Article 13: Should I turn on YouTube monetization? Your opinion matters
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Long story short: in order to try to keep my channel online after the 22 of January due to EU law called Article 13, I am afraid that I will have to monetize the channel, even if it means losing some money on the deal. According to SocialBlade.com, my channel will only make around 70 Euros per year, and it will cost me over 600 Euro to try to keep the channel alive (not including my time and effort I put in the videos).
What is your opinion on this?
Will you still watch the content if RUclips will put some commercial in front of the videos?
Will it bother you so much, that you think one should rather not turn on monetization, and let them delete the channel?
In the EU they have sent out the new updated terms of services. Due to Article 13 and 11 which are two new additions to the EU copyright law there is a high chance that RUclips might delete small European channels, especially those who are not monetizing their content.
Namely, RUclips is a businesses, and if they are not making money on a channel, this means that the channel presents only a loss of revenue to them. Now with Article 13 in addition to the loss of revenue it will also mean additional risk and liability.
For the first time in my 50 years I fond excelent teacher who clearly explain to me the basic of electronic that was always enteresting to me. I am very sorry to see that you stop publishing materials. Best wishes!
Go ahead mate, some adds wont be a problem for thos e who want to learn!
I for one would much rather see ads than for the channel to be deleted.I am learning a lot from this channel and it would be very sad to see it go.Everything has a price these days and the dreams of free flow of information has all but been killed by greedy copyright laws.The information highway has become full of pot holes and I value anyone who still tries to journey across it.Turn on monetization and at least try to break even.I will keep watching .
Appreciate the comment, and your opinion on the topic. The Internet could have been one of those great opportunities to entertain and educate people almost for free. However, slowly it is being shaped by corporate and political greed to something else...
The content of your channel is of such good quality !
It is also clear (at least to me) that you spend a lot of time in order to find the best ( & easy to understand) real life examples when you want your viewers to grasp some complicated concept that one has to understand (at least superficially) in order for the remainder of your video to make sense to anyone who's been paying attention. I do appreciate your videos quite much, actually enough to take the time and write this comment (must be one of my 3 comments or so on yt in something like 10 years).
I would really not want your channel to disappear / be terminated, it is really one of the top channels on electronics!
I have no doubt that your channel will gain more and more traction, because the work you do is great and people interested in what you are saying / teach are no fools: they like the good content you put up!
So yeah, monetize your channel and hope for the best!
Other than hoping for the best, maybe have a look at patreon or other similar online "tipping" platform? I haven't read all the other 99 comments that were so far been written so I don't know if somebody else made this suggestion, but maybe worth considering (in order to make profit and make sure you make money instead of losing some). I for one would not mind send some monopoly-looking money (read: euros) your way if that's what it takes for you to keep going.
I really hope you find a way to make this channel live and thrive!
Keep going, the content you make is genuinely useful and of very good quality!
Cheers mate!
Really appreciate your time for writing this long comment, and for expressing your support! As you see, so far I have not turned on monetization and also never asked people for their money. Namely, I have created this channel in order to try to educate people by trying to transfer some of my knowledge (as little as I have) to others. However, due to these hap-hazardous changes in the laws I am practically forced to treat now this channel as a "business" which cost me money just because they want to tax Google. I am disgusted by the fact that they can do this to me and to other people who spend their time to produce educational content. However, in the middle of this month I will have to turn on monetization, and considering that I will be losing money, I will have to create a PayPal account, and practically beg people for a bit of money. This whole political thing controlling the Internet got way too dirty, nasty, and spinning out of control...
@@DonkeyLearningIT Not having asked anyone for money is great and all, but I would not be shocked if you made it possible for people to give you money for your work. And I think many people think the same. There is no shame in accepting money you deserve because you put hard work into the especially good videos of your channel. Especially when keeping in mind you'll have to pay that Steuergerater of yours ;)
Wow.!! I was wondering why i am not seeing any add during watching your videos... normally i would have seen 3-5 add in 25 minutes video....
Just finished watching the eleventh video in the repairing SMPS series - I found this video when I looked for video number twelve :-). I noticed in the comments on this video that you decided against monetisation, and since I can still see your channel, it's obviously not been deleted by RUclips. Had you had further correspondence from them? I suspect that if not you're in limbo, which explains why no new videos from you over the past year - always hoping for more! I really enjoyed your videos, and found them an excellent resource to learn from, so wish to offer you my thanks for spending the time and effort to produce and publish them.
