welcome to tpmvids youtube beat where we
talk about and update you on all the
ridiculous things happening right now
with youtube so before we get into that
stuff i just wanted to let the tpm crew
know that there's only one day left to
enter the 2017 holiday giveaway one more
day for you to enter to have a chance to
win one of three prizes including a set
of four magic bands a 50 chuck e cheese
gift card and a 150 dollar disney gift
card if you haven't entered yet there's
over 20 ways you can enter which will
give you at least 20 entries into the
giveaway so check out the link down
below now the giveaway closes at 11 59
pm pacific standard time on friday
december 22nd and their winners will be
announced on saturday december 23rd at
the end of the brand new disney beat
episode going up that day so best of
luck tpm crew on that giveaway now let's
talk a bit about youtube to update you
guys that have been following along with
what's been happening first off even
with all the issues going on we passed
150 000 subscribers so a huge thank you
for that now since the last update video
nothing has really gotten better
regarding the specific issues and
youtube doesn't seem concerned at all
about their creators if you want to
catch up with everything the other two
videos are linked down below so on
december 12th we received another email
from youtube creative support with a
very similar copy and pasted response
received in a previous message only this
time it implied tpmvids was masquerading
as family content clearly they aren't
using actual human eyes to look into the
channel and are relying heavily on bots
that aren't properly trained we still
have the issue where the affected videos
are completely removed from search and
recommended but we really appreciate the
support you've been showing on the
re-uploads of certain videos we've now
re-edited and re-uploaded three videos
so far and those were the top 10 disney
ride breakdowns the top 10 extinct chuck
e cheese animatronics and the top 5
extinct disney animatronics so if you
haven't seen those videos yet it would
really mean a lot if you can go and
check out those videos tpm crew and
share them wherever you can we also
received a lot of messages from you guys
saying youtube didn't send out
notifications for the last couple of
videos so just check to make sure
youtube didn't turn those off on you
because they've been doing that as well
isn't youtube great now last week
youtube released a new message on their
monetization icon page that said you may
be experiencing an issue where you may
see a grey monetization icon even though
you have monetization turned on in these
cases you should see a yellow icon
indicating that the video has been
identified as not suitable for most
advertisers we're aware of this issue
and are working to resolve it well i
guess that's one step in the right
direction but they aren't working fast
enough when this issue started on
november 27th and now it's almost been a
whole month so some of our videos did
turn from gray to yellow but many of
them are still grey we requested a
manual review on the ones with the
yellow icons since there's no reason why
they should be marked as not suitable in
the first place it's been over 8 days
now and youtube still hasn't reviewed
those videos we've had some of the more
recent uploads like the festival of
fantasy parade video get hit with a
yellow not suitable for advertisers icon
as well which is completely ridiculous
since it's a video about a disney parade
but after a day youtube reviewed and
confirmed the video was in fact okay so
they are reviewing videos but they
haven't looked at the others that have
essentially been delisted those four
videos haven't been bringing in much
viewer traffic since they're essentially
delisted off the site and youtube says
that the videos need to have at least a
thousand views within a seven day period
so this could be the reason why they
still haven't reviewed them but they
also usually review videos from creators
with over 10 000 subscribers no matter
what the views are like
so nothing really makes sense in this
situation here but the main issue isn't
whether the videos are monetized or not
it's how they've disappeared off the
site in search and recommended and how
that hasn't been addressed at all by
youtube and frankly i don't think they
ever will even youtube themselves says
the not suitable for most advertisers
icon does not mean the video is limited
in search and discovery advertiser
preferences are not used to inform how
videos display on youtube so if this is
in fact true youtube then where are the
videos huh how come there's still
completely nowhere to be found on your
site we even contacted creator support
on a brand new ticket just to see if we
can get a different answer about one of
the videos that's monetized but still
isn't appearing in search results and
they responded saying that search
rankings for discoverability are
generated by the algorithm and advised
us to review the creator academy best
practices which is a complete joke
because this isn't about a video ranking
low in search results it's about videos
completely disappearing from searches
you contact creator support you get copy
and pasted responses you contact team
youtube on twitter and they're even more
lost and have no idea with what's going
on so at this point it's really unclear
what's going to be happening with tpm
vids in 2018 since views as a whole on
the channel have hit an all-time low
since february 2017. we're still months
away from getting the channel back to
where it was but as of right now
we aren't having any major issues
monetizing current videos so hopefully
with your support and with everyone
watching and sharing the videos as much
as possible we can get tpmvids back on
its feet in the meantime from now into
2018 we're gonna keep creating new
videos plus re-editing and uploading
some more of the lost videos including
some of the disney bloopers in the weeks
to come and just in case we have started
a facebook page if you want to follow it
you can find the page at facebook.com
tpmvids once again thanks so much for
the support tpm crew it really means a
lot and we'll see you in a brand new
disney beat episode on saturday
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