A change in YouTube monetization was recently made apparent to content providers, which is causing some commotion. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. http://tytnetwork.com/join

“Yesterday, popular YouTuber Philip DeFranco uploaded a video where he claimed that YouTube was ‘shutting down’ his channel due to guideline violations that included ‘excessive strong language.’ Since then, panic and confusion have struck the YouTube world, with some wondering if this is the start of an excessive clamp down that would put channels with millions of subscribers out of business. YouTube, for their part, says the controversial standards have been in place for a while.

DeFranco’s own woes started when he noticed that a dozen of his videos were flagged by YouTube as not being ‘advertiser friendly,’ meaning that that these videos could no longer accrue revenue, as they had before…”*

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