Looking at situation there are 3 possible options..
1) do nothing but keep going as usual, copyright witll not affect you coz you are not using any copyrighted music in your videos.. and content shown in your video is only for fair/teaching purpose only....
2) monetization will cost u more than net income.. so in that case you may creat another channel in the name of a friend living in another region (country) where 70€ income is not big deal... and he will send u this amount....
3) start monetization and donate all amount to charitable foundation, in that case you will not need tax consultant (if its applicable in your country)
Talk about stuck between a rock and a hard place! Glad to see your channel is still here, as I just discovered it today and truly appreciate what I've learned so far!
Thanks for the comment. Well, it seems that Google did not yet push the nook button on the channel, though they might become more trigger-happy, we will see. One thing is for sure, next year I have to really monetize it, otherwise it will be pushed down and most likely lost. I understand them though, since they operate as a businness. If they are not making money, why would they provide disk space and bandwidth for free?
It is a great channel. Commercials - i dont care about them. I will watch any commercials just to support your channel. And i think youtube should support channels like yours, with such excellent educational content. Sorry for my english, greetings from Poland.
Thanks for the response. To be honest with you, I really dislike the idea that people are are forced into all kinds of nonsense laws and regulations made by bureaucrats who are paid from my tax money. Also, by switching on monetization one need to walk on eggshells because most likely any negative comment on a product will cause backlash. Some engineers uploading videos to RUclips on FPGA design are being sued by the FPGA company just because the guy mentioned the company name in the video! That is crazy!
on one hand I want to ask you to keep the channel and continue making these awesome contents, on the other I don't want you to be punished financially for your efforts. too bad I live in a prison called Iran and can't legally contribute any amount. well to be honest with the economy being what it is, with all these sanctions and corruptions, a senior, well paid governmental employee (which I wish I was one!) here earns about 300 dollars per month, meaning my support would be worthless anyway!
I can only thank you from the bottom of my heart and wish you good health.
Considering what you describe, I should be more grateful for my own situation. Though, my Iranian colleagues who work here almost never complain, and they seem to be rich.
Get your customer addicted to the drugs and then charge them later on because he’ll die without his fix. And we thought slavery was over. We all like your channel. Make sure you have all your content backed up so you could move it to a different channel if things go wrong. Is it possible to start a second RUclips channel with a.US ? But we’re having a similar problem over here in the United States if you’re not monetized they don’t advertise your channel so you lose views.
OIC, from the bottom of my heart thanks for what you did for all of us, take good care of you self. I'm not in a position to contribute sorry.
Love your channel and don't want to see it go anywhere. Whatever you decide, please be careful. Viel Glück!
I'm willing to sit through anything to get good information.
I would suggest you will find it very hard to make sufficent money from youtube alone (unless you throw a lot of time at it). Dave Jones at EEVBlog has a video where he talks about the money he makes from youtube. He has a reasonably large channel and still needs to do a lot of ancillary activities to make up the total money gap compared to a full time salary.
Patreon is another option, not sure what sort of cut they take, but it might be worth investigating. Hopefully you could get enough to at least cover the costs of the channel.
Thanks for your videos, I find them very informative.
Activate monetization and keep money there and one day withdraw everything when laws change :)
Wonderful. Glad to watch this video. So this is reality that you still didn't monetize your channel?
I have actually asked a Steuerberater (tax accountant) and I was told that dealing with anything online especially when the account is bound to a German speaking country is a total nightmare. In fact, if you watch the videos from Dave from the EEVblog, he explicitly said that he stopped selling his item within the EU, since it was "too much red tape" as he puts it. I do not get it why they make things so hard here in the EU...
@@DonkeyLearningIT very alarming. Here in Pakistan and in Saudi Arabia people are saying westrun countries like EU and US are better as there is a lot of personal freedom. But unfortunately the reality is then total opposite as you said. We are here free to do any online and offline business. Nobody have right to ask us anything. They could only deduct small amount of our earning as tax and that is it. More than that we have freedom.
