the pärt'nər-shĭp' Videos

pärt'nər-shĭp' - the act of working together for a common goal.

While 95% of the people understood the video, i was surprised at the responses to the partnership videos. I thought it was an easy business concept to understand. But again for those that didn't get it, here it is again in text form.

Youtube established a partnership program in order to share the proceeds from the hard work individuals do that generates Youtubes income. So much creativity goes into alot of videos - the work of thinking, editing, and acting out the videos is deserving of some reward as well as, as far i am concerned, extra attention. In establishing the partnership program, certain users were selected based on the criteria that Youtube and Google set fourth. I don't know what that is because when you look at the selected candidates, the range of views and subscribers vary greatly.

I purposely didn't appear in the first video because it wasn't about me. it was about the theory of working with partners. in a partnership, defined by US business law, it is the union of two entities to share the cost and profits from the joint business venture. when you agree to the partnership documents, it clearly states in the documents, the establishment of said partnership. I wonder if the people that argued that point actually read thru the terms of the agreement because that was one of the major discussion points of the video.

the second bone of contention was that i said it be hooves me to no end how the profit angle didn't click in. It is in Youtubes best interest to feature a partner video SHOULD THE VIDEO contain feature-able content. It brings in subscribers to the partner, which in turn brings up viewership, which in turn raises revenue. 1+ 1+ 1 = 3 or so i thought.

At this time, i want to stop and make a point of, what seemed to me, an obvious fact. there have been no regular vlogging partners featured since they became partners. think about it. yeah they were all featured before becoming a partner. I think Zack Scott got featured recently. Now compare that to the "paying partners" that are in the 3 out of every 4 "Promoted videos" that appear in the lower right of the Youtube Homepage?

Yeah there are those partners that have massive amounts of subscribers that appear on the Front page under most active videos on the top of Youtubes home page, but that is subscriber based interaction. the only person that breaks that mold is Magibon, the very cute girl who stares at the camera for 30 seconds at a time, but in a future Blog i will get to it, because frankly i am a fan of hers.

Back to the discussion. Vlogging partners and business partners are not on a level playing field. A Partner with 800 subs cannot possibly earn any revenue unless they get help from the mother ship. Even some one the likes of LisaNova, HughsNews, Nalts, nutcheese, Zipster

will hardly grow a subscriber base with out that kind of help. so in the business sense, how does this help the mother ship (youtube) bring in more profits?

By periodically, and remember i used that word, featuring partners, revenue increases. Look, you cant argue that Nalts and LisaNova et all, put out some quality stuff, they do. They deserve, IMHO, to be featured as a reward for that work to help increase the profits on both sides of the partnership. you get raises at work don't you? i look at it as it is a bonus or a raise for a job well done.

Now it really became a circular argument because all of a sudden I was the partner whining that i wasn't being featured. thus the second video. and still people couldn't get over the fact a partner was "whining", i believe the term was used, about not being featured. I put out videos and very rarely if ever do i feel i deserve a feature. However, i never once said i deserved to be featured. it went on and on and on to a point where i felt the discussion was like a swirling, clogged toilet. it had to be plunged and i did so by privatising the videos. hey gang we have to live up to one fact, the channel is themightythor1212, if i feel like privatising a video i created, off it goes!

What did i get out of all this? there are really some desperate people out there with nothing else to do but argue. If you didn't get it, ask a question. i answer all of my comments.

oh and the last thing - blocking. this really boggled my mind? Seriously, who cares if theMightyThor1212 Blocks you. i have just under 1700 subs, i am known to a relatively small group of people. so i blocked you, get over your ego. i don't get paid enough to put up with bullshit. and i am really not a good mascohist.

Why did some people get blocked? frankly, they don't watch my channel enough to leave the comments they made about my videos or understand my points of focus. (in fact alot of people that got blocked came over from some other channel because the video was passed to them by another person) Again, the channel says TheMightyThor1212, if i think a comment is harmful or hurtful, its getting deleted and you will be blocked. I Block with impunity. its not an ego thing on my part, if you cant leave constructive criticism and you are there to badger me, dont bother, you'll get one shot and one shot only. Again, i don't get paid enough to be badgered and i am not into S&M. On my channel, as in my house, if i invite you in, you are NOT ENTITLED to move things around as you see fit and thats largely because i would never do that to you.

I am sure this will whip up a world wind of discussion so go have fun, this is the last i will say on the matter. remember people, there are plenty of channels on youtube, you dont like mine? Click the browser back button and move on. this is a hobby for me, i am not here seeking fame or fortune.

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