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Wonder what the success rate for petitioning youtube as foreign national creators are. Alphabet goes out of the way to be support unfriendly and at the end of t

Wonder what the success rate for petitioning youtube as foreign national creators are. Alphabet goes out of the way to be support unfriendly and at the end of the day it's not even about clearer rules but incentivizing less support to save costs unless demonetization drama cause sufficiently bad PR. Content creators who has accumulated harassers over the years that are report happy are kind of screwed. Maybe extra screwed if they come from places like PRC.

SexyCyborg 5y ago
It's a little strange, I have the top tech review YouTube channel in Mainland China, one of the top five English channel- and yeah just because they are blocked here, but still it's a big market. And with 1.5m followers still I can't get a partner manager. I know guys with 400k who started years after me that have partner managers. I just go through the same forms, escalating past boilerplate responses. No regular point of contact or consistent dialog. Terse copy/paste responses. Refused my Play buttons and verification for years. None of which make any sense to me The risk I take running a YT channel this size, from inside China, as a Chinese national is not small. Why make it so much harder for me rather than establish a dialog?
- seanmcdirmid 5y ago
  Not that I know anything special here, but are there any PRC nationals who can have a relationship with YouTube while in the PRC? I can get foreign YouTubers establishing a relationship with YouTube via their home countries, or Chinese YouTubers abroad establishing relationships in their non-PRC resident countries, but it might be impossible to do it from inside the PRC as a Chinese since there isn’t much cooperation between the Chinese government and Google.
  - SexyCyborg 5y ago
    Others have, but I don't want to call them out on that and suggest preferential treatment, poor form.
    - seanmcdirmid 5y ago
      It might be worth it to ask them about the process they went through if you don't know already. It could be some really trivial blocker that doesn't require much preferential treatment to get through.

SexyCyborg 5y ago

It's a little strange, I have the top tech review YouTube channel in Mainland China, one of the top five English channel- and yeah just because they are blocked here, but still it's a big market. And with 1.5m followers still I can't get a partner manager. I know guys with 400k who started years after me that have partner managers. I just go through the same forms, escalating past boilerplate responses. No regular point of contact or consistent dialog. Terse copy/paste responses. Refused my Play buttons and verification for years. None of which make any sense to me The risk I take running a YT channel this size, from inside China, as a Chinese national is not small. Why make it so much harder for me rather than establish a dialog?

seanmcdirmid 5y ago
Not that I know anything special here, but are there any PRC nationals who can have a relationship with YouTube while in the PRC? I can get foreign YouTubers establishing a relationship with YouTube via their home countries, or Chinese YouTubers abroad establishing relationships in their non-PRC resident countries, but it might be impossible to do it from inside the PRC as a Chinese since there isn’t much cooperation between the Chinese government and Google.
- SexyCyborg 5y ago
  Others have, but I don't want to call them out on that and suggest preferential treatment, poor form.
  - seanmcdirmid 5y ago
    It might be worth it to ask them about the process they went through if you don't know already. It could be some really trivial blocker that doesn't require much preferential treatment to get through.