Dan Robinson
EF5
This is a heads up to chasers who receive income from monetized views on social media and Youtube. When you allow another page or channel, particularly a large one, to repost your video on all of their online social/Youtube accounts, you will kill the viral reach of your original. The lost revenue on your original can easily be many times more (in my experience, 10 times more) than the fee you were paid.
This lost revenue will continue for as long as the video exists on the competing page/account/channel - meaning *forever* if you did not specify a time limit (such as the standard 30-day license for ENG video).
Here is an example from my Youtube analytics of a recent incident I suffered where a large, well-known company disregarded my license terms regarding posting of raw video and posted one of my videos to all of their online social media and Youtube accounts.
(Please note the vertical scale on the above data examples are different.)
This caused an estimated revenue loss of $5,000 to my Youtube channel on a rare type of viral video that I typically only manage to capture once every year or two. This is the same type of revenue loss I see on a regular basis with *stolen videos* which I have been dealing with for 14 years. All of us with monetized accounts know how much harm a competing copy of our videos does. Allowing a company to do the same thing, even if you are paid for it, will have the exact same effect on your channel as stolen copies do!
Any company that offers to buy your video to do this is taking advantage of you, and should not be trusted. The reason they offer it at all is that they will be making the windfall from their monetized accounts, the viewership of which is taken directly from your own.
The weather community unfortunately is full of snakes who won't think twice about doing this to you. Beware.
This lost revenue will continue for as long as the video exists on the competing page/account/channel - meaning *forever* if you did not specify a time limit (such as the standard 30-day license for ENG video).
Here is an example from my Youtube analytics of a recent incident I suffered where a large, well-known company disregarded my license terms regarding posting of raw video and posted one of my videos to all of their online social media and Youtube accounts.
(Please note the vertical scale on the above data examples are different.)
This caused an estimated revenue loss of $5,000 to my Youtube channel on a rare type of viral video that I typically only manage to capture once every year or two. This is the same type of revenue loss I see on a regular basis with *stolen videos* which I have been dealing with for 14 years. All of us with monetized accounts know how much harm a competing copy of our videos does. Allowing a company to do the same thing, even if you are paid for it, will have the exact same effect on your channel as stolen copies do!
Any company that offers to buy your video to do this is taking advantage of you, and should not be trusted. The reason they offer it at all is that they will be making the windfall from their monetized accounts, the viewership of which is taken directly from your own.
The weather community unfortunately is full of snakes who won't think twice about doing this to you. Beware.
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