YouTube Channel)
If the term ‘longtail’ isn’t yet clear to you, then let us give you another example. Think about a news based blog; consider two articles on it. One article describes an accident that took place in Mumbai, India and another describes how to lose weight. Surely the first article might be read on a huge scale in the first few days of its publishing, later it is very likely to lose its charm. But the second article being popular over an extended period (like 3-5 years) of time could be called a ‘longtail’ post on the news blog. (This article is on How To Start a Gaming YouTube Channel)
In order to create ‘longtail’ gaming videos, you might need to do a little research as to what games have been most popular in the last few months. And you could use AdWords keyword planner to find information like that. Here are a few posts you might find useful when it comes to keyword research:
It is probably an age old question as to how much money do you get for 1000 views on YouTube. In this blogpost we’re going to address that question. We’re going to cover all the factors that play role in this matter. Later we’re going to present the analytics of a moderately successful YouTube channel’s earnings and also where the earnings are mainly coming from.
Generally speaking, YouTubers get nothing for the views they generate on YouTube. It’s the ads around their videos which could generate revenues for them, not the number of views. So anyone getting a lot of views shouldn’t be thinking that they are going to earn a lot as well. It’s like an exam: it doesn’t really matter how much content you have written in your exam papers. What matters is how many quality and correct answers you’ve provided. The same idea goes for YouTube earnings. So you can see that there is no definite answer to the question ‘how much money do you get for 1000 views on YouTube’.
Let us put a number based example
Suppose your channel received 50,000 views and 1000 ads on a certain day. So you’re not going to get paid for the 50,000 views; you’re rather going to get paid for the 1000 ads that were shown around your videos. Another guy who received 25,000 views could earn more money than you if s/he luckily got more ads (like 1200 ads) than you did. Even a guy who received 1000 ads (same as you) could earn more money based on which countries he had most of the viewers from. So you can clearly guess there are many factors associated here.
An important factor to consider here is who’re watching your videos. If most of your viewers are from countries like US, UK, Canada then you can expect more revenues compared to your fellow YouTubers who receive traffic mainly from Asian countries like India, Pakistan etc. This is because advertisers from those developed countries pay much more to show ads on YouTube videos than their counterparts from under-developed countries. (This tutorial is on How much money do you get for 1000 views on YouTube)
What type of ads are mostly shown on your videos
According to some YouTube experts revenues on a channel depends to a great extent on what types of ads are mostly shown on the channel’s videos. You know ads are of different types: skippable ads, non-skippable ads, display ads, bumber ads. So different type of ads generates different amount of money.
Other than type of ads another important thing to consider is the type of content of your YouTube videos: what sort of videos you’re uploading on your YouTube channel. Are your videos funny, prank, tech reviews, educational, make-up or reaction-type? Every different type of content has different types of ads on them. So that way it also matters what kind of content you’re publishing in your videos and what type of advertisers bid on your videos. (This tutorial is on How much money do you get for 1000 views on YouTube)
Analytics on earnings of a moderately successful YouTube channel
Now we’re going to take a look at the earnings analytics of a moderately running channel. The name of the channel is not important here, just know that we’re presenting true and actual details; nothing is fake about it.
In terms of number of views, the top four countries are India, United States, Canada and Pakistan. The channel has received respectively 66682, 40497, 18325 and 9231 views from these countries in a certain month. So common sense predicts that the channel should earn maximum amount of its earnings from India. But surprisingly enough, it earns more from USA than India. Even the earnings from Canada is a little bit higher than that from India.
This data encourages you to create contents in English so that people from developed countries get to watch your videos. Also try to put good pronunciation and standard presentation skills including attractive slide-showing in the videos. (This tutorial is on How much money do you get for 1000 views on YouTube)
Type of ads play an important role here
Then we turned our attention to the types of ads on the channel. We found that most revenue were earned from Skippable video ads (Auction) and Display ads (Auction). The other three types of ads namely Bumper ads (Auction), Skippable video ads (Reserved) and Non-Skippable video ads (Auction) tend to generate lower levels of earnings. Interestingly enough, the ad types which earned lowest amounts had highest values for CPM. We hope you already know what CPM is. If not, then we shall describe those terms (associated with AdSense) in a future post.
Then again let me share with you what a certain expert and talented YouTuber taught me a few months ago. He is a very popular tech YouTuber from my country. I have watched many of his videos and really admired them. Well, according to him, we should not bother what types of ads are being shown on our videos. He argued that if we try to manipulate the type of ads to be displayed on our YouTube videos, this will not do us any good; it could rather do us harm by reducing our channel’s earnings. I personally never tried to manipulate the ‘type of ads’ to be shown on my channels’ videos.
