I have enabled monitazation on my account but have no videos monetized plus havnet linked an adsesne account yet. Will this affect anything?
No I was talking about adsense. In the end to become partner you will have to enable monetization. I think if you enable it before getting partner you will get the video thumbnail option which is awesome. Just don't enable ads until you are full partner.
so how do you become a partner? does someone contact you? is there a certian criteria? right now I have all my videos monetized. also, will that effect a "partnering"?
To become partner someone either will contact you or you can apply yourself if you think you meet the requirements. There are scouts on every network but it is possible they didn't see your channel so most of the time people apply themselves on a network.
If you have monetized all your video's it will not effect the partnership queue. If you have adsense enabled it will. Because when a network wants you to join them youtube needs to unlink your adsense account from your youtube which takes 1 maybe 2 weeks.
And almost always people who had Adsense enabled did not earned enough money to get the pay out.[DOUBLEPOST=1354434178,1354433886][/DOUBLEPOST]
And how about adds? I can only diable them on footage that is mine but if i disable it and footage isnt mine, would my account be banned?
when a video isn't yours you are not allowed to add ads on it. most of the time the video gets removed and you get a warning or a strike. It also happens that the owner allows you to keep the video and the video gets marked as matched third party content. When this happens you can keep your video but the owner gets the money from it. (Youtube will automatically put ads on the video)
Most of the time Partner networks want you to delete any of these video's that match third party content.
No your account will not be banned if you upload content that isn't yours but you might get a copyright strike which makes you unable to get partnered in the future on your account.