I can't tell if I'm earning more because I won't see a report until the end of my first month as partner. I know they say I'm making 30% more than I was and I am higher in the search engines now. I have not noticed a change in subscriber growth rate, it's pretty much exactly how it was, I get a sub or two every day and I go up about 4-6 every time I put out a video, that's how it was before I got partnered. Fullscreen lists a whole lot of services they provide in their contract, sponsorship, collaborations they set up between small partners and large partners, I have not been contacted about any of these things. However keep in mind I've been a partner I think I a little over a week.
Now while I can't verify that I'm making more money, I see no way I wouldn't be, before I was a partner I couldn't monetize any of my music videos, now they all get monetized immediately.
I have actually noticed a drop in my view count on individual videos since being partnered, I'm still climbing at a few hundred total video views a day, but I used to get around 100 views on each new video within 24 hours, that is now cut in half to about 50. However, MANY people are saying their view counts are dropping and attributing it to this glitch that's been going around and I just happened to get partnered right as the whole glitch thing occurred. So I highly doubt having banners and a thumbnail have caused my views to drop, I'd attribute it to whatever problem is going around with most every channel.
The one thing I'm frustrated with my network about is that I e-mailed them and basically said "ok I'm a partner, where do I go from here?" And they didn't respond for a week. I then e-mailed and asked a question about my W-9 and asked them to respond to my question and told them I'd been hurt by the glitch, and they wrote back telling me how to do the W-9 and said alot of their partners were hurt by the glitch and youtube would fix it soon, but ignored my question about how to promote and what to do from here.
I don't know if it was just an honest mistake, or if they're just like "you're on your own" at this point I am still very happy to be a partner and wouldn't unmake my decision in becoming one for a second, but I am disappointed that I don't feel like I'm as much a part of a team as I thought I'd be. I also thought there'd be a forum or a place where I could meet all the other partners on my network and get to know others, like I'd be in on a special club. it's not seeming to be like that at all, I've searched and searched for some kind of "fullscreen partners group" and there just doesn't seem to be one.
So I guess to summarize, I AM very happy with the results, and glad to be a partner, but I am ALSO a little bit disappointed that it doesn't seem to be AS helpful as I'd always imagined.
