Disadvantages of being a YouTube Partner

If you haven't read my previous blog, I briefly went over some of the things I found to be advantages when becoming a YouTube Partner. But, just like any other contract agreeing to, comes along disadvantages. In this post I will be going over the ones I feel are most important.

Restrictions on “original content”

YouTube partners have to own the copyright and distributions rights to all and every video and audio content they use, with no exception! They are however only allowed to use third-party content with the permission of that content provider, and that provider will obtain a share of the advertising revenue from the video posted. Any violation of these terms might result in instant termination from the partnership.

Become a YouTube Partner isn't accessible for everyone

As of this instant, YouTube partnerships are only offered to users who live in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany,  Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. If you are a users outside of these countries, you still are allowed to apply for partnerships, but the chances of being accepted are considerably lower.

Rules of YouTube Partnerships

There are plenty of rules that need be followed in order to maintain a YouTube partnership and staying on good terms. These rules most often restrict many facets of what you can and cannot do in relations of your videos, optimization, and page design.

Some of these rules include:

-  You can NOT aim user attention to the advertisements on your page by using arrows and other directional tricks, or by saying things like “click this ad” or “support me by visiting these ads”

-  You can NOT put misleading pictures alongside the advertisements

-  You can NOT reward viewers for clicking ads or performing keyword searches for your own benefit

These are just some of the rules for YouTube partners. If you wish to read more about this topic, visit this link on keeping your page in good-standing with YouTube.

More exposure means a bigger probability of unwelcome visitors

Of course, with bigger visibility come the unavoidable cyber-bullies of the World Wide Web, better known as “Haters”. YouTube partners and YouTube users for that matter, are offered a range of privacy settings for their videos. You can make videos private, available only to those you accept as “friends”, or you can set them to public so that anyone could see them. In the occasion that you make your videos public, you can choose the option of filtering which comments are permitted on a case-by-case basis, or allow all comments to show on your video’s page.

In order to gain views and subscriptions, I think that setting your videos public and open to all comments is your best play. However, it is important that, you don’t allow the admirations go to your head, or the bullying go to your heart when it comes to the comments viewers post. You have to take them with an ounce of salt and just keep doing what you’re doing!

Hopefully this provided you with a greater explanation of the disadvantages that come along when becoming a YouTube Partner. Now what’s left for you to decide is whether you feel that joining YouTube partnerships is in fact what’s right for you. If you have any questions or concerns leave them down below and I would be more than glad to provide answers for them. :)

Sources : 
http://www.youtube.com/yt/partners/program-policies.html