PVS
Active Member
First off, this is not a rant or anything. Just sharing my experience. Personal and with the network. About a year and a half ago I started my YouTube channel. It was mainly music oriented (we all know how dodgy that can be) and I managed to partner with Life (or a least on of their daughter networks).
Things were fine, I liked the paypal system, the flow was good. Support was OK I guess (although I didn't need it much). From what understand they are located in Russia. Of course there's no mention of helping with the channels "popularity" but I understand that. If you're good, you 're good and you become popular.
Naturally with the music uploading stuff, things can go dodgy many times. For a long time in the beginning, for every two weeks or so, they were claiming all the videos and applying FULL advertisement on them. I figured that out 6 months in - I initially thought that was a YouTube glitch.
This resulted to a copyright strike (or two). That's how I found out it was the network that was actually applying the Monetising on all the videos. Good luck defending yourself to the label that issued the strike afterwards. "It wasn't me, it was the network"
well, long story short, I resolved 3 strikes already (got them in different times). Now I am only left with one that will expire this June. I know, I know it's dangerous with music but I only monetise MY music. Stuff that I compose.
About 2 months ago I started vlogging. Once a week and mainly outdoors and travelling. Fun stuff for me. I don't do this for the fame, it's just easier to show a video to my friends than 1000 photos. If something happens and there's some buzz, I'd welcome it. ANYWAY...
As of last night Life dropped me. Just like that. No email, no nothing. Crap thing about it is that I cannot monetise my Vlog anymore because of that one strike. The thing that hurts me the most though, is the fact that I can't upload a custom thumbnail anymore. So I have to rely on YouTube's choice of snapshot.
Oh well... Have a great day everyone and keep YouTubing
Things were fine, I liked the paypal system, the flow was good. Support was OK I guess (although I didn't need it much). From what understand they are located in Russia. Of course there's no mention of helping with the channels "popularity" but I understand that. If you're good, you 're good and you become popular.
Naturally with the music uploading stuff, things can go dodgy many times. For a long time in the beginning, for every two weeks or so, they were claiming all the videos and applying FULL advertisement on them. I figured that out 6 months in - I initially thought that was a YouTube glitch.
This resulted to a copyright strike (or two). That's how I found out it was the network that was actually applying the Monetising on all the videos. Good luck defending yourself to the label that issued the strike afterwards. "It wasn't me, it was the network"

About 2 months ago I started vlogging. Once a week and mainly outdoors and travelling. Fun stuff for me. I don't do this for the fame, it's just easier to show a video to my friends than 1000 photos. If something happens and there's some buzz, I'd welcome it. ANYWAY...
As of last night Life dropped me. Just like that. No email, no nothing. Crap thing about it is that I cannot monetise my Vlog anymore because of that one strike. The thing that hurts me the most though, is the fact that I can't upload a custom thumbnail anymore. So I have to rely on YouTube's choice of snapshot.
Oh well... Have a great day everyone and keep YouTubing
