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>I had a young (pre-teen) boy who filed copyright claims on several of my tutorials, and they where taken down instantly and took months to resolve via email.

>I had a young (pre-teen) boy who filed copyright claims on several of my tutorials, and they where taken down instantly and took months to resolve via email. I have a feeling no (big) video hosting site will be immune to this. This is a legal problem not a technology problem. >Beyond that, YouTube is taking a ~50% cut of your ad revenue AND any donation revenue on the site which seems pretty extreme. Yeah, I'm not sure what a 'fair' split is, but hosting and serving video is heavier than apps, and app-store collect 30% of revenue. With more competition that ratio may change in favor of content creators. >They also don't do good when it comes to new content discovery, as the YT search promotes mostly popular content Again, I think this is less YouTube and more the nature of the beast. You're in a typical long-tail market - where you compete with millions of other creators, with low barriers to entry. No search or discovery is going to get it right.

mastermojo 11y ago
Google is notorious for not having 'human" customer service though. Their philosophy of automating everything means flagged videos will get removed, and then the content creator get directed to a community forum to vent. This has happened to me before too.
- infinitesoup 11y ago
  Flagged videos aren't removed automatically; a human reviews them first. It would probably be better if it was more automated, because humans make mistakes and machines don't get tired after a long day of reviewing videos. "YouTube staff review flagged videos 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and videos that violate our Community Guidelines are removed from YouTube. ... Flagged videos are not automatically taken down by the flagging system. If a video doesn't violate our guidelines, no amount of flagging will change that, and the video will stay on the site." Source: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802027?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802027?hl=en
serge2k 11y ago
> >I had a young (pre-teen) boy who filed copyright claims on several of my tutorials, and they where taken down instantly and took months to resolve via email. I have a feeling no (big) video hosting site will be immune to this. This is a legal problem not a technology problem. It's a basic support problem in the case of youtube. They only just started a program to actually give support to content creators.

mastermojo 11y ago

Google is notorious for not having 'human" customer service though. Their philosophy of automating everything means flagged videos will get removed, and then the content creator get directed to a community forum to vent. This has happened to me before too.

infinitesoup 11y ago
Flagged videos aren't removed automatically; a human reviews them first. It would probably be better if it was more automated, because humans make mistakes and machines don't get tired after a long day of reviewing videos. "YouTube staff review flagged videos 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and videos that violate our Community Guidelines are removed from YouTube. ... Flagged videos are not automatically taken down by the flagging system. If a video doesn't violate our guidelines, no amount of flagging will change that, and the video will stay on the site." Source: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802027?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802027?hl=en

serge2k 11y ago

> >I had a young (pre-teen) boy who filed copyright claims on several of my tutorials, and they where taken down instantly and took months to resolve via email. I have a feeling no (big) video hosting site will be immune to this. This is a legal problem not a technology problem. It's a basic support problem in the case of youtube. They only just started a program to actually give support to content creators.