@@engineerkohat As you see, the other side seems always greener as they say. However, when it comes to business, what you describe to me seems like an entrepreneurs paradise. I am also not wondering why most countries from the Gulf region are more rich than the average EU countries. It is not just due to oil, but also due to low taxation. Btw, do you live in Pakistan, or in SA?
@@DonkeyLearningIT yes friend you are right. I'm from Pakistan and now a days living in Pakistan. But for last couples of years I was in Saudi Arabia for doing job there.
I love your reference to the movie "Rounders"! Excellent reenactment with Euros rather than poker chips! Make it rain! :-)
Sorry to hear that you are getting jerked around by Google and the EU...
"Rounders" was a decent movie, though far from reality. I could not do it with poker chips, since that would be right-away flagged as inappropriate content. Nowadays on social media almost anything is getting flagged as not suitable for children, adults, retirees or even to farm animals to watch.
I live in Las Vegas and enjoy being at the World Series of Poker events. The view here is that the movie could have done the poker scenes better, but that they are better than most movies. We do have a large Russian population here and they are split between well educated professionals and people involved in organized crime... :-D
Anyway, thanks for making your excellent videos. It's hard to believe that Google would flag reenactments, but since you have to deal with them, I guess you know the real story.
@@ats89117 NOOO, *please do not tell me* that you live in Las Vegas. Vegas was one of those places, when I have arrived and got out of the SoutWest airplane I felt like I finally arrived home after a long search. This is no joke, I rarely felt so relaxed and happy in my life like the 5 days I have spent there. I do not like gambling at all, so spent very little time/money at the casinos. But *I love* hot dry air for my lungs, and when the sun is pushing all that desert heat into my bones and joints. I even told my colleagues from the US, that if I would be 10-15 years younger, I would not hesitate a moment to move to Vegas. I am fully aware that the city looks different for people who live there compared to tourists. Still, if you want to have fun or good weather, it is the right place to be. Even mentioned this on my video on the Electron Flow vs Conventional Current flow.
make your own website or forum and keep your topics and all we will follow you there
keep the channel alive there most be solution .. and you really doing great hounest hard job to clear the idea in simplest easy way and thanks for that ..
if it comes to ads in videos .. its ok find a sponser .. it is good for you too ..
if any thing we can help you .. just say i will do my best
Based on your subscriber numbers, I suspect you are underestimating your income potential on this channel. I have no training or expertise in tax law or EU laws. That said, for small sources of income, I am surprised the EU is so prohibitive! Surely there is a way to legally declare small sources of income and pay tax on that. I suspect that many authors don't bother if numbers are very small, and if numbers are significant but small there must be a way to honestly declare income. I would not bother to start a separate bank account but I would honestly record every monthly income deposit. I suggest you also record expenses like video cameras, software and even internet access fees, since all can reasonably be considered to be expenses. Most of us spend more than we earn, and if so one could argue that tax on a failing business venture should be near zero anyway. Another way to deal with this would be to donate all unbalanced income to a legitimate nonprofit enterprise. If you keep a careful record you're not likely to be a vulnerable target for audit even if the tax people take an interest.
You would be surprised how many hoops and loops you need to jump through here! Everything is taxable, even ridiculous amounts of money, and even donations. As for the bank account, if I do not make a separate one, I would need to pay a Steuerberater ever more, since my personal finances between my full time job would be mixed with the secondary income. If you declare all the things you stated above, and your business is losing money, you cannot do it due to a concept called "Liebhaberei im Steuerrecht" (sorry, could not find the English term). Practically you cannot be systematically losing money on a business, otherwise you *must close* that business within the EU.
You can skip the bank account, just use paypal and never transfer from paypal to bank, just buy stuff from ebay with paypal. In other words your youtube income should not be visible. Like - it does not exist. And because it doesn't exist there is nothing to declare or tax. Money that you do not bring in your country should not be taxed. By the way this all is a part of the censoring effort of the NWO to stop people from interfering with their plans.
@@orange11squares Sorry for the late reply, RUclips comment system seems broke again, it was not displaying your comment.
When it comes to money, these tax guys will sniff out the last dime from your back-pocket, where even you did not know that you still had a dime there. As soon as you create any account, you have to pay. Otherwise it is all big trouble, and it is not worth it for 150 Euros per year.
