The Inquisitr: YouTube’s new revenue model: affiliate links?
Pat Hawks
· 1 year ago
What I find interesting is the message this seems to send to users. What am I supposed to think when I upload 9 music videos, which belong to YouTube partners, and they get affiliate links and ads and everything, but the 10th video I upload belongs to a music label that is not a YouTube partner and I get banned?
Randy O
· 1 year ago
Well I was hoping to beat YouTube to the punch on making an announcement. I have been developing this on my site http://NowScene.com. It seemed only logical for YouTube which is now becoming the place for artists to get exposure, to incorporate links for people to purchase MP3s. I show a link to Amazon next to every live music video I display. Works pretty well. But because the video title also contains location information. I inform my customers to click the link then remove any extra text from the artist information for better results. But I will make improvements in the future.
More power to YouTube's success with this. I certainly believe in the concept since I developed this too. More improvements in the future since this the site is still early stage. But I wanted it documented that I did this first before YouTube made their announcement today.
What I find interesting is that they can place affiliate links to purchase music in content, but there's too much content for copyrighted material to be policed for removal, etc?
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What am I supposed to think when I upload 9 music videos, which belong to YouTube partners, and they get affiliate links and ads and everything, but the 10th video I upload belongs to a music label that is not a YouTube partner and I get banned?
More power to YouTube's success with this. I certainly believe in the concept since I developed this too. More improvements in the future since this the site is still early stage. But I wanted it documented that I did this first before YouTube made their announcement today.
-Randy O
Founder http://NowScene.com