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GrgakGames
Phoenix Games Enthusiast (Please end my life)
With how small your channel is there would be nothing to gain from working with freedom.
The whole spiel about "OH YOU WILL GAIN MORE TRACTION" or w/e is a ruse.
If you want to try it out though right now would be the best chance as your channel is small and it won't effect you in any way money wise if that is what you want to happen later down the road.
I'm joined up with TGN as of right now with that mindset and it's just as bad as people say when getting sponsored.
The whole spiel about "OH YOU WILL GAIN MORE TRACTION" or w/e is a ruse.
If you want to try it out though right now would be the best chance as your channel is small and it won't effect you in any way money wise if that is what you want to happen later down the road.
I'm joined up with TGN as of right now with that mindset and it's just as bad as people say when getting sponsored.
Rails2Revolution
Super Poster
Personally I'd recommend against joining a network unless you are a large YouTuber.
Generally networks, especially huge ones like Freedom, don't offer you anything worth the money and time you give away.
Will their advertisement sales team increase your CPM? Usually not and definitely not on a huge network like Freedom. Not to mention this isn't even in the contract.
Will they make you somehow more popular in search results? nope.
Do they provide free music? probably, but music can easily be found for free from sites like:
- Incompetech
- Freesound
- Bensound
- FreePD
- CCMixter
- PacDV
- PublicDomain4u
- Not to mention YouTube's own creator music library.
Plus music is not worth even 10% of your revenue when it can be found for free.
Dashboard? I haven't seen a single dashboard I would pay money for.
SEO? You can do you own SEO, with many free tools and resources out there. Google adwords has a keywords resource, and if you're still lazy you can literally YouTube search the first word of your video title, put all suggestions as tags, do the next word of title, add as tags, repeat.
They'll help you get more sponsors? I've only seen networks that show you companies that tend to do sponsorships with small yotubers and give contact details. This is nothing you can't do yourself by looking for companies and getting in touch via email.
Wait, they'll help you collaborate with more YouTubers through their channel networking? Right cause you need to pay to meet new people that already exist on YouTube.
Unless they are offering something unique that I've never seen with networks I'd strongly recommend against joining a network.
The reason I say only unless you're a large YouTuber is because generally if networks want a chance at getting a large channel, they must make a contract that is going to give that youtuber something proper. For instance, actual cameras. Thousands of dollars worth of film gear. Sponsorships at the door step that dont require them to sell their soul and make dedicated sponsor info segments. You get the gist.
Since you asked I haven't been with Freedom but in the past I've been with numerous networks including SocialBlade, CreativeNation, BroadbandTV and Curse.
And the end of the day, think about the % they take over the course of time. If you made $50 a month from youtube, and your network took 20% every month for a contract of a year, that's $120 that could have gone to say a new microphone, computer part, good camera stand, lights, or something for your personal life.
Generally networks, especially huge ones like Freedom, don't offer you anything worth the money and time you give away.
Will their advertisement sales team increase your CPM? Usually not and definitely not on a huge network like Freedom. Not to mention this isn't even in the contract.
Will they make you somehow more popular in search results? nope.
Do they provide free music? probably, but music can easily be found for free from sites like:
- Incompetech
- Freesound
- Bensound
- FreePD
- CCMixter
- PacDV
- PublicDomain4u
- Not to mention YouTube's own creator music library.
Plus music is not worth even 10% of your revenue when it can be found for free.
Dashboard? I haven't seen a single dashboard I would pay money for.
SEO? You can do you own SEO, with many free tools and resources out there. Google adwords has a keywords resource, and if you're still lazy you can literally YouTube search the first word of your video title, put all suggestions as tags, do the next word of title, add as tags, repeat.
They'll help you get more sponsors? I've only seen networks that show you companies that tend to do sponsorships with small yotubers and give contact details. This is nothing you can't do yourself by looking for companies and getting in touch via email.
Wait, they'll help you collaborate with more YouTubers through their channel networking? Right cause you need to pay to meet new people that already exist on YouTube.
Unless they are offering something unique that I've never seen with networks I'd strongly recommend against joining a network.
The reason I say only unless you're a large YouTuber is because generally if networks want a chance at getting a large channel, they must make a contract that is going to give that youtuber something proper. For instance, actual cameras. Thousands of dollars worth of film gear. Sponsorships at the door step that dont require them to sell their soul and make dedicated sponsor info segments. You get the gist.
Since you asked I haven't been with Freedom but in the past I've been with numerous networks including SocialBlade, CreativeNation, BroadbandTV and Curse.
And the end of the day, think about the % they take over the course of time. If you made $50 a month from youtube, and your network took 20% every month for a contract of a year, that's $120 that could have gone to say a new microphone, computer part, good camera stand, lights, or something for your personal life.
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AlexGotBeats
Blessed & Cursed
If you wanna know someones opinion about any network theres a network review section here on YTtalk. You can read those.
