Looks like it's time for a quick (if premature) New Years announcement:
I've been a little out of the loop with YouTube's policies, so it looks like as of last month, they changed the way that monetization works. I can no longer disable ads such as skippable, unskippable, or pre and post-rolls (but I can still manually choose where my midrolls appear, thankfully). They have also decided to keep all ad settings for old videos as I left them (at least for now), so this hasn't even affected my channel yet. This probably isn't news to you guys who keep up with YouTube's shenanigans, but it was to me.
This is important, because as of 2024 I was going to start taking monetization on the channel more seriously. I decided back in 2021 that I didn't want to treat it as a job because my actual full-time job was so taxing. Well, for a little transparency, I took a really big pay cut to get out of that job. I'm not struggling, but I'm feeling it, so I'm starting to look at the channel as something I should take more seriously (not explicitly for the extra income, but that doesn't hurt). I know I can do more for the channel, and I'd like to at least try.
Well, it looks like YouTube isn't giving me a say: the videos will be monetized more heavily, or they won't be monetized at all. It's no longer a choice, it's just a coincidence that I began thinking about this a month after this policy was put into place.
At this time, I will not be relaunching the Patreon. At the very least, that won't be until after the Ragnarok video releases, but I'd still like to wait until I've hit the 5,000 or 10,000 subscriber milestones to feel like I've earned it. I have to at least prove to myself that I can keep my end of the deal before I ask anybody for money.
So here's what this means for you: I am going to keep an iron grip on my mid-roll ads (I like to space them out enough to not be annoying, and only place them during breaks between sections). If you get swamped with ads at the start of the video, then I'm sorry. I literally have 0 control over that.
If you took the time to read all of this, then thank you. I really hope I'm able to improve my upload schedule to at least 3 or 4 videos per year (quarterly uploads would be great), but there are a lot of variables between my standards of quality, and my current job often having mandatory overtime during those same periods. Regardless, I'll try to make it a good year for the channel.
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Looks like it's time for a quick (if premature) New Years announcement:
I've been a little out of the loop with YouTube's policies, so it looks like as of last month, they changed the way that monetization works. I can no longer disable ads such as skippable, unskippable, or pre and post-rolls (but I can still manually choose where my midrolls appear, thankfully). They have also decided to keep all ad settings for old videos as I left them (at least for now), so this hasn't even affected my channel yet. This probably isn't news to you guys who keep up with YouTube's shenanigans, but it was to me.
This is important, because as of 2024 I was going to start taking monetization on the channel more seriously. I decided back in 2021 that I didn't want to treat it as a job because my actual full-time job was so taxing. Well, for a little transparency, I took a really big pay cut to get out of that job. I'm not struggling, but I'm feeling it, so I'm starting to look at the channel as something I should take more seriously (not explicitly for the extra income, but that doesn't hurt). I know I can do more for the channel, and I'd like to at least try.
Well, it looks like YouTube isn't giving me a say: the videos will be monetized more heavily, or they won't be monetized at all. It's no longer a choice, it's just a coincidence that I began thinking about this a month after this policy was put into place.
At this time, I will not be relaunching the Patreon. At the very least, that won't be until after the Ragnarok video releases, but I'd still like to wait until I've hit the 5,000 or 10,000 subscriber milestones to feel like I've earned it. I have to at least prove to myself that I can keep my end of the deal before I ask anybody for money.
So here's what this means for you: I am going to keep an iron grip on my mid-roll ads (I like to space them out enough to not be annoying, and only place them during breaks between sections). If you get swamped with ads at the start of the video, then I'm sorry. I literally have 0 control over that.
If you took the time to read all of this, then thank you. I really hope I'm able to improve my upload schedule to at least 3 or 4 videos per year (quarterly uploads would be great), but there are a lot of variables between my standards of quality, and my current job often having mandatory overtime during those same periods. Regardless, I'll try to make it a good year for the channel.
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