monetization

Dennis Vogel · July 13, 2019, 04:56:59 PM

I just applied for monetization on our YouTube channel.

This lets us run ads on YouTube but more important it encourages YouTube to suggest our videos.

If we are approved the ads should start running in about a month or less.

I pay YouTube $10.00 a month to hide ads on my personal account. But let me know if you find the ads hard to tolerate.

It will be a dance between a meaningful increase in the number of views and people who hate the ads. We'll have to wait a few months to see what wins.

Musterseed · July 13, 2019, 06:42:13 PM

Thank you Dennis. I appreciate all of your hard work and also to all of the moderators.
Thank you all very much for tending to the flock.

Love to all
In Christ , Pamela

This should be interesting 😁

Nelson Boils · July 15, 2019, 05:12:02 AM

Hi,

Ads are irritating. Whilst trying to watch a certain video and this ad pops up at the beginning.
It will also depend on what(product) they are advertising.Be on the look out for that. Wouldn't want any products we don't believe in to be advertised on your YouTube channel.

E.g. They may run an ad of TD Jake's or Joel Oesteen or some other stuff that may probably be contrary to our beliefs.

Let's see how it goes though.

Dennis Vogel · September 28, 2019, 05:47:30 PM

They don't like us:

Hi bible-truths.com,

Thank you for applying to the YouTube Partner Program. To evaluate your application, our team carefully reviewed your channel bible-truths.com. Unfortunately we found that your application does not meet our YouTube Partner Program policies so we cannot approve your channel for monetization at this time.

We have policies in place that we believe support a healthy environment for advertisers, creators, and users, which means sometimes making difficult decisions like this one. Please go to your monetization page to read more about the specific policy our specialists flagged for your channel.

If you adjust the content on your channel, please consider reapplying. You can reapply to the YouTube Partner Program in 30 days.

Wanda · September 28, 2019, 09:17:26 PM

mmm
A healthy environment for advertisers? Maybe any discussions about God makes them sick.☺

Interesting to note, when they decide to demonetize a channel for breach of guidelines, "unhealthy" content, they still continue to run ads.

AwesomeSavior · September 29, 2019, 07:18:22 AM

Wait till the communists at YouTube see the "healthy environment" of The Lake of Fire!

(They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth) [Matthew 13:42, 50].

Rocco · September 29, 2019, 05:28:05 PM

I usually skip ads, but will you get paid if I skip?

Musterseed · September 29, 2019, 06:26:36 PM

If it all shut down tomorrow, we are still connected 😁😁😁😀😃😁😂

In Christ
Pamela 💕

Dave in Tenn · September 30, 2019, 08:05:29 AM

Quote from: Dennis Vogel on September 28, 2019, 05:47:30 PM
They don't like us:

Hi bible-truths.com,

Thank you for applying to the YouTube Partner Program. To evaluate your application, our team carefully reviewed your channel bible-truths.com. Unfortunately we found that your application does not meet our YouTube Partner Program policies so we cannot approve your channel for monetization at this time.

We have policies in place that we believe support a healthy environment for advertisers, creators, and users, which means sometimes making difficult decisions like this one. Please go to your monetization page to read more about the specific policy our specialists flagged for your channel.

If you adjust the content on your channel, please consider reapplying. You can reapply to the YouTube Partner Program in 30 days.

What was the "specific policy" they flagged?

Dennis Vogel · September 30, 2019, 09:01:10 AM

Quote from: Dave in Tenn on September 30, 2019, 08:05:29 AM
Quote from: Dennis Vogel on September 28, 2019, 05:47:30 PM
They don't like us:

Hi bible-truths.com,

Thank you for applying to the YouTube Partner Program. To evaluate your application, our team carefully reviewed your channel bible-truths.com. Unfortunately we found that your application does not meet our YouTube Partner Program policies so we cannot approve your channel for monetization at this time.

We have policies in place that we believe support a healthy environment for advertisers, creators, and users, which means sometimes making difficult decisions like this one. Please go to your monetization page to read more about the specific policy our specialists flagged for your channel.

If you adjust the content on your channel, please consider reapplying. You can reapply to the YouTube Partner Program in 30 days.

What was the "specific policy" they flagged?

