YouTube has been in the news lately for de-monetizing any videos they deem as “not advertiser friendly,” meaning no ads are shown on the videos (and thus no ad revenue for the video creators). Independent wrestling fed AI Wrestling posted on twitter today, as did ProWrestlingSheet owner Ryan Satin that this seems to include many pro wrestling videos in general.
As of now, WWE YouTube videos still appear to be displaying ads.
.@YouTube categorized wrestling in the not advertiser friendly/restricted mode category and killed off monetization cc:@beyondwrestling
— aiwrestling .com (@aiwrestling) April 13, 2017
@aiwrestling @YouTube @beyondwrestling Really?!? I noticed the video I posted this week said it only made 14 cents from over 100K views. I was confused.
— Ryan Satin (@ryansatin) April 13, 2017
@beyondwrestling @ryansatin @YouTube well or very very little, our channel went from a few hundred to $11.
— aiwrestling .com (@aiwrestling) April 13, 2017
Just to further illustrate how damaging this is, we would need to sell an extra 250 DVDs every month on SMV to make up the difference. https://t.co/SGncCEZyvn
— Beyond Wrestling (@beyondwrestling) April 13, 2017
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