Hmmm, I just read about the EU's Article 13 on RUclips's website. Apparently when this goes into force in the EU, RUclips will not let people from the EU countries upload or download content. The RUclips article didn't mention an exemption for monetized content...
I simply do not know what will happen, in fact, I am almost sure that even the bureaucRATS who made article 11 and 13 do not know how it should be implemented or what it will do. Looks like one of those headless chicken contests from South Park from the episode called "Margaritaville".
Margaritaville was hilarious! :-D
The battle between the EU and Google should be a good one. I will kick back with popcorn to watch it! The US government has no control over the tech giants right now, and probably won't take this battle on. I know the EU has been successful in squeezing billions out of Intel (which I owned stock in) and other large multinational companies, but Google's control of online search (among other things) and Amizon's control of online commerce put them in a different league, so I think the EU will lose this one.
The Chinese have taken a different approach. They have been fighting with Google for a while but recently they came up with a mutually agreeable deal where they will pay Google lots of money and Google will help them keep their people in the dark...
I suggest saving the content and looking into a secondary/backup platform. People are beginning to see YT and the big social media companies for what they are and seeking alternatives. Early adoption could work in your favor in terms of gaining viewership, but one never knows. Should you choose monetization, (I know I have mentioned it before and I'm not trying to kick a dead horse, only provide alternate perspective) Patreon or another similar service or even PayPal donations could help to offset any expenses you may incur and would only be sourced from people who wish to see continued content. For example, I quite happily send $10/mo to Mr. Carlson's Lab on Patreon because that level of subscription allows me to directly ask him questions regarding repairs or projects. I see it as completely worthwhile. The drawback is that Patreon is censoring people just the same as the other big entities. Not a great chapter in the digital age, however I have yet to see any content of yours to be the least bit objectionable, so they would have little reason to take notice.
Also, I see ads all the time when watching people I sub to on here. It would be no different to me seeing them before your content.
@@j5p332 Thanks for taking your time! I agree with you regarding all this media platforms. Instead of letting people do their things, and letting express their opinions (even if I do *not necessarily agree* with those opinion) I think that they should give more freedom to free speech, and let people express their thoughts. Of course, they want to make money on it, and this is exactly what is biting me now. Content which is not 100% OK with their agenda will be deleted/demonetized. Considering that even if I turn on monetization (well, now I am forced to) the ad revenue will be very little. Because of this, I will have to look into other alternatives, like Patreon to offset the amount of money I have to spend on keeping this channel alive.
BTW, when it comes to Mr. Carlson, I like his content as well. He is not trying to be flashy, but giving you part of his knowledge. Sadly, this is being underestimated on all social media platforms. Apparently a large portion of the population prefers people who have no useful things to say or teach, but they look good on camera, put loud music in the background, and pretend to be expert on things they have no idea about, and all they give you is common sense statements like: if you go outside in the rain, you might get wet.
You sir deserve a load of cash. Please monetize it and keep it in the account.
Many thanks for the encouragement. I have asked some tax accountant, and they had more bad news than good news. Therefore, I have decided, that starting from next year I will shift the account to a non-German speaking country since I will move to a new job and a new country. Although the account will stay within the EU, I hope that in other countries they have a bit more understanding for people and they do not necessarily try to suffocate any kind of creativity or people who are trying to put some educational content online.
@@DonkeyLearningIT Glad to to hear that you are making a move. Interesting fact is Germany allowing anyone with "Refugee" stamp (without a proper screening method to identify terrorists and criminals) to enter in to the country and spend millions on them while ripping off money from free educators and scholars. Instead government should finance them to encourage producing more and more good contents.
Yes, shift the account to another country and use RUclips earning for online shopping e. So government can't poke in to it.
I'm very much interested in SMPS and learned a lot from you. A big thank you for your effort, time and will.
@@gotaimabara Sorry, but the first part of your comment is not considered politically correct, since it is a sensitive issue in Germany. It is your opinion, so I will not remove it, but the YT bot might remove it automatically.
Isn’t there a minimum amount that you can earn without having to pay tax as a small entrepreneur?
Is it required that you hire a Steuerberater? Can’t you do it by yourself?