So how much money do you get for 1000 views on YouTube?
Let us now summarize what we have learned in this tutorial. Now you surely know the answer to the question ‘How much money do you get for 1000 views on YouTube’. Actually YouTube earnings has nothing to do with the total number of views a channel gets. It is the number of ads that matters the most. So you have to make your videos advertisers friendly. And we believe the following article is going to help you a lot in this regard.
In brief, you have to create quality content. And these contents must NOT be controversial. Try to focus on having global viewers on your YouTube videos instead of local viewers. And always remember that audience retention is really a big factor. If you have higher watch time (display time) on your videos compared to your competitors, then you’re supposed to earn more than them. Here’s a blogpost describing the importance of average watch time on a YouTube channel.
If you know how to blur background or any portion of an already uploaded YouTube video, you’ll be benefited at some point – I can guarantee that. I am going to teach you that and also share my experience regarding this. So you’ll come to know why I think it’s a must to know to blur background of a YouTube video.
Example of a blurred image
Why you would need to blur background or any portion of a YouTube video?
Suppose you uploaded a video on your channel. At a certain instant/portion of this video it shows the face of an individual. When you have acquired thousands of views and hundreds of likes on it, that particular individual may allege to YouTube that he/she appears on that video unwillingly. Basically he doesn’t want to be shown. It doesn’t matter now whether he previously gave you his consent to show his face.
So now you need to get his face off your video. And since you already acquired a SEO standpoint on that video, you can’t simply edit the video in Photoshop and re-upload. Also may be, you can’t possibly delete that particular portion of the video no matter what. So what to do in a situation like this?
Well, luckily for people like you, YouTube has an option to blur background or any portion of an already uploaded video.
You might want to blur a certain portion of a YouTube video on your own
There could be other situations where you might want to blur a certain portion of an uploaded video on your own. You might think that these are the scenes which if shown publicly may raise controversy.
Also may be you didn’t notice previously that a certain portion of an uploaded YouTube video shows ‘copyright belongings’. This might happen if you unscrupulously uploaded someone else’s video. If you’re still determined to keep the video, then you need to blur that particular portion. Remember that we’re not encouraging you to infringe someone’s copyright. All we’re offering is a quick remedy to save your channel from getting strikes. It is best to always use your own content and there’s no alternative to this.
Now learn how to actually blur a portion of a YouTube video
Click on the ‘Edit’ option of the concerned YouTube video while you’re on video manager page of your channel. By default you will be on ‘Info & settings’ tab. You need to click on the ‘Enhancement’ tab. Wait a while and then you’ll see three side by side links in the middle of the screen.
You can blur not only faces, but also a certain portion of the video
You need to choose the rightmost option: Blurring effects. As you can see from the above image: you can blur not only faces, but also any certain portion of an uploaded YouTube video altogether. First I will teach you the ‘Custom blurring’, as I have used this the most. (This tutorial is on how to blur background youtube)
Custom blurring on a YouTube video
Click on the ‘Edit’ button next to custom blurring option. A new window will open and it will load your video in memory; this loading process might take a while. Go to the certain portion you want to blur by using the (time) slide. When you reach there, choose a portion of the screen by using the mouse. You have to choose the portion diagonally. So you’ll have to guess where to first click and then drag.
Once you have selected a certain frame, the associated bar will begin to process below. When it has processed, you can hit on the ‘lock’ option and thus lock the frame. Offhand, you can move the frame to anywhere else on the screen by dragging and dropping. The length of the bar represents the length of the blur; so you can change it if you need. You can even click and drag the bar to somewhere else, thus blurring another portion instead. If you’re still confused as to what I refer here as bar, you need to take a look at the following image.
The grey bar with the ‘Unlock’ tag is the thing I’m talking about
This way you can add multiple blurs at multiple places/instances of your YouTube video. You can even delete a certain blur if you think it was wrongfully made. After being done, be sure to hit the ‘Done’ button. Then you may need to hit another confirmation button. Your video will start to process the changes you made. The process will take time depending on the amount of changes you made and the length of the video.
