How long have you been with RPM for?

elementalfact0r said:
Wow sorry to hear that, I barely use the RPM forums except lurk there once and awhile. It seems like a nice place to pickup some tips, but in 1 year I may have posted there maybe 10 times.
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Thanks, outside of the forum and the custom thumbnails ability I really am not sure where the benefit of being partnered is. They say that they get you higher paying ads but in talking to folks with straight YouTube partnerships I really can't see them doing that at least for my little account. I thought we got some protection against copyright issues from let's plays, but, a staff member posted in the forum that sense RPM is not a gaming network they don't cut any deals with devs and publishers to cover their partnered gaming channels. I have also read post from staff saying that it is not RPM's job to help promote partnered channels. So I honestly have no clue what I am giving RPM 40% of my earnings for other then a custom thumbnail and to hope to be noticed someday, once I have grown on my own, by Polaris (TGS).
 
Custom Thumbnails are nice, but being noticed by Polaris (tgs) is the ultimate goal. I heard the details of protection for gaming videos is very fuzzy, to say the least, as for promotion I can't say much since I focus on mainly doing it myself. The benefits are ok, but there is that hope to get noticed by Polaris, and my main drive. Thanks for the sub :)
 
elementalfact0r said:
Custom Thumbnails are nice, but being noticed by Polaris (tgs) is the ultimate goal. I heard the details of protection for gaming videos is very fuzzy, to say the least, as for promotion I can't say much since I focus on mainly doing it myself. The benefits are ok, but there is that hope to get noticed by Polaris, and my main drive. Thanks for the sub :)
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Thanks for the insight. For me it seems that is also my main benefit. Give up 40% in hopes of one day maybe catching the eye of someone at Polaris. Though if it don't happen by the end of my contract next summer I might go with TGN at that point.

Welcome for the sub, you have some interesting content. I am recording Deep Space for a let's play soon. I want to do all 3 of them. So far I really love Deep Space.
 
Sir Jaxxy said:
I have been with RPM since the end of June 2013 and have been regretting partnering with them since the second week of July 2013. I honestly should have just worked on building up my views and then joined TGN.

RPM takes 2 to 3 Weeks to reply to a support ticket! If you say anything bad about RPM in the RPM forums (the ones on the Maker dashboard) they ban you from the forums, a violation of my contract. And oh yeah they change your referral links without telling you. So all the links you have out on your videos and elsewhere still take folks to the RPM application but you no longer get credit for those referrals!
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Support has been slow recently, but people dont get banned off the forums unless they swear like crazy or just go nuts. I've seen folks that post continuously negatively about RPM and still arent banned.

Sorry you had a bad experience, but all networks have their issues and folks who hate them and folks who love them. Im the exact opposite of you. I went from TGN to RPM.
 
TDKPyrostasis said:
Support has been slow recently, but people dont get banned off the forums unless they swear like crazy or just go nuts. I've seen folks that post continuously negatively about RPM and still arent banned.

Sorry you had a bad experience, but all networks have their issues and folks who hate them and folks who love them. Im the exact opposite of you. I went from TGN to RPM.
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Well I have never swore in any post. I never insulted or made fun of anyone. In general just posted my feelings on what was happening with the referral links being changed without notice and losing credit for the links we had in action. Made some post about folks that were getting very few daily views making user guids and why they thought they were qualified to do so. In the end I have no idea why I was banned or for what posts as I was never warned. Unless negative reputation is suppose to count as a warning. Hmm maybe it was my post replying to the 2 negative reputation notices that did me in.

I am not saying TGN is any better, never been partnered with them. Though as an outsider looking in they do seem to be much more active and actually promote their partners.
 
Sir Jaxxy said:
I have been with RPM since the end of June 2013 and have been regretting partnering with them since the second week of July 2013. I honestly should have just worked on building up my views and then joined TGN.

RPM takes 2 to 3 Weeks to reply to a support ticket! If you say anything bad about RPM in the RPM forums (the ones on the Maker dashboard) they ban you from the forums, a violation of my contract. And oh yeah they change your referral links without telling you. So all the links you have out on your videos and elsewhere still take folks to the RPM application but you no longer get credit for those referrals!
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I was with TGN before going to RPM. I like TGN's payment than RPM. But they are inconsisten on when to give your money. It's either 2nd week to 3rd week while RPM gives it on the first day or within the first week.

I don't really care about referrals though. About the support ticket, it only took me 2days for the first reply.
 
karlsanada10 said:
I was with TGN before going to RPM. I like TGN's payment than RPM. But they are inconsisten on when to give your money. It's either 2nd week to 3rd week while RPM gives it on the first day or within the first week.

I don't really care about referrals though. About the support ticket, it only took me 2days for the first reply.
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Thanks for the info on TGN. Right now I have about 9 months left on my contract so I have plenty of time to research and decide what I am going to do when it comes time to renew or not renew it.

As for the referrals, it is not so much that I am concerned with getting referrals for them. It is, however, the fact that they added a secondary income stream that many of us then went and add the links to our videos. They then changed those links, stopping us from getting any credit while still actively sending folks to an application that RPM no longer loses part of their income. Now if they are going to do something that dishonest, how do I trust them to pay me on my ad revenue? At least with the ad revenue I have YouTube to compare numbers with.
 
Sir Jaxxy said:
Thanks for the info on TGN. Right now I have about 9 months left on my contract so I have plenty of time to research and decide what I am going to do when it comes time to renew or not renew it.

As for the referrals, it is not so much that I am concerned with getting referrals for them. It is, however, the fact that they added a secondary income stream that many of us then went and add the links to our videos. They then changed those links, stopping us from getting any credit while still actively sending folks to an application that RPM no longer loses part of their income. Now if they are going to do something that dishonest, how do I trust them to pay me on my ad revenue? At least with the ad revenue I have YouTube to compare numbers with.
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But mind you, I was with TGN when George was still the owner. He left on December I think then made his new network(oh, he lives here in my country.xD) so I don't really know much what happened to TGN since I left which is September.
 
karlsanada10 said:
But mind you, I was with TGN when George was still the owner. He left on December I think then made his new network(oh, he lives here in my country.xD) so I don't really know much what happened to TGN since I left which is September.
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Same here. I was with TGN under George and while George is a nice guy the network was horribly mismanaged under him. I've heard that the networks gotten better in the past year and a half... but very similar to other businesses you get one chance with me and if you screw it up your most likely never getting my business again.

Partnership networks are very similar. The main issue is when people first sign usually they are extremely small and will take anything to simply get partnered. This leads to a bunch of scavenger networks that will take just about anyone but offer very little in return.

As you get bigger you learn a lot and you can start getting into the premiere networks that have way better support and features. Sadly with the current business model and the way youtube works unless your pulling in seven figure views a month your just not given much credit.
 
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