(In The Netherlands you could)
Can I get a link to the new German ToS? The Romanian one doesn't even seem to mention monetization.
I am praying and hoping that you will return soon.
Many thanks! Really appreciate it. There are things in life which are completely out of our control as humans, and we need all the help we can get.
I recommend you to turn the monetization on, because it is not bringing money just to you but also to youtube, and for that reason your videos will be more preferred than videos without monetization.
Wow, I was not even thinking about that! So you mean that the videos might get more views just because this way RUclips is advertising them? That actually makes sense when I think about it...
@@DonkeyLearningIT Be sure of it... Better search ratings, more views and if you get lucky even recommendations to watch some your video.
@@MDFRESCUER OK, that would be definitely a positive change. Also, as I understood, if I turn on monetization, I must upload at least one video a week otherwise the algorithm would be really punishing the channel. I would say that would be also an encouragement for me to sit down and produce content more often.
@@DonkeyLearningITIs it somewhere written like this? That you have to post at least once a week...?
@@MDFRESCUERIt is not written explicitly anywhere. However, looked up videos where they discuss how the algorithm work, and it is clear that you must upload at least once a week, otherwise your channel will be pushed down. For example, I was not posting videos for 8 months, and now my view count is lower than 1 year ago, since the algorithm has placed the channel into some disabled state.
It's hard to believe that your country would require you to hire an expensive accountant for the tiny amount of 70 Euros a year. In the US, you could either just ignore it, or include it as miscellaneous income...
I have to look around and check whether I can do that as well. The issue is, that at least in Germany whenever you are doing something which is producing *any revenue* you already need to make a "Gewerbe", i.e. it would be an LLC.
This reminded me of a story from New York City where they shut down a nine year old girl who was selling lemonade to make money for summer camp because she didn't have a street vendor license which takes years to get and costs thousands of dollars! :-D
@@ats89117 Yeah, *that is a classic* thing! I have seen that John Stossel made a critical joke on the lemonade stand topic, showing how messed up the whole thing is. He even gives the lemonade to people, and quickly takes it back, since he cannot sell lemonade...
Please turn on Monetisation. I am happy to watch short videos to help add some small return for your investment and effort. Your videos are very good and if you continue your channel will grow and hopefully your income can become useful to you. I saw the other comment, and if you can leave the revenue gained in there until it is useful and can be used to cover your costs.
I appreciate very much your lessons and dedication for making this great content for us all to see. Interestingly enough the EU is implementing this new legislation to "be fair" and "recover the losses" of the copyright owners that are mostly, at the best of my knowledge, American companies. Hard to really get it, as it has the power to damage that many EU citizens. Well, my first opinion if you decide not to monetize it, is that you're being far too pessimistic, actually, Article 13 hasn't passed yet, there are some voting to come maybe they come to a better version of it. Also, I doubt your channel would be simply deleted, even if they can't sell ads through it they can get people all around the world into their platform, for instance, I am Brazilian. At last, if you decide to monetize it, again you're being too pessimistic in my opinion, I believe you would get more revenue from your material than you presume as it is high a quality one, also I truly suggest you checking this legislation about a tax specialist requirement, maybe there is an exception based on the amount of money you earn or something based on the digital content, I've seen this a lot on text laws I've studied, hard to believe it is simple-minded like that there in Germany, also I believe this obligation isn't a whole EU thing, I mean, to give you an example I've lived in Portugal for a year and I'd never heard about it... So those are my thoughts. I wish you a good future.
Wow, really appreciate for your time writing that long comment! When it comes to Portugal, the EU want to clash down on them, since they are the only country which offers tex-free living for people retiring within the EU or for foreign companies within the EU. Thus, the Portugal system (and also the weather) would be awesome to have around here. If I understood it right, when it comes to revenue, it is almost irrelevant what content I am producing. All it matters is the number of clicks, so producing more funky daily vlog clickbaity content is the way to go for making money. The situation is that if I monetize the channel, I will try to do it as legally clean as possible, since it is not worth it to get a huge fine for 150 Euros my channel would bring in a year. This will be also an exercise for me to learn the legal hoops and loops if I ever want to open a company or run my own business. For example, I am working as a Linux system administrator, and I was thinking about offering services for other computer centers or companies. If I would want to do this, I would need to go through the same system anyway, so at least once I learn the main things what to take care of.
