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I was thinking today and I noticed that

it’s been a while since I made a video

about YouTube much I mean I pretty much

built my entire fanbase of what I have

is considered a fanbase also talking

about YouTube money so what better way

to bring it back then by talking about

partnerships and monetization just

before I say anything if you get into

any legal trouble because of taking

advice off of this video it is not my

fault really you’re just stupid for

basing your financial income off of what

some random teenager on YouTube told you

seriously though if you get into any

legal trouble because of following this

video send me an e-mail to the court

address so I can you know sit in the

court and just laugh at you because

you’re freaking idiot so here’s the

million dollar question how do you get

money off of your videos monetization

plain and simple that is pretty much

every youtubers best friend wait what is

monetization monetization means that you

authorities the presence of

advertisements on your videos and

YouTube charges advertisers for these

and also shares the fees with you

allowing you to make some money from

people viewing your videos so

advertisers pay YouTube YouTube gets the

money puts the ad on your video and then

gives you part of the money the

advertisers pay pretty simple right now

how do you get this monetization feature

you either have to partner with YouTube

or partner with some gaming network if

you’re a gaming channel by the way I

forgot to mention this videos for gaming

channels only everything I say is for

gamers like people who do Call of Duty

videos or whatever type of videos float

your votes so we’ll start off with the

first one can you partner with YouTube

if you do video game content yes

surprisingly you actually can I’m gonna

be reading word for word off of the

YouTube help page this is YouTube’s

official statement regarding video game

as software content it says video game

content may be monetized monitor

monetize sorry about that

if the Associated step-by-step

commentary is strictly tied to the live

action being shown it provides

instructional or educational value so

let’s say your let’s player and you play

this game you upload it to YouTube and

for the most part during the video the

main thing you were talking about the

main subject was the game itself you

were giving commentary and you were

talking about the game itself for the

most part and you upload it to youtube

yes you can partner with YouTube and put

ads on that video because you’re talking

about the game and it strictly says here

if you’re talking about the game when

you play it you can you know make money

off of it another thing you can do when

partnering with YouTube is it says you

can upload video game content if the

creator of the game gives

permission well I can’t just talk to

write games or Mojang or valve or any of

these big companies and just get

permission to use their game or cannot

you see Mojang has actually publicly

given permission to people to be able to

upload videos of their content onto

YouTube I’m reading straight from Mojang

support right here you are allowed to

create videos of mojang games upload or

stream from YouTube or other video game

sites and monetize those videos it’s

free advertising for us and we like

watching you play our games see Mojang

isn’t stupid and they realize that it’s

free advertising and actually healthy

for the sales of their game and this

isn’t public knowledge because Mojang

isn’t the only big video game company

that has done this most people don’t

know that companies like Riot Games or

valve or Mojang all these companies have

actually given out permission for you to

use their video game content on YouTube

on Twitch on other sites this isn’t

public knowledge for most people now

having said all that why would you

partner with the YouTube network they’ll

take 10 20 30 40 even up to 50 percent

of your income when you technically

don’t have to and here’s the biggest

misconception throughout all of youtube

people say I partnered with the YouTube

network because they get the rights from

the maker of the video game which allows

me to monetize my content with the

exception of machinima and maybe one

other YouTube network these networks

have never talked to any of the makers

of the video game contents they have no

insider deals they like there’s so many

games out there there’s no way possible

that a YouTube network could have deals

with all these games either way like

they it’s such a lie like these YouTube

networks do not have deals with the CEOs

of these video game companies and they

do not get explicit rights to monetize

that video games footage now after

heavily bashing YouTube networks like

that I’m gonna say why I prefer to be

partnered with one instead of going solo

with YouTube first off I don’t care

about the money so the YouTube network

can take a part of my money I really

don’t care I’ve never lied so bad in my

life I don’t have an adsense account and

I think you have to be like 18 to make

one which you need that if your partner

directly with YouTube another reason is

for legal help now this really only

applies if your partner what the bigger

networks some of these smaller networks

that only have like 5 K subs and just

are ran by like teenagers they ain’t

gonna do crap for you if you get into

legal trouble but if you’re partnered

with a bigger Network like machinima tgn

yeah a die networks like that are p.m.

