RPM's new partner requirements

[MattZ]

Indeed I think CPM will drop alot for everyone. If everyone becomes partner and monetize I think we all will notice it.

Yep, for me on a personal level RPM's partner support has been fairly slow via emails anyway and I think it will be way slower now so this is very disappointing.

 

[JosPlays]

Yep, for me on a personal level RPM's partner support has been fairly slow via emails anyway and I think it will be way slower now so this is very disappointing.

Well I Always go to my recruiter when I need help. He respond in 99% of the time within a few hours and really tries to do something. I know he was very supportive for a vanity url.
I think the real RPM support is indeed slow as ....

 

[ForeverAlonePrick]

CPM's and partner support may drop in quality vastly though.

Not necessarily. Here's how it works: there are great ads, good ones, average ones, and s****y ones. Which ones you get depends on your audience retention, in comparison to the audience retention of your fellow network partners. If there are more small people, they won't do much.

1) smaller channels tend to have lower audience retention, because they suck and will never grow at all. These channels will have almost no impact on you.

2) some of those channels may have amazing audience retention, but if their views are so small, their space in the market will be too small. It's like how you don't worry about the price of Microsoft stock might plummet by adding your 10 shares to it.

The second one may become a worse problem if time continues to go on and tons of small channels with stellar audience retention are added (which is very unlikely), but at that point they have the same effect as the network adding one or two more big channels to their network. I doubt it will affect you that much, unless you were getting paid more than you were worth.

 

[MattZ]

Not necessarily. Here's how it works: there are great ads, good ones, average ones, and s****y ones. Which ones you get depends on your audience retention, in comparison to the audience retention of your fellow network partners. If there are more small people, they won't do much.

1) smaller channels tend to have lower audience retention, because they suck and will never grow at all. These channels will have almost no impact on you.

2) some of those channels may have amazing audience retention, but if their views are so small, their space in the market will be too small. It's like how you don't worry about the price of Microsoft stock might plummet by adding your 10 shares to it.

The second one may become a worse problem if time continues to go on and tons of small channels with stellar audience retention are added (which is very unlikely), but at that point they have the same effect as the network adding one or two more big channels to their network. I doubt it will affect you that much, unless you were getting paid more than you were worth.

It also depends on many other factors though which include things like % of English speaking viewers etc. But I agree with your points its unlikely to directly effect me its more the principal that annoys me I guess, also the fact that partner support has been slow for me and I'm guessing its about to get a whole lot slower.

 

[ForeverAlonePrick]

its more the principal that annoys me I guess

Don't bother with that. Partnership has essentially been useless for closing in on a year now. There's nothing special about it. Just make videos and enjoy the experience.

also the fact that partner support has been slow for me and I'm guessing its about to get a whole lot slower.

True, they will get slower. However, I personally almost never use partner support. I did with TGN regarding payments, but I don't really ever feel the need to contact Fullscreen about anything. Then again, I don't know much about the functionality of their forums or services, so I probably shouldn't complain.

 

[MattZ]

Don't bother with that. Partnership has essentially been useless for closing in on a year now. There's nothing special about it. Just make videos and enjoy the experience.



True, they will get slower. However, I personally almost never use partner support. I did with TGN regarding payments, but I don't really ever feel the need to contact Fullscreen about anything. Then again, I don't know much about the functionality of their forums or services, so I probably shouldn't complain.

Don't even get me started on forums the RPM one is so annoying but that's not RPM's fault its down to the fact that people don't read their contracts so have to ask the rest of us 101 questions about everything. Yeah I know what your saying it won't effect my videos or anything its just a bit irritating to see a company that had a very good reputation risk tarnishing it but then again $ talks.

 

[Tarmack]

CPM is going to go down, there is no question. That's what happens when you eliminate any possibility of a shortage of supply. What google is doing is moving YouTube in the direction of everything having advertisements on it. When a significant portion of YouTube is monetized, the number of ad slots available will be far greater than today which will drop the price individually. As that happens, network CPM's will drop. There will still be premium advertising space, but the disparity between top end CPM and bottom end will be large.

As for RPM the network itself, I have my doubts they hired a significant support team to handle the influx of new "small" partners. I don't concur with those saying nothing with RPM will change. It will be harder to get ahold of them.

 

[MattZ]

CPM is going to go down, there is no question. That's what happens when you eliminate any possibility of a shortage of supply. What google is doing is moving YouTube in the direction of everything having advertisements on it. When a significant portion of YouTube is monetized, the number of ad slots available will be far greater than today which will drop the price individually. As that happens, network CPM's will drop. There will still be premium advertising space, but the disparity between top end CPM and bottom end will be large.

As for RPM the network itself, I have my doubts they hired a significant support team to handle the influx of new "small" partners. I don't concur with those saying nothing with RPM will change. It will be harder to get ahold of them.

Yep agree with this ^

 

[Mashido]

I signed in the 60/40 moment right before they switched to 50/50... Not gonna re-sign with them once everything is over.
I'd rather go with another network after that.
If any of you guys are Youtube partner with adsense, it would be better than RPM alone UNLESS you have hard time dealing with Youtube never believing you owned any content like me. Even after providing proofs, it's still pending for months. So in this case, being in a network is better than nothing. Being in a better network is even better. But if you could monetize no problem as Youtube partner, then don't even join stuff like RPM! LOL...

 

[TwinTails]

So, It seems that RPM is now taking a turn for the worse. Since they dropped the view requirement on there partnerships, they are now turning into the new AwesomenessTV. It's brilliant to see the quality of a hard-earned partnership slowly going down the drain

Is there an official announcement for this or did someone just find out they got accepted while not meeting the previous requirements?