Blur faces – is a process far too easy
If you hit the ‘Blur faces’ option, you will be shown all the faces that appear in the video. You just need to select which faces to blur. I guess you can also select a time duration where all the faces need to be blurred. Frankly, I didn’t try this option yet. So I don’t have much experience. You can try to do it, at least for experimental purpose and then let me know what you found. I really don’t have time to experiment at this moment. So I guess it’s just up to you. (This tutorial is on how to blur background youtube)
My own experiences regarding this topic
Back in September 2016, I had two YouTube channels. One was running successfully and another was struggling to have success. Naturally I was busy uploading and editing videos on the ‘running’ channel. In the meantime, a video of the ‘struggling’ channel contained the image of a lady from my country. I used that as a model’s face. In those days I wasn’t aware of ‘copyright thing’ of images found on Google. So I just used a randomly found image. (This tutorial is on how to blur background youtube)
Well, the lady somehow knew that I had used her image and she (most probably) reported to YouTube regarding this. Then YouTube sent me a mail about this issue and told me to blur her face in my video. But I was just so darn busy with my other channel that I even didn’t notice that mail. As a result, after a certain time, YouTube was left with no other option but simply to remove the video from my channel. I was lucky that I didn’t receive a strike based on that. However YouTube rules and regulations are now far too strict compared to the days in 2016. So be sure to use only copyright free and self created images. And if needed, blur any portion or face in your YouTube video. Stay safe.
Here’s an article depicting how to download copyright free images which I do all the time.
In this knowledge base article we’re going to present a few riddle like situations that almost all new YouTubers have to go through. Read this article to the end and see whether you too faced such riddles.
Many pretty face are coming into the business of YouTubing now a days
The view count problem: Most new Youtubers face
May be you just started to have views on your YouTube videos. And you somehow learned to use realtime analytics to track number of views. These views also reflect on your AdSense dashboard. But you don’t see the views to increase on your channel’s video manager or dashboard page right next to the videos themselves. And you’re astonished as to why that is.
Well, for your information, Google/YouTube officials firsthand check whether you earned the views in a legitimate way or not. Once they have done the checking and found nothing wrong about it, they approve the true number of views on the video manager and dashboard pages of your YouTube channel. This approval usually takes a few hours, so nothing to worry about; just relax, you’re going to get what you deserve.
Earnings are not reflected on AdSense
YouTube earnings are different from blog earnings in the sense that they are not updated daily on AdSense. Rather they are updated once in a month.
You might be familiar with a blogger who says he has earned $21 today. So you jumped to a conclusion that earnings on AdSense are updated daily. Honestly, in case of blogging, it’s even better; because earnings are updated every once in a while (every 10-20 minutes). But you shouldn’t expect the same for your YouTube earnings. I am not exactly sure why AdSense has a different policy for YouTubers.
Well, at least you get to know your daily earnings on your channel’s dashboard. And the neat thing about this is that you’re going to get the exact amount that shows on dashboard. I haven’t heard of any exceptions to this day. If your channel’s dashboard shows that you have earned $300 in a certain month, then you can expect exactly $300 to be deposited into your bank account from AdSense at the end of the next month. It is that much neat, Google hasn’t ever played around with this thing yet.
If you are not satisfied yet and want to see some practical numbers on your today’s YouTube earnings on AdSense, it’s possible too. The numbers you can see are called estimated earnings which are most obviously not your actual earnings. We shall publish a post on how to find those earnings soon.
How to handle ‘the AdSense PIN’ thing
Once new YouTubers earn at least $10 on their AdSense dashboard, they are sent a four digit PIN. But they just don’t know how to handle this PIN. They wonder as to how many times they should apply for the PIN. Well the answer is: they can apply for the PIN for three times. Every time YouTubers apply for a new PIN mail, the ‘official’ time it should take for the mail to arrive is twenty one days. But in actual case, it might be a little longer than that: almost one month or may be 35 days.
So once you apply for a PIN, after 21 days you can apply again. And don’t worry, no matter how many letters you get, they will contain the same PIN within them. So once you have submitted an application to have a PIN, it doesn’t mean that you can’t submit again; because you most certainly can do that no matter what.
Even if you believe the first mail is processing on its way to your physical address, you can appeal for a second time, and a third time. After three consecutive submissions, if you still don’t receive any of the mails, then you can use your bank statement. You need to simply scan this document and upload the image onto your AdSense.
My experience regarding the ‘uploading image’ thing
My experience says that AdSense doesn’t even verify this uploaded image. (Not that I’m encouraging anyone to adopt any unfair means.) I am saying this because one moment I uploaded the scanned image of my bank statement and the next moment they said my AdSense account was verified. How did they verify the document in the blink of an eye? I believe documents like this need to be verified manually and it takes around 6-8 hours on an average to do that. However, it is just my experience that I thought I could share with you guys.
May be AdSense has a policy that once a certain individual uploads the scanned copy of their bank statement or any other official document that has their physical address on it, their AdSense account is instantly verified without human intervention. Because you know AdSense account is really valuable to all YouTubers and they won’t possibly play around with it. That’s why Google’s AdSense team believes that anyone trying to upload such document has to be genuine and sincere, for their own sake. However, it is simply a conspiracy theory from me; I don’t claim it to be 100% correct.