I personally love your content, so at least I would be missing your videos. Turning on monetization would cause you to have all that costs? At least for for a bank account you could use DKB which is free of charge (currently). You sure you need a tax accountant? I do have one for myself, but only not having to wrestle with this kind of language and to avoid documents like "Mantelbogen Anlage N" (I hate this stuff). Maybe it is a Nebentätigkeit which could be taxfree for this small amount of money. Also you could see this a a kind of a new - more expensive - hobby (which it surely already is) with some expenses. But sadly I do not have a 100% solution. But: ich wünsche Dir ein frohes neues Jahr und einen guten Rutsch :)
Thanks for the info. I am thinking about Diba for an account, might work fine. The paperwork is way above my head, it is scary complicated, and I would say on purpose. I have asked around, and it seems that my best option considering that I never filed so far (it was taken care of by my employer) would force me to get a Steuerberater. Ich wünsche Dir auch ein gutes neues Jahr ;)
no pls we don't want your channel to get deleted
Thanks for the positive feedback! We will see what happens after the 22-nd of January.
Cant you use the loss as a tax deduction? In Australia you could do that.
I agree with monetization, also you could also try the Patreon way. Wouldn't a Revolut, N26 or Monese account suit you better than a bank account? At least you would be saving 16 euros.
Thanks for the info! When it comes to the bank account, the issue is, that with a real bank account it is easier to show for the tax man how much money you had coming in.
@@DonkeyLearningIT N26 is a bank, more specific a direct bank because it doesn't have physical branches and everything is done online.
@@andreikolozsvariNow I see. I will check it out, and see whether that is usable for my purpose.
Dear sir, can I please send you my power supply it is not outputting any power... and I have no idea why. Perhaps you can make a video? Please let me know
Hi Carl, thanks for the nice offer. However, I am located in the EU/Austria, so I am afraid that the shipping costs would be way too large just to send a broken PSU.
👍👍👍
I thank you for all the teaching.
ma JESUS CHRIST the SON of GOD help you your boddy and your soul amen
Many thanks. Although I am agnostic, it would certainly be good to get help from some higher power, especially for our health. I also wish you all the best in the new year!
So glad I found you! Setup a Patreon account give us some bonus content and we'll fund you :)
Thanks for the feedback. Do you eventually have something specific in mind what kind of bonus content would be interesting for people?
@@DonkeyLearningIT Perhaps, you can do real-time repairing on SMPS, stream and upload them here. You can earn selling your repair service as well as revenue from RUclips. Not sure how feasible it is. Just an idea.
@@gotaimabara The idea is actually pretty good! Though, as far as I can tell, most people who are watching Louis Rossman doing real-time repair is not due to repair, but due to all the swearing, fun and drama Louis provides ;) I am not that funny, and also I do not swear much.
@Donkey learning IT ... you are one of the best teacher I've ever seen in my life.. go ahead.. no need to entertain ppl.. just do whatever you are doing... you are perfect the way you teach is also perfect .!!
@@DonkeyLearningIT I believe at least you can help him to filter his SMPS noise on his LEDs. He's almost clueless about it.
Is ok if you monetize your content or not. But please, keep making these great content, I love your SMPS series. Very informative, very educational, original, unique. Don't just look into the near future. Dream Big. Look at GreatScott, he has over 1M Subscribers.
I hope you are ok, doing great and someday can come back and create great content again.
Thank you.
Thanks for the encouragement! GreatScott like in his username, indeed creates great videos. I think my channel will never pass 100.000 subscribers, but that is OK. In fact, if I would have the time and resources to put more content out, I guess that the channel would be roughly at 30-50k subscribers by now. RUclips requires lots of hard systematic work to get good at it, and to make it pay back the effort.
@@DonkeyLearningIT your content is Great and Unique. Have you considered Patreon? use Sponsors like LCSC, or LCS PCB and other electronic related sponsors? or maybe some affiliate links from Amazon or Aliexpress. Those are good revenue resources. Revenue from youtube ads is not good and requires a lot of traffic.
I think youtube subscribers grow exponentially and not linear.
I hope you solve your troubles, wish you good luck health and wealth.
Btw, read "Think and Grow Rich" Napoleon Hill, if you haven't already.