Don't know - But from what I've seen others say on YouTube, it's a waste of time asking them.

ralph · October 20, 2019, 01:27:03 PM

Hi Dennis. The fact that youtube denied your application is a good thing.
The Word of God with ads is a recipe for disaster. It will distract the viewer and the ads that play on your channel will more than likely be inappropriate and will lead people away. As a test, I just went to a Christian channel that has their videos optimized. At the beginning of the first video I viewed, there was an advertisement for an online class with the following description:

"How to Tune Into Your Spiritual Energy to Empower Your "Real World" and Live in Duality...Learn FOUR Powerful Yet Simple Energy Techniques To Tap Into Your Spiritual Body So You Can Easily Fine Tune Your Physical World For More Health, Wealth, Love, Inner Peace and Clarity."

As you can see, this is a path you don't want to go down Brother.

If you are looking to reach more people, you need to optimize your videos better for search. Things like adding a good description, tags, title, transcripts, can make a big difference. There are inexpensive apps available that can help with optimization.

With love,

Ralph

Dennis Vogel · October 20, 2019, 03:53:48 PM

It has nothing to do with getting revenue from YouTube Ralph. We don't get enough views to get any kind of a return. But it would have helped with more BT ads.

Thanks for the hint but I've been optimizing web sites for search engines since the '90s, so that's not the problem. As I said, this would have allowed us to run ads on YouTube.

Google: When you enable your channel for monetization, you can turn on ads for your videos. Ads are served through the AdSense auction, Google Ad Manager, and other YouTube-sold sources. Once you turn on monetization, it may take some time for ads to appear. ... Ads will not always appear on videos enabled for monetization.

ralph · October 22, 2019, 09:37:51 PM

Hi Dennis,

I know you weren't doing this to make money bro. That wasn't my point. I was referring to the content of the ads that will play on your channel and gave an example. I have also been doing this for many years which is why I reached out. I wasn't aware you had experience in this area, so please forgive me if I what I said insulted you in any way. I spend a great deal of time on youtube and have seen some rather distasteful ads appear on other channels. I was justing thinking about those folks coming to your channel who are new to the word of God and how those ads would affect them. Much love Brother. I wish you well with the Channel.

Dennis Vogel · October 23, 2019, 06:30:45 AM

I edited my post because people cannot always tell the tone of voice in a post and I thought it may have come across harsh. But I was not insulted Ralph. I hope you understand.

It is good to know there is someone around with experience. Any suggestions are appreciated.

I updated the BT site a while back and made everything HTML 5 compliant and made the pages secure https.

The tags, titles, etc. help but there is a lot of competition and you have to stay on top of it continuously. And I learned Google will also put you close to the front of the line when you also spend money on their ads.

I'm now 76 and it's not as easy as it once was

Thanks

indianabob · October 23, 2019, 06:57:48 AM

Good morning Dennis,

76 is a good number.
One doesn't often think about a writer's maturity when reading responses, but it does come to our attention from time to time.

As much as we appreciate the work that Ray Smith did to aid us in our journey of faith it is also a blessing to have a sponsor such as you are and have been all of these many years. To continue in faith, dealing with all the challenges of the web site and of this forum is a work of love that we sincerely appreciate.

Indiana Bob

Dennis Vogel · October 23, 2019, 04:12:30 PM

FYI, my son Brian suggested we may get kicked off YouTube someday and I should back up all the YouTube videos to our BT server. I just finished that today.

Musterseed · October 24, 2019, 02:21:11 PM

Thank you Dennis . I to would like to offer much appreciation for all of your hard work.

God Bless You

Pamela
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Dennis Vogel · November 28, 2019, 06:44:36 PM

I appealed and YouTube agreed to let me monetize the videos so I monetized a few of the poorer performing videos on YouTube to keep them happy.

But now I am able to add bells and whistles to the videos and advertise on YouTube as well as run our Google Ads. We'll see how it works out?

Wanda · November 30, 2019, 01:18:00 PM

That's great news. I like the revisions you've made on some of the videos too. I think it could help increase views.

Dennis Vogel · December 09, 2019, 08:38:55 AM

I've been doing some experiments with YouTube advertising to find the best YouTube demographics as opposed to the Google Ads we've always used.

I briefly advertised the "Hell does not Exists" video and I'm impressed with the number of people that comment negatively, as we would expect. https://youtu.be/zQQsl5NACzs

Right now the only ad that's running is our revised Tithing video which is doing well overall but has mostly negative comments as expected: https://youtu.be/thGGwSDYxbQ

But we've added 130+ new YouTube subscribers thanks to the ads.

monetization

Nelson Boils