Hi guys,
I have spent a year slowly building up my channel. I have checked Valve's terms and conditions and you are free to upload and monetize videos as long as you are not charging people to view the content. I'm sure ads don't count here. The game I play is Counter-Strike.
I have had one or two videos posted on the CSGO Blog advertising the Zombie Escape Mod which I am active on in both Source and Global Offensive. I have also been a Youtube Partner for a while and monetized my videos not knowing about the ads at the time. When I first monetized my content I thought all it did was drawer extra viewers lol. I was worried to do anything for a long while because of the whole copyright saga. As I do not own Counter-Strike, all I owned was the video that I recorded being played on their game and somebody elses map.
I have had plenty of inbox messages in the past 6 months from various networks and dismissed them all. For a long while I have been uploading just because I enjoyed recording the content I was playing, that as well as the copyright issue that surrounds everybody who posts anything these days.
Recently though I applied for Adsense. As far as I'm aware I have been accepted. I spoke to somebody else who records and earns money from the same sort of stuff that I'm recording and he's doing pretty well albeit with more subscribers. The thing that worried me was firstly not owning the game and then any sound that is played in the custom maps I clearly do not own. Some of this has been flagged as WMG and I cannot monetize which is fair enough, some of the others are being claimed by fraud companies that don't own the music, but as I don't either I don't know whether I can actually challenge that. I also do not do commentary, although a lot of microphone chatter including my own voice is included in the rounds.
So guys what do you think? Can I actually sign with a network or not? and if I can which one could I actually choose? I do plan to silence the sound as best as possible, and just record the map in future. Some maps can be silenced by options - turn down the music setting which silences the background noise but keeps the gameplay sound. That option isn't available for all maps though.
I have tried to stick to a niche and the same games. Yeah, it may become boring after a while, but I owe it to the people who have subscribed to keep the same sort of stuff as that is what they have come to expect.
I have spent a year slowly building up my channel. I have checked Valve's terms and conditions and you are free to upload and monetize videos as long as you are not charging people to view the content. I'm sure ads don't count here. The game I play is Counter-Strike.
I have had one or two videos posted on the CSGO Blog advertising the Zombie Escape Mod which I am active on in both Source and Global Offensive. I have also been a Youtube Partner for a while and monetized my videos not knowing about the ads at the time. When I first monetized my content I thought all it did was drawer extra viewers lol. I was worried to do anything for a long while because of the whole copyright saga. As I do not own Counter-Strike, all I owned was the video that I recorded being played on their game and somebody elses map.
I have had plenty of inbox messages in the past 6 months from various networks and dismissed them all. For a long while I have been uploading just because I enjoyed recording the content I was playing, that as well as the copyright issue that surrounds everybody who posts anything these days.
Recently though I applied for Adsense. As far as I'm aware I have been accepted. I spoke to somebody else who records and earns money from the same sort of stuff that I'm recording and he's doing pretty well albeit with more subscribers. The thing that worried me was firstly not owning the game and then any sound that is played in the custom maps I clearly do not own. Some of this has been flagged as WMG and I cannot monetize which is fair enough, some of the others are being claimed by fraud companies that don't own the music, but as I don't either I don't know whether I can actually challenge that. I also do not do commentary, although a lot of microphone chatter including my own voice is included in the rounds.
So guys what do you think? Can I actually sign with a network or not? and if I can which one could I actually choose? I do plan to silence the sound as best as possible, and just record the map in future. Some maps can be silenced by options - turn down the music setting which silences the background noise but keeps the gameplay sound. That option isn't available for all maps though.
I have tried to stick to a niche and the same games. Yeah, it may become boring after a while, but I owe it to the people who have subscribed to keep the same sort of stuff as that is what they have come to expect.
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. Thanks for clearing that up though. I was worried, and didn't really want to make comebacks and cause an argument if I was in the wrong.