Hi, I've got a proposal for YouTube,
slash Google,
slash Alphabet - whatever you want to call yourself?
So this is not just a rant for a new feature on YouTube -
it can make YouTube money! So, let's get to it. One of the most annoying
features of YouTube from a content creators perspective, is that once we upload a video,
that's it. It's over. We can't pull that video down and
re-upload to fix something or to do anything like that without losing all of the views, all of the
ratings, thumbs up, thumbs down, all the comments and also the unique URL
which we may have already embedded somewhere else or may have already been shared.
So what I'm proposing is that we
institute a re-upload feature. Now -
it's not a new idea, but
this would be valuable because for technical channels like mine - who, we're always getting things wrong in videos.
You know little things wrong. Major things wrong very occasionally
I have to pull down a video because something is so grossly wrong that - ya know - look I just can't stand it being there.
So I've got to re-upload it
I lose all that stuff as I mentioned and it's not a good thing. Now this doesn't have to be for
everyone this could only be for say the
Silver Award like a hundred thousand subscribers or above channels for example of which there are over
40,000 channels that have hit a hundred thousand have that YouTube Silver Award, I mentioned that in a previous video which I'll link in
down below. Anyway -
So there's a lot of channels that this could help you don't have to give it to anyone,
you can only give it to the trusted channels and because - I don't know - the feature may be able to be abused
somehow, but one of the major things that this can also do is that I get offers all the time as a
content creator on YouTube of:
"can we pay for a sponsored spot in your video?"
"Can we put in, buy a pre-roll ad in your video?"
And we have to bake-- if they don't buy it through Adsense the traditional channel,
then I have to bake this. I've never done it,
I turn down all these offers as a matter of course because I don't want my channel
polluted - well long term - with these ads.
So if I take the money - which can by the way be several thousand dollars, up to five thousand dollars for one video -
in this engineering space for example for a pre-roll ad that I bake in--
(by bake-in I mean edit into my video, so it's there permanently),
It's there, forever! So in Ten Years time when people watch that video,
here's useless old ad that's not even relevant anymore, and I don't want that. So that's why I turn them down.
Now if I, as a content producer had the ability to
be able to
upload a video with an embedded ad in it
for say the first week or whatever - and then I could upload a new one that
removes that ad if I had that feature to re-upload that video without losing my views
without using losing the comments in there and the thumbs and and the URL and everything else and that would be fantastic.
I would be able to-
offer-
potentially - not that I would but, ya know - the potential could be there for myself and other content producers to be able to sell
sponsored spots in our-- temporary sponsored spots in our video. Now I don't expect google to do this for free. I would happily pay-
money-
for this upload feature. Say I wanted to fix a technical problem in my video. I might upload my video 'Oh doh!'
You know I got something wrong everyone's pointing it out and want to re-upload it, but don't want to lose all that stuff,
I'd happily pay ten/twenty bucks for the ability to
re-upload that video. Like a one-off each time I re-upload, pay a fee. If I was-- Even if you
charged a hundred or two hundred dollars for me to re-upload the video, if I was getting a couple of thousand dollars
from a sponsor to put and add in - a pre roll ad in a video temporarily - then I'd happily pay
YouTube/Google/Alphabet a couple hundred bucks for the ability to then re-upload
that once the week is out or whatever, or day, or however long I want to leave that pre-roll ad there.
Fantastic! So Google can get a large cut of that for that ability. Now I can understand there might be reasons
why they don't want to do this for example: You know you might be able to sneakily include copyright content, well-
re-check the video put it through the copyright algorithm and everything, matching and all that sort of stuff and your new silly algorithm
or whatever it is for determining
what the - ya know - whether or not it's advertiser friendly, and ya know, and we can disable, for example-
ya know once again only for trusted channels. Now I think you might actually already have this capability
built into YouTube because there is the feature where you can upload a
three-second pre-roll ad at the start of every video across all of your channels. Can't be over two or three seconds
I think it is. You can remove that or change that later on, so anyway it might already be there.
I don't think it's probably a huge deal to do this- I don't think it's a technical reason YouTube aren't allowing
re-uploads, there's some other aspect to it. But if you're concerned; limit it to trusted channels, take away
the privilege if we abuse it etc. and charge for the service.
So there ya go! And that can help out channels get direct,
sponsors make some money, Google makes some money - everyone's happy. Technical channels can re-fix their content. Anyway-
I think it's a winning idea, so if-- I know that I have viewers that work for Google-
so if you do-
please spread this around, pass it up
the Chain, we'll see how far it can get. Give it a big like,
spread it everywhere if you think this is a good idea. And as always, comment down below. So that's it. That's my idea.
Hope they do it, but-
not holding my breath.
Catch ya next time.