Thanks for you reply.
Ya why not
only one question remains, can you produce enough content to at least break even? Along with possible donations, it may just work out.
I was asking *the same question* from myself, and I was not sure. Thus, I have not monetized the channel. However, now I will start producing new content, and RUclips is changing the terms of services within the EU/Switzerland again, so I have to really monetize now or go under...
Yes!
So you would also agree to monetize the channel?
If yes means yes, then so far that is two green light.
@@DonkeyLearningIT Yes, I agree to monetize the channel.
Love your contents.
I hate ads in videos
But I also hate ads in websites
I hate ads in facebook
I hate ads in apps
Solution: rooted my phone and installed adblockers and modified apks of everything lol
I guess that it pretty much depends to you... Continue with the channel or not?
Well, it's not clear what Google will exactly do. But in all current and previous cases of copyright strikes, RUclips sends a warning before deleting the channel to correct owners behavior, blocks the video, asks to delete the copyrighted part, or monetizes the video giving money to owner of copyrighted thing.
I don't think that they will simply delete the channel, specially yours (there are some tech review channels, gaming channels or other using copyrighted content) but basically yours uses maybe a couple of logos and charts that are worth nothing.
Your channel teaches electronics knowledge at an amateur level (not an institution, organization, school or anything) for free, thats another aspect to check and consider before applying a formal complaint/sue for copyright. RUclips will also consider this before considering deleting a channel.
Don't take it as an insult but you are no one on the internet (pewdepie for example is practically famous and I would call him a RUclips famous star, so he and others would definitely be in the sight of lawyers and copyright laws)
But small channels I think that will continue with their normal copyright infringement approaches. Other thing to take in count is that RUclips is a business so they will try to defend what's making them money and popularity/traffic in the site (as you said) but how many money do you have to make to be into that "RUclips protected" list?
When I first ran one RUclips channel (not this account) I remember I activated the option to monetize videos without actually receiving any money lol. I think that they kept the couple of cents I must have made. Maybe something like that could be done with you just to keep you running the channel normally. And skip getting the money but also having to comply with the requirements
When you said something about "if you cause a problem to us (RUclips), we will delete the channel" you also need to know what do they consider a problem? I think they refer to a big copyright infringement like uploading a movie or getting lots of money "illegaly" (by copyright infringement)
I don't know how you like to play but I would just keep uploading and take the risk, I'm pretty sure nothing will happen and they won't simply delete the channels just because "fuck it"
A personal recommendation would be to always keep a backup of your uploaded videos, no matter what you decide at the end.
I see no problem on you turning on monetization, anyway I don't see any ads ;)
I would just ask you to do one thing: keep uploading content, specially your unique and well explained complicated-topic related videos like the ones of the SMPS
Your category of content doesn't have a huge target audience but I can tell you that you are one of the few doing this if not the only one. And it's really enjoyable and helpful
Monetize the videos. You need someway of offsetting the cost of making the videos.
If you decide for sponsored content, make sure you are 100% transparent so there is not question regarding independence. That is a slippery slope as typical sponsored videos are boring and largely a waste of viewer time.
Thanks for the honest feedback! I was not thinking so far about sponsored content, since I think that the channel is way too small. Even if I would go towards that direction, I think that I would do it totally differently compared to other channels. Namely, I would build something which is interesting both to me and also for the viewers instead of just going through some boring list.
@@DonkeyLearningIT Keep up the great videos! There are only a handful of high-quality channels on RUclips. . .
On your current views (27.5k) my estimate is 50-80$ per month
Turn on.
Thanks for the feedback! If most people are fine with it, I will turn monetization on, even if it means losing some money in the first year.
Do you know about Patreon?
In the future I might make a Patreon account. The big issue with Patreon is, that one have to produce content for those people who support you, which practically means, that one is putting up a pay wall.
@@DonkeyLearningIT you can also have a paypal account for donations for anyone that is willing to invite you a coffe or something. Just trying give you some ideas.
At first I thought do whatever you must to keep your channel up because it is a jewel in a sea of mostly garbage. But that's a lot of money to ante up. It's your decision but I would be sorry to lose you. Remember, there are other, friendlier platforms for your videos.
