Joy of Being A Youtube Partner
Posted on April 10, 2008
Found Inside the Life Box-> Computer and Internet, Experiences |
I have not fully versed with the term youtube partner, but I will surely buy a cap if that’s available somewhere which reads “I am a youtube partner” and I will wear it when I am filming. Then, perhaps when I am making a crazy video, people won’t call me Lunatic anymore.
The idea that you can think, visualize and show to your audience isn’t easy at times. Say you wanna create a film where you the director himself or herself has to act like a 5 year old baby, and the scene requires you to cry like a baby with snot coming out of your nose. What would the audience think of you, or even your viewers or subscribers. In fact, Is it bad to think from the viewer’s prospective ? Recently, I was shooting a film (not much detail here for you because you won’t enjoy the film later) and I was called lunatic, looser and all shorts of name calling. I handed them my some sort of visiting card made out of a used order-paper which I use in the Restaurant where I am a waiter. And I get about 1 to 2 hours a day for shooting films, that’s all. And On weekends my hungry websites call for updates; fresh contents etc so I can’t do much with filming
To be honest with you, there is no joy for being a partner with youtube at all. Yeah, you get two features (auto play). Which I believe should be given to all users. If you think youtube is a TV, then when you are on a channel, why do you have to make a user play a video, play it like a TV channel
Youtube, please give that auto feature to all the users, because a channel should play when you click on it, right ?
The other thing you get when you become partner is branding options.
Now why can’t they give this to others, I have no clue. It’s just a few options like the banner on top of your channel, a small image showing your channel icon something extra that appears where you see links like “Add as a Friends”, and a short banner that appears on the right-hand side of the page where your video is being played. All those should be given to regular users, let them have fun with it, what’s the point of just giving them to partners.
I believe the more you separate users from partners, the more users you are going to lose. They will be going somewhere else.
Ok, you might just have those top directors and partners and some corporate videos and nothing else. IF YOU GIVE ONE THING TO ONE USER AND ONE THING TO ANOTHER, you are hurting people out there. If the trick is to ask for all users to apply for partnership, then you should send them emails.
Now for you and me,
I enjoy youtube to have FUN, that’s all. They say, once you become a partner you can earn money. I doubt that I will be making a living out of it. And for those who are, they must have given up their real social life and locked up in a STUDIO room, may be I am wrong or may be they are able to balance both; their life and youtubeholic life.
If FUN is your goal, stick with youtube. Don’t quit here. It’s still the best video sharing site around today. It also continues to add more features for better user experience. Adding to that, Look, Now, Commentary goes down (that should kill time for spammers to move down, lol!). They now added links to socializing sites so you can share your videos easily with other sites. That is a very good move. But they continue to add features, don’t they ? It makes you wonder will all these extra features make youtube a slow site!
Bored with so much? Watch some films then, please move on…
Subscribe to this great personality who talks about youtube, freedom and has helped many users who were once banned by youtube, or may be I haven’t yet known him much. But he is among the highly respected youtuber.
One More video here…
A few advice for users who have just become a youtube partner
- Don’t try to monetize a video that violates the terms of conditions, for example, copyrighted music, recorded TV shows, music videos and so on. Why? You know the answer. You don’t want your good video gone.
- Just becoming a partner doesn’t mean you are better than the other users. So use that auto feature to promote other’s work unless your videos still doesn’t have what you believe the views they should be getting. Say, you uploaded a video a year ago, you wanted about a thousand views by now, then feature it on your channel. Be a promoter, a leader, help others to grow by watching their work, commenting and also featuring their work when you can or are willing. I often like to call videos as Works. In fact, many of us spend a lot of time making our videos, don’t we work? Videos = Our Works.
- Respect. Respect. Respect. It’s not enough to write it, but that’s the rule. Respect to be respected back. Don’t write comments boosting yourself in commentary; example; Hi all, I just became a youtube partner.
- We all started with nothing, our first videos were craps. Don’t delete them Please. Keep them because they are like your photo-album. Would you tear all your old photos ? I know a lot of people delete their old videos onces they become partners. I have seen this happening. What the heck, show your honesty. After being a partner, don’t walk an inch taller and act like you are some kind of a BOSS of youtube. You know You aren’t. The day when all youtubers can earn money from youtube isn’t far. There might be a day in future where the partners world be renamed as “USERS”, you just never know.
- Setup a website if required so you can present additional materials to those who might be interested in your work, such as photos, articles, tips etc or even share your experience in words instead of videos that you might have made. Don’t ever think that there are always youtubers but not readers. Having a website isn’t necessary but it does help for the users who care about your work. Your website can give additional features that youtube doesn’t give. For example, you could present audio of a song you created for a film, but you would like that audio to be downloaded by your users. Now you can do that on your website. Another example? Say you have photos of places where you did the filming, you can share those photos on the website. If you don’t have the budget to create your own website, you could use blogging sites like blogger.com, wordpress.com, yahoo 360, etc.
- Yeah! Take a vacation or something like that once in a while. This applies to all sorts of users. Too much youtubing can damage your social life. Keep a balance. Here is what I thought, you might find this article interesting. Here it is Blogging and Youtubing Makes Sam Alone - a none fiction story, if it matches with someone’s real life, please consider it as a pure coincidence.
- You might celebrate one day, but, you will stop celebrating soon. Because you will feel like youtube has now made you to work harder. This feeling can come naturally. You will be trying to make better videos, unique videos with creativity in mind, something that perhaps you never did or did it a little. Upon becoming a partner, you are completely thinking about next video, next film all the time. Be prepared to listen to others. LOL!! “Sam, what the bloody is wrong with you, I have been talking to you for the 3rd time. You ignore me one more time, our friendship is over!” or another friend saying, “Oh my Lord, what the heck happen to you, you used to smile, where the bloody hell are you? are you here or in another world? Sam? Sam? If you think too much, I might need to take you to a mental hospital okay? LOL!!.
- You will ask yourself, I don’t have a lot of subscribers? But those who have bunches get so many views even on a short or shitty videos? How do I get subscribers? There is an article here that talks about it. But subscribers are two types: 1st are those just subscribe and never watch your work, 2nd are those who will subscribe asking you to subscribe back, and 3rd are those who are interested in your work and wants to keep up with your new videos. Never-ever look at the subscribers number, just do what you used to do. Watch videos and if possible try to hang out with big guys (big = top subscribers). Do collaboration type of videos with them, if you can. For samples, see Mr. Safety’s channel, Renetto’s channel and others. Just search at youtube.com smpfilms or renetto. You can easily find their channels. I haven’t known others, if you know others, just comment for the benefit of readers here.
Stay cool. Don’t expect the money to pour down from sky like tomorrow.
I wrote this post right after I came back from a walk in the woods. I was smelling the air, listening to birds singing, feeling the cool breeze on my cheeks. It was awesome, outside of youtube. I was having fun there too. Then all of a sudden, a man appeared right in front of my nose and said, “You Dork, watch where you are going.”
What the heck was I doing there? “Thinking and Thinking and Thinking like a complete lunatic ?” — Yeah, that’s it…………….. There you go; a joy of being a youtube partner.
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