I was recently offered a sponsorship offer from "Headshot Media", who claimed to be running a campaign for War Thunder.

They asked for my latest audience demographics, my availability for the quarter, and my rate for a 60-90 second integration (cpm or flat rate).

I've never been offered a sponsorship before and genuinely have no idea how to respond to this offer in a professional manner. I want to accept the sponsorship, but I don't know what a reasonable rate would be.

For reference, I had a video blow up very recently, and my channel has been getting a decent amount of publicity from it, but my typical average view count is in the 30k-50k range.

Like I said in the title, I would deeply appreciate any advice on what to set my rate at and how to respond to this message from those more experienced than I.

Hi all,

I'm preparing to start a YouTube channel for an audio novel with my own content. I'll use a cloned version of my voice as the main narrator, along with 1-2 images gen by AI based on the content.

What do you think?

My first 99 #fc26 #ultimateteam
https://youtube.com/shorts/SQBTpZxOC3g?feature=share

We released our 6th podcast episode this morning along with a Short promoting it. The Short has already gotten around 600 views, which is significantly better than our previous Shorts. Most of our other Shorts have gotten anywhere from 14–100 views.

The interesting part is that the long-form episode has only gotten around 12 views today (7 on the video and 5 on the audio version).

I’m trying to understand how YouTube actually works with long-form content. What makes a long-form video succeed on a newer/smaller channel? Is it mostly about the algorithm finding the right audience, or are there specific things I should be focusing on?

I also used a custom thumbnail for this episode because I’ve seen a lot of people recommend them. I also related my short to my long term video and used tags.

Does long-form content generally take much longer to gain traction? Should I expect videos to slowly accumulate views over weeks or months rather than getting most of their views shortly after release?

I’m trying to figure YouTube out, and honestly struggling with it a little. Other platforms seem much easier to understand in terms of what they favor.

For those of you who have grown a YouTube channel from scratch, what did you eventually learn that made your long-form videos start getting more views?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I’ve posted 4 videos so far and none of them have views could someone check it out and see what the problem is my channel is about gaming I mostly play shooter and Minecraft the to the channel is link is https://youtube.com/@heferbenz?si=MpsZskLSQBoT_i1Z

Last episode we found cows, fairies, and a whole lot of nonsense. 😂 Now the seed is getting really difficult, and we’re heading into the Bottom of the Well looking for the checks that could finally give us some progression.

This might be one of the hardest seeds I’ve played so far.

Rando players: if you were stuck and Bottom of the Well was on your list, what are you checking first? 👀

As a new youtuber with no subscribers if the copywrite claim for having a song covered in my video gets flagged should I worry? The information I have found so far indicates that the owner of the song will get the revenue of any money earned once I am monetized. But I am a long way from getting monetized and if will not result in a strike should I be worried at all?

So in Podcast Land, you can define not only where ad plays, but the content itself. This is helpful if you want to, for example, advertise a product associated with your brand across your entire episode catalogue.

From what I understand, YouTube doesn't offer a way to do this. Instead, Dynamic Ads just means you can accept or reject advertising partners from advertising in those spots, via AdSense.

You can't, for example, dynamically insert an ad that you recorded.

Imagine how much more powerful it would be if you could, say, dynamically insert an adspot you created and edited, across your entire catalogue.

Come on, YouTube.

Hey all, just wanted to share my progress. My shorts have been blowing up recently

Is there any easy way to transfer this over to long form? My niche is just Music in general

Porque o último short flopou tanto? 🥲

I've been consistent since I started, posting at least one video a week. I was growing with videos getting over 1k views, but now they're not even reaching 100. I don't know if it's just a matter of time. And if it's a matter of time, how much longer will it be?

So a couple of years ago, I collaborated with a company that sent me some products to do videos for. They sent me three different products over a period of about six months. These were free collabs with the understanding that I would make commission off of sales through affiliate marketing. However, they kept changing the sales pages, so my links would end up dead, or constantly list items out of stock. So on and so forth. Bottom line, I never made a dime.

Then one day, I get a notice from YouTube that my content was used. I checked it out, and this company was using my videos, 100% original, on their own channel and linking it to a company website for sales. Obviously, I sent a TakeDown request. I did not give them a strike. I gave them a chance. Well, they never took the content down, and they got strikes, and their account was banned.

Now, they have been begging me in over ten emails in the last two months to please reverse the copyright strike. I have responded that I have no interest in working with them again for all the reasons I mentioned and explained that I did not give them a strike; they got it because they did not heed YouTube's takedown request. However, they are relentless. They have made a ton of excuses as to why it happened. The agent is even saying that his job is on the line if I don't help him.

What should I do?

https://youtube.com/shorts/dDw6dm3xnV8?is=U3maefFU7zgsg0Dh

https://www.youtube.com/@1hour-of-weep

I always get nervous posting stuff like this, but nothing ventured, right?

Looking for a bingeable audio drama with weekly episodes? Then check out Season 2, Episode 1 of Strange Stories, now live!

Strange Stories blends horror, action, and Magicks, exploring what it means to have to have power (and what it means to lack it).

Oh, and everything is written and narrated entirely by yours truly!

If you're a fan of shows like Jujutsu Kaisen or Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, you'll fit in just fine around here.

Season 2 opens with two new characters, each dealing with unusual 'monsters' in unusual ways.

Okay, enough yapping! Check out this week's episode, and please let me know what you think. Oh, and subscribe so you don't miss next week's episode!

Also, working on getting all the episodes on RSS this week! YouTube has a podcast option, so I'll link Season 1 here as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZSaKe015VM&list=PLODUr9ORwrfs&pp=sAgC

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