Paying for a shoutout

[coliwob]

Considering paying for a shout out - not like really seriously or anything just thinking about all possibilities.

So It might be against TOS for youtube. But I was wondering if it was just the other channel who would be at risk

There is a way, i think, that is it totally fine - you have to do some paid endorsement type thing on the video. Just want to know: Is it ok from my end, if they don't do their stuff right or whatever, am I at risk.

Thanks

 

[CraftersMagicYT]

Paying for a shout-out? Shout-outs will get you seen with no garentee of anyone subscribing, why pay for a shout-out? To be honest, it does break Terms of Service I think, I wouldn't do it, and I wouldn't do it even if you were safe and the other guy was not, if anything, just ask friends for shout-outs who are bigger than you (if they haven't already, because eh) don't pay for a shout-out, you will be noticed through time and effort

 

[coliwob]

Paying for a shout-out? Shout-outs will get you seen with no garentee of anyone subscribing, why pay for a shout-out? To be honest, it does break Terms of Service I think, I wouldn't do it, and I wouldn't do it even if you were safe and the other guy was not, if anything, just ask friends for shout-outs who are bigger than you (if they haven't already, because eh) don't pay for a shout-out, you will be noticed through time and effort

I don't think there is anything wrong with paying for exposure myself. Whether it is a shout out or an ad in the local newspaper - I like my content I just want more people to see it is all. I know that there are no guarantees, I also know I am not willing to just sit on my butt doing nothing to move my channel along.

 

[CraftersMagicYT]

I don't think there is anything wrong with paying for exposure myself. Whether it is a shout out or an ad in the local newspaper - I like my content I just want more people to see it is all. I know that there are no guarantees, I also know I am not willing to just sit on my butt doing nothing to move my channel along.

I warn you though, first just make videos, see how that turns up, and then if you grow to say 200-300, maybe then contact a bigger YouTuber with 1-50K subscribers? I don't know, i've never considered paying anyone for exposure but Adsense promotions, not a bad idea though, but it sadly does break TOS...

 

[coliwob]

I warn you though, first just make videos, see how that turns up, and then if you grow to say 200-300, maybe then contact a bigger YouTuber with 1-50K subscribers? I don't know, i've never considered paying anyone for exposure but Adsense promotions, not a bad idea though, but it sadly does break TOS...

your 100% it breaks ToS though? I don't really see the difference between Dyson asking BettysHooverChannel to review their hoover and giving her the hoover as compensation and me asking you to shout-out my channel for a few bucks compensation. Both a third party paying for endorsement.

I just like to be 100% clear on things that could cause a lot of work to go down the drain. And, doubly so when applying legal sounding stuff to real life situations.

 

[Kyle GWG]

I did it once way back when - zero growth. You're better off advertising yourself and gettin' that SEO

 

[coliwob]

I did it once way back when - zero growth. You're better off advertising yourself and gettin' that SEO

I was thinking in addition to.

There are people who shout you out and it makes a difference, say the words. Generally if you pay for it that is what you get but, that's life.

 

[Kyle GWG]

I was thinking in addition to.

There are people who shout you out and it makes a difference, say the words. Generally if you pay for it that is what you get but, that's life.

The lesson I learned that I probably should have realized before hand is if you pay for a shoutout, chances are a thousand other people have done it before you, so you're getting a shoutout to a community that isn't listening.

 

[coliwob]

The lesson I learned that I probably should have realized before hand is if you pay for a shoutout, chances are a thousand other people have done it before you, so you're getting a shoutout to a community that isn't listening.

Excellent Point

Like paying for a retweet and the account only does that - seriously, 900k followers and at best 1 favorite per tweet.

 

[Painter]

Don't pay for a shoutout. Have something of quality to offer the youtuber(s) you want the shoutout from. I recently was asked to create artwork for a gaming channel with almost 100k subs. I did and created a video of the art project. He showed a small clip of my video with a shout out in his video and linked my video in his description. I gained around 140 subs and my video has thousands of views so far from it. Shout outs are great, but they are only effective if the person's viewers/subs really like your content. That's why it's important to get a shoutout from someone who makes similar content. Art and video games go hand in hand. A lot of my videos feature characters from video games.