Isn't there a way to monetize the channel, and let RUclips keep the entire money, for as long as it costs you more than you make, to deal with the fiscal part?
That would be too easy. As I wrote above to one commenter, that would be "Liebhaberei im Steuerrecht", i.e. within the EU (at least in German speaking countries) you cannot keep running a business or activity which is not producing any profit. You would need to make it into an "Ehrenamtliche Tätigkeit", but that is not possible with RUclips, since it is not state-owned but it is a private business.
@@DonkeyLearningIT Well, do you need any formal business entity if you are not making any money (and simply let RUclips have it)? You would be like a volunteer for RUclips.
@@DanHaiducIf RUclips would be owned by the EU, or some EU state, that would work. Considering that it is owned by private parties from the US, this does not work.
@@DonkeyLearningIT What do you mean? You have to be a registered company to do anything? I don't believe so. In Romania, you can do your own accounting as an "authorized physical person" - physical, as in, not "juridical", namely a company.
And for certain things, like renting out an apartment, you don't even need that! You can just declare the income.
You can even trade Bitcoin, and all you have to do is declare the income (NOT PROFITS!) as "other income" - you still don't need a company!
I don't believe you will need to create a formal business in order to post on RUclips. That would be the EU committing suicide. When Spanish news agencies started asking Google News for money for linking and quoting their articles (!), Google News simply pulled out of Spain.
@@DanHaiducHere they try to skin you for your last dime, trust me. In Estern Europe there is still a lot more freedom, and things are not yet over-regulated. This is the number one reasons businesses move to Eastern Europe, and of course the second reason is cheaper labor force.
this monetisation is not good at all.... people like you are forcefully dragged into these matters unnecessarily.....
Yep, you got it right on! Practically the EU is trying to money-grab as usual, and looking into the wrong places, or forcing things in the wrong way. Believe it or not, we *even have a law within the EU, how much the curvature of a cucumber* can be. You might think it is a joke, just google it if you do not believe me.
Donkey Learning IT haha sounds funny
Paying your rent in cash seems fishy, maybe your landlord has some tax declaration issues. Use this as a lever to blackmail him so that he could do your tax accounting.
Voila ! your youtube channel now has a positive balance 🔥
Naah, I am moving out next month (mentioned it in an other video) so this money is for paying for eventual reparations, painting etc, and for the moving company as well. I got lots of stuff to move :(
@@DonkeyLearningIT Good luck on your move then 😉
@@MrFlatoxOoooh, I need *all the luck* I can get, thans! So far I have not even packed most of my things, and I need to get rid of some old equipment as well which is just using up space.
Is it even a question? :p
Of course!
(i simply answer your question, it's morning here and my friends are still sleeping so i can't listen)
Thanks for the response.
When it comes to friends, be glad that you have them! If you want to have good times in life, friends and family are the way to go ;)
monetization + donation system(patreon?) is the way to go, don't hesitate to say "if you like what i do and want to support my time working on it..."
Also blue thumb and subscribe!
I think you could easily reach over 600€ a year by some little effort around thumbs of your vids.
Look at the way others youtuber do :)
I like your power switch supply series
You are probably going to have sponsor(s) if you do that.
See ya and good new year (i don't know if it's where you live!)
@@MrDesillu To me it's like E-begging people for money, and it just does not feel right. This is exactly why I was not even thinking about monetization so far, and *now they are practically forcing me to do it* and hustle people for their cache. I guess I need to get some lectures on being shameless, and indeed open up a Patreon account later. That would mean a pay wall, no good...
No.
You can't say "give me money" as a command :p
and also not begging for it.
So, it's the way to go.
That's just a reminder.
It's just normal that you get back some money for your time invested into it!
No shame!
if you can make more videos, then YES
Well, I will have to make more videos, otherwise I am going down the drain 600 Euros ;)
Patreon
Yeah, finally they have still punched through Artikel 13 in the EU in spite of all protests. I was thinking about Patreon, but there was an uprise against Patreon since it was kicking out people from their platform, and delaying payment to other RUclipsrs. Thus, I am not sure whether one can trust those guys at all, but there is no other alternative as far as I can tell.
@@DonkeyLearningIT happy to hear that, thanks for the sharing of knowledge in your channel, you are doing a really nice job.