Youtube Partner Program

Mark · 11-20-2011, 10:59 AM

Not just roughly, but more like exactly.

Partners have checkboxes that need to be checked in case there are paid product placements in their videos. This is done so that the advertisements Google places to those videos won't be ads of similar or other companies that don't wish to advertise to other advertisements/commercials, for obvious reasons.

Another thing is if a partner makes videos purely on one and the same product or site (a teaser, a trailer, a performance video, etc). Again, without checking the checkbox this is prohibited.

Third there has been a tiny bug in the system (YouTube corrected this but since D&D already broke the rules, this couldn't be corrected in their case.) The bug contained auto-flagging partner videos with dead links in their descriptions. The dananddave.com site was getting revamped at the time they were suspended so this may as well have played part in it.

Since most if not all of D&D's videos were ads and they apparently never checked those boxes, their account was suspended pretty much right away when YouTube found out about this.. for so called "spam, scams or commercially deceptive content".

11-20-2011, 10:59 AM	#11
Mark Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 935	Not just roughly, but more like exactly. Partners have checkboxes that need to be checked in case there are paid product placements in their videos. This is done so that the advertisements Google places to those videos won't be ads of similar or other companies that don't wish to advertise to other advertisements/commercials, for obvious reasons. Another thing is if a partner makes videos purely on one and the same product or site (a teaser, a trailer, a performance video, etc). Again, without checking the checkbox this is prohibited. Third there has been a tiny bug in the system (YouTube corrected this but since D&D already broke the rules, this couldn't be corrected in their case.) The bug contained auto-flagging partner videos with dead links in their descriptions. The dananddave.com site was getting revamped at the time they were suspended so this may as well have played part in it. Since most if not all of D&D's videos were ads and they apparently never checked those boxes, their account was suspended pretty much right away when YouTube found out about this.. for so called "spam, scams or commercially deceptive content".