So what IS a YouTube partner now?

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All these people with a low number of subscribers and views are posting "YouTube partnership earned celebration!" type videos. When I started vlogging almost two years ago, a partner was considered someone who got tons of upgrades to their account and earned money from views and all this stuff. They were always people with tons of subs and views, and many of them were living entirely off their income from YouTube.

It seems these days, anyone can be a "YouTube partner." My question is, I'm allowed to upload custom thumbnails and I earn money from ads on my videos. Does this make me a "YouTube partner"?
 
According to YouTube yes, you are a partner as soon as you monetise but you dont have all the branding options like the banner. For the banner etc you need to be partnered with a network or through YouTube directly, those are what I consider YouTube partners myself, I am struggling to adjust to the concept that someone is called a partner when they just monetise, I understand they have changed what "partner" means on YouTube but I feel crazy saying someone is a partner when they are now monetising their videos, it just sounds nuts as thats what those who worked very hard to achieve had got for themselves.

On YTtalk you must have either a partnership with a network with all the branding features unlocked or directly through YouTube with them all unlocked to get our partners badge. Many are calling the ones with all the features unlocked "full partners" or "proper partners" and I believe rightfully so.

That is another thing that concerns me, with them changing the meaning of the word and status, I kinda expect to see people doing celebratory videos when they are just able to monetise and looking rather silly.
 
it's a sad day for youtube, i remember when i started, becoming a partner was something you would really have to work towards, you would have to be great at making videos and have a large following. nowadays anyone with a few hundred subscribers can become partnered with a network making partnership kind of redundant. my big question is, at what point can you start earning a reasonable income off of youtube at? it's a far away dream, but the day that i could make youtube videos as a job would be an epic day indeed :P no hopes for it nowadays with so many people making videos though haha
 
Notice I don't have a partner badge anymore, I have a "presenter" badge. Partner means so little to me now I actually am more proud of being a presenter than being a partner, so I asked to change the badge. "Partner" has become meaningless to me. I celebrated and was giddy for days when I first got partnered months ago, I also was on pins and needles when I was waiting for youtube to approve the partnership, I swear I'd been partnered like 2 weeks, and then hear everyone's getting thumbnails... can you imagine how that felt? It was like "wait... so what exactly did I achieve again?" Youtube can can freaking bite me for that one, of all the dumb things they've done, giving everyone thumbnails was the dumbest.
 
Well, Michael explained the difference so I won't reiterate that.

But, I love networks like Fullscreen that are giving smaller channels a chance. Not because of their number of subscribers (because anyone can manipulate that stat realistically), but usually because of the quality of their content. Many YouTuber's put their hearts and souls into their work, but may not see that great of a return in terms of viewers and I definitely feel as if they are worthy of a chance at partnership, which is what certain networks are doing.

Being a partner is so much more to me than custom thumbnails and monetizable videos. So, I was never upset or bothered when regular users got those features. I have no idea who would! It's being recognized by a higher source, that the work that you're putting is somehow paying off. Many networks offer so much more support than what YouTube is giving (which is laughable), and that's also a big plus.

So, for those reasons alone, I will always proudly wear my partner badge.
 
Michael said:
On YTtalk you must have either a partnership with a network with all the branding features unlocked or directly through YouTube with them all unlocked to get our partners badge. Many are calling the ones with all the features unlocked "full partners" or "proper partners" and I believe rightfully so.
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That makes sense.

So this may be a dumb question (since everyone seems to know except me, lol), but what is a "network"? How do you become part of one?
 
AnnaLovesVlogging said:
That makes sense.

So this may be a dumb question (since everyone seems to know except me, lol), but what is a "network"? How do you become part of one?
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A network is basically a company which partners YouTubers, they take a cut of your monthly revenue since you are part of their network, they all take different cuts, some 50/50, 70/30. To join a network you must meet their requirements which is usually a certain views per day or per month amount and a few other things. We have a list of some of them stickied here:

http://yttalk.com/threads/partner-networks-on-youtube.5614/

Fullscreen is a very popular network amongst members here, their requirements are 1k views per day across all of your videos but they do partner people with less now and then with exceptional content.

Oh and to become a part of one you just have to apply and wait to hear back from them, they all have application forms on their sites or some way of applying :D
 
Stef said:
Well, Michael explained the difference so I won't reiterate that.

But, I love networks like Fullscreen that are giving smaller channels a chance. Not because of their number of subscribers (because anyone can manipulate that stat realistically), but usually because of the quality of their content. Many YouTuber's put their hearts and souls into their work, but may not see that great of a return in terms of viewers and I definitely feel as if they are worthy of a chance at partnership, which is what certain networks are doing.

Being a partner is so much more to me than custom thumbnails and monetizable videos. So, I was never upset or bothered when regular users got those features. I have no idea who would! It's being recognized by a higher source, that the work that you're putting is somehow paying off. Many networks offer so much more support than what YouTube is giving (which is laughable), and that's also a big plus.

So, for those reasons alone, I will always proudly wear my partner badge.
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Perhaps if I had received this "help" you speak of, I'd have been proud to be a partner. Both fullscreen and now rightster seem to be giving me nothing but what everyone else now has. Well actually I just remembered one benefit I completely forgot about. I couldn't monetize my songs before I was a partner, and would probably still be going through that mess if I wasn't... I tooootally forgot I ever even had issues monetizing my songs... ok I can't deny, I'd cry if I lost that benefit from my partnership. But outside of that... what am I supposed to be psyched about, the banner? And you say you've been "recognized" well sure, you felt "recognized" when you actually were "separate", but now the difference is so hard I don't feel "recognized", I just feel like "another partner" cause there's soooo soooo many, and many of us are still very small and going at the same rate we were before partnership. I got MORE views before I was a partner. That's cause youtube wasn't glitching then, but yeah, something about them giving everyone the thumbs, the fact that my stats went up none, the fact that both my networks seem hard to reach and like they aren't doing much for my channel at all, yeah, maybe I'm cynical, but I'm just not proud to be a partner at this time. Maybe I'll get over that in time.
 
symphonious7 said:
Perhaps if I had received this "help" you speak of, I'd have been proud to be a partner. Both fullscreen and now rightster seem to be giving me nothing but what everyone else now has.
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Oh. In my case, if I ever had any issues monetizing a video or any other problem that's not completely out of their hands, Fullscreen has so far always been there to help out in a prompt manner. Whereas before partnership I would have to wait weeks or even months for a simple response from YouTube. You know the feeling! With a network I get the feeling that I have a helping hand there to...help me.

There's plenty of other features that come with partnership besides thumbnails and banners. With Fullscreen, I have access to a gigantic library of free royalty free music/sound effects that would usually cost around $30 a track. Or the fact that recently, they're rolling out programs for partners to make more money from their videos. And a bunch of other just generally helpful stuff. YouTube can't and won't roll out that sort of help to every user. Many 'big' YouTubers are switching over to networks for this reason. In the end, it's a good feeling that a company went to my videos and thought 'Hey! You're pretty good...we would like to work with you". I think for me that's the biggest difference between a "partner" and a partner.
 
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