they cannot they can help you if you get

in legal trouble a little bit they’ll be

on your

and they can help you get out of stuff

and they have experience with that and

it’ll be a lot better than if you’re

running solo trying to work with YouTube

because YouTube will never apply to you

at least when you’re with the network

you can you know add the CEO on skype

and you know talk with them and he can

help you out

another thing is I’m pretty sure if

you’re partnered with YouTube whatever

you upload a video YouTube has to

approve it for ads or something like

that I’m not 100% sure I’ve always been

within Network I don’t know what it’s

like

just partnering directly with YouTube

but I’m pretty sure if your partner

directly with YouTube you whenever you

upload it you have to wait for YouTube’s

approval and they have to go through and

like their Content ID system whatever

has to check it and say whether or not

you can monetize it and according to a

lot of people that system’s really

messed up and things that you should be

able to monetize sometimes it does not

let you monetize so in conclusion I

would recommend that you partner with a

network yeah they’re gonna take

percentage of your income and they might

actually never end up doing anything for

you but just partner with their network

be on the safe side so now that I’ve

kind of pointed out why I think you

should partner with the network we’re

going to talk about which network you

should choose just whatever you do

please do not join a sub network of a

bigger network in case you don’t know

what a sub network is let’s say I go to

rpm that rpm is a really big YouTube

network I don’t know if they do this and

then I apply to them and start my own

sub network and call it fire so then I

go out with my fire YouTube network and

recruit people to fire so instead of

partner of stead of people partnering

directly with rpm and rpm taking percent

of their money they’re now partnering

with rpm through me so I as a middleman

get like 5% of their money and then rpm

takes their normal cut partnering with a

sub Network does nothing for you it just

is a middleman who goes out and recruits

people and then takes a percentage of

the income they get off their monetized

videos keep in mind that no YouTube

network will help you grow not machinima

not TV and none of these big networks no

sub Network no big network none of these

networks are gonna help you grow on

YouTube they’re all gonna claim that

they’ll help you explode on YouTube and

give you tons of exposure and they won’t

the only way you’ll ever get the

slightest bit of exposure is if they

feature you on their main channel and

there’s a very slim chance that that

will happen having said that these are

the things that I look for when I’m

looking for a YouTube network to apply

for these are the things that I want in

my YouTube network I want the network to

be big that way I know they at least

have experience with legal trouble with

video games they at least know what

they’re talking about I want good

revenue share and I want a really

small contract along javi I want my

contract to be one-year under or no

contract if possible so I’m gonna run

you through the five biggest YouTube

networks or the five main YouTube

networks in my opinion freedom RPM curse

machinima and tgn we’ll start off with

freedom freedom has a 60-40 revenue

split so they keep 40% of your income

you make $1000 they get four hundred of

it that is that is a huge nono to me I

would never partner with freedom just

because of that

but freedom does have a no lock-in

contract you can leave with a 30-day

notice so that is a plus to freedom RPM

is the same as freedom they have a 6040

revenue split that is just absolutely

terrible

but typically freedom and RPM are for

the smaller channels people who are

getting like a thousand views a month

and have less than 500 subscribers that

is when you would partner with these

guys but RPM has a two year contract so

I would not I would never lock myself

into a 60/40 split for two years that is

just horrible if anything just partner

freedom because you can leave within a

30-day notice next up on the list is

curse now curse in my opinion is the

best I’m not actually partnered with

them I wish I was I’m currently in a

contract right now with my current

network I’m gonna get out of it whenever

I can and go apply to curse because

curse has a 90/10 revenue split they

only take 10% of your income and you get

90 percent of it that is extremely good

and to add on top of that they have no

locking contract you can literally leave

whenever you want but I don’t see why

you’d ever want to leave if you’re

getting 90 percent of your income that

is definitely the highest I’ve ever seen

out of any youtube network of course so

curse requires that you get a decent

amount of views every month so that is

one downside if you’re a smaller channel

you can’t yet applied to them you’re

gonna probably apply to freedom and then

you know once you get big enough leave

freedom and then go plot a curse because

you get more money off of them the next

two are machinima and tgn I know nothing

about these two networks I never even

applied to them but machinima supposedly

has a 50/50 split and does require

contract that’s just what I read online

I read a couple reviews on my shadow

most partnership and both reviews said

that it was a 50/50 split and obviously

that’s just terrible I don’t even have

to say anything about it but I doubt

that’s actually true but that’s what I

read online is that it’s a 50/50 split I

don’t know maybe someone who’s actually

partnered with machinima can verify that

in the comments section and then tgn has

a 70/30 split which is not horrible but

that’s still way too much money with

contract and those are the five top

YouTube networks in my opinion

I just ran you through why I wouldn’t

partner with them but obviously you

probably have your own opinions and

there are other things to factor in

besides contract and revenue split but

to me those are the biggest things so to

summarize the entire video technically

you can partner with YouTube and still

monetize your content as long as you’re

doing Let’s Plays and primarily talking

about the video game in your commentary

over the game or you can partner with

the YouTube network technically though

you’re not supposed to monetize stuff

unless it’s you know you’re not supposed

to monetize video game unless you’re

talking about the game but if you’re

partnering with a YouTube network

generally they turn you know a blind eye

they just ignore it because obviously

you’re making money off of it and as

long as you don’t talk negative about a

game so I just don’t use copyrighted

music as long as you’re not uploading

hacks about a game you should never

really get a copyright strike whenever

you upload a game even if you don’t have

permission off their website to use it

cuz not all games do get permission as

long as it’s not like a hack or just you

cursing a bunch and just bashing the

game generally the publishers won’t care

I mean it’s just free advertising and so

many people do it I doubt you’ll ever

get in any legal trouble there’s a 99.9%

chance that you’ll never go to court for

uploading video game content even if you

don’t have permission the worst thing

that’s gonna happen is get a copyright

strike and the best way to avoid that is

like I said just don’t do hack videos

don’t be stupid and most you know video

game companies don’t care so I tried to

lay everything out there and like I said

some of this might not be true please if

anything I said in this video was false

correct me in the comments section I’ll

throw an annotation up on the video and

that’s pretty much everything hope you

enjoyed it and let me know what you

think