YouTube is Removing Videos - Are You Affected?

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KiddieToysReview said:
Found one:
youtube.com/watch?v=gH_1YOeoDso

Notice the popping colors, the colors of the kids faces, it's like video HDR...
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I know I'm veering off topic here so apologies for that. The first thing that stands out to me is that this "look" is one that's achievable via a strong, soft top light. If you notice in the window reflections and some of the shots where the camera aims up, their ceiling is peppered with pot lights all over the place. In some reflections I also noticed some other big light sources coming from the ceiling. So that's the main thing. If you don't have lots of ceiling lights and want to emulate the clean, bright look, you could try to replicate it by bouncing some really strong light off the ceiling (but make sure you're only hitting the ceiling with that light and make sure you're hitting a large area to keep it soft).

As for enhancements done during editing, they could be increasing the saturation slightly to make those colours pop a bit more. A camera with high dynamic range would certainly help as well but not necessary.

But yeah, TLDR, strong, spread out top light.
 
Kesler's Dad said:
I know I'm veering off topic here so apologies for that. The first thing that stands out to me is that this "look" is one that's achievable via a strong, soft top light. If you notice in the window reflections and some of the shots where the camera aims up, their ceiling is peppered with pot lights all over the place. In some reflections I also noticed some other big light sources coming from the ceiling. So that's the main thing. If you don't have lots of ceiling lights and want to emulate the clean, bright look, you could try to replicate it by bouncing some really strong light off the ceiling (but make sure you're only hitting the ceiling with that light and make sure you're hitting a large area to keep it soft).

As for enhancements done during editing, they could be increasing the saturation slightly to make those colours pop a bit more. A camera with high dynamic range would certainly help as well but not necessary.

But yeah, TLDR, strong, spread out top light.
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Can I hire you to film ours? lol .. Thanks for sharing this! So.. just need a huge light.. or a new home with lots of lighting ;)

Saturation.. that makes since. Will have to try that when I edit our video today.
 
KiddieToysReview said:
I've spent hours searching today, but so far I can't find any specific references to our channel wide demonetization status, nor what "documentation" they are referring to. If I was going to guess, it would be copyright clearances from the owners of copyrighted characters (good luck getting those from Pixar or Disney!!). Anyone have any luck with their Yt reps or tracking anything down online?
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If you enable monetization on any video you don't have commercial usage rights for, monetization may be disabled. The documentation would definitely be characters as you suspected,If you can actually get that documentation and send it Google's way they would probably reenable monetization, otherwise very little can be done.
 
They actually specifically said in that translated chat with YT representatives that they are not gonna do anything for videos with people in costumes (unless the content itself is disturbing, gross, etc.), but of course the risk is on the creators side in case the copyright owners decide to issue a strike on the channel.

What I think it happened with the mass-demonitization is that due to the emergency situation they choose a pre-existing "switch" condition to trigger the demonetization of the entire channel without affecting the Adsense standing - so basically on the channel monetization window you see "more documentation needed etc.", but in reality it is because YT staff triggered manually that condition to happen even if the channel itself weren`t in violation of those specific terms.

Probably if they mass-triggered other conditions that could have affected the Adsense account standing and they didn`t want to punish the creators that much.

Hope you guys can make sense of what I wrote as English is not my first language and this topic is pretty complicated lol
 
Honestly you make a lot of sense, but the best status for this would be the "Monetization on this account has been disabled." status. To my understanding the internal and frontend status' don't have to match, but it probably is for the reason you proposed. On an MCN affiliate channel it says "Monetization on this account has been disabled" and on an MCN managed channel it just will not monetize videos, but says Monetization is enabled.
 
I just got most of my viral videos with the gray icon and the comments disabled. I lost 99% of my revenue due to this. My channel is about bodybuilding.
This is BS.
 
Kesler's Dad said:
I know I'm veering off topic here so apologies for that. The first thing that stands out to me is that this "look" is one that's achievable via a strong, soft top light. If you notice in the window reflections and some of the shots where the camera aims up, their ceiling is peppered with pot lights all over the place. In some reflections I also noticed some other big light sources coming from the ceiling. So that's the main thing. If you don't have lots of ceiling lights and want to emulate the clean, bright look, you could try to replicate it by bouncing some really strong light off the ceiling (but make sure you're only hitting the ceiling with that light and make sure you're hitting a large area to keep it soft).

As for enhancements done during editing, they could be increasing the saturation slightly to make those colours pop a bit more. A camera with high dynamic range would certainly help as well but not necessary.

But yeah, TLDR, strong, spread out top light.
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Thanks - great info. I will try to have the window's natural light light one side, a fill light on the other, and bounce the 1000W LEDs off the ceiling.[DOUBLEPOST=1511729774,1511729524][/DOUBLEPOST]
Scapestrato said:
They actually specifically said in that translated chat with YT representatives that they are not gonna do anything for videos with people in costumes (unless the content itself is disturbing, gross, etc.), but of course the risk is on the creators side in case the copyright owners decide to issue a strike on the channel.

What I think it happened with the mass-demonitization is that due to the emergency situation they choose a pre-existing "switch" condition to trigger the demonetization of the entire channel without affecting the Adsense standing - so basically on the channel monetization window you see "more documentation needed etc.", but in reality it is because YT staff triggered manually that condition to happen even if the channel itself weren`t in violation of those specific terms.

Probably if they mass-triggered other conditions that could have affected the Adsense account standing and they didn`t want to punish the creators that much.

Hope you guys can make sense of what I wrote as English is not my first language and this topic is pretty complicated lol
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Are there any Russian blogs/site where this is discussed? I don't have a Russian keyboard so can't really type search, but can certainly read and keep up to date....
I agree with a master switch concept, that makes sense. It was pre holidays, they identified the channel's they can;t really trust, and flipped it off.
We don't have any copyright strikes, I would assume I would have one if a copyright owner objected to any of the kids dressed in costumes, but since we don't I don't think in our case that's it.
It makes sense, it's just a mass 'take 'em offline to no p**s off advertisers', and keep the channels super safe (or only a little bit naughty) monetized.[DOUBLEPOST=1511729954][/DOUBLEPOST]
ericshift1 said:
Honestly you make a lot of sense, but the best status for this would be the "Monetization on this account has been disabled." status. To my understanding the internal and frontend status' don't have to match, but it probably is for the reason you proposed. On an MCN affiliate channel it says "Monetization on this account has been disabled" and on an MCN managed channel it just will not monetize videos, but says Monetization is enabled.
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They may not have had time nor inclination to make custom message for transgressing channels.
The message to me is vague, as usual and on purpose, it means your monetization is disabled either because you violated the community guidelines or you're using copyrighted characters inappropriately - it's for you to determine yourself what you do wrong - just like "confirmed by manual review" never gives you a reason why they disabled an individual video, you just have to guess.
 
Just reading the YT blog post again and one that really stand out for me is this:

“We want to help creators produce quality content for the YouTube Kids app, so in the coming weeks we will release a comprehensive guide on how creators can make enriching family content for the app”

I hope they can do this soon because I’m at a lost at the moment. I think I can speak for some of the kids channels here. Bottom line, in the meantime, create videos that suitable for the YT Kids app. And they can email this “comprehensive guide” to us directly so we won’t miss it and not make the mistakes that may lead our channels into trouble.
 
Hey there,
I might of missed this somewhere but does anyone know what's going on with the grey dollar signs? Not the ones with the slash. I had about 5 vids got hit with those ( it was monetized ).
 
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