Youtube Terminated My Account For Posting Negative Product Review

12 years ago

What was the product about?

Did they give specific reasons or just terminate your accounts? it could have been a combination of things .. including that you've had multiple accounts.

If the product is on something that can be classed as MMO then that would be the reason, not that it's a negative review .. lots of people post negative stuff on their all the time and don't get accounts terminated which makes me wonder if they dislike the niche that the product is for.

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Bluestarace

12 years ago

Originally Posted by nrupen

Dear Warriors,
I had Youtube accounts and slowly all got terminated for posting a negative video review on product. Yesterday when the final one also got terminated, youtube sent me message that following video violated terms of use.

All reported videos were product reviews and they were negative. So note that next time don't post any negative product review on youtube else your account may get terminated.

YouTube doesn't just take down videos that offer negative reviews. There has to be something else. Maybe someone reported you or something, or it could be a case of copyright infringement. Idk. Go over their guidelines before posting another video.

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pers1t 12 years ago

It's pretty likely that product creator saw your video and reported to Youtube. He could have told them that you are the owner of competiting product trying t oruin his reputation, for example.
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whitefang842

12 years ago

It is bad for their business if you do something negative.
So i just make reviews of good products.

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PhilippaWrites

12 years ago

Originally Posted by whitefang842

It is bad for their business if you do something negative.
So i just make reviews of good products.

I disagree. If I saw a reviewer who was only ever positive about everything I would question their judgement. or their honesty.

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fcebri24

12 years ago

It is possible that someone had flagged it (product creator) several times that Youtube ended up shutting down your account. I know this can happen because it happened to me.

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julesw

12 years ago

They might flag for using their logo, packaging etc however legally reviews of products should be exempt from issues about showing it on screen as reviews come under 'fair dealing' ( thats a uk term its called something else in the us)

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WillR

12 years ago

They did not remove your videos because they were negative reviews. I hate it when people spread silly rumors like that based on something that has only happened to themselves.

Your videos were likely taken down because they offered very little value to the Youtube community.

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Jon Patrick

12 years ago

Originally Posted by WillR

They did not remove your videos because they were negative reviews. I hate it when people spread silly rumors like that based on something that has only happened to themselves.

Your videos were likely taken down because they offered very little value to the Youtube community.

I respect your opinion, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the idea of some low-paid employee at YouTube making a subjective determination about the value of people's videos and closing down their accounts based on that determination. As long as people aren't breaking the rules, I think what they choose to upload and how people choose to view/rate/comment on it should be their business.

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WillR

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Jon Patrick

I respect your opinion, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the idea of some low-paid employee at YouTube making a subjective determination about the value of people's videos and closing down their accounts based on that determination. As long as people aren't breaking the rules, I think what they choose to upload and how people choose to view/rate/comment on it should be their business.

It's no secret Youtube do not like videos that add no value to their community. They have been removing a lot of these product review videos with just text and words because they do offer very little value and are only posted for the purpose of driving people to an affiliate or product link.

So yes, those videos will get removed by Youtube and it's not hard for a Youtube employee to determine the value based on the video format itself. If it's a simple video with just text and words and a product or affiliate link beneath it, it's quite likely it will get removed nowadays if someone reports it.

Youtube do not want to be known as a video hosting service because that's not how they make their money. They make their money by hosting quality videos people want to watch and they then advertise next to and over those videos. If your videos are of poor quality and offer little to no value, no one wants to watch them. You end up being nothing more than a drain on Youtube's resources and they don't want that.

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Jon Patrick

12 years ago

Originally Posted by WillR

They have been removing a lot of these product review videos with just text and words because they do offer very little value and are only posted for the purpose of driving people to an affiliate or product link.

So yes, those videos will get removed by Youtube and it's not hard for a Youtube employee to determine the value based on the video format itself. If it's a simple video with just text and words and a product or affiliate link beneath it, it's quite likely it will get removed nowadays if someone reports it.

Fair enough, if we're talking about simple text on the screen, or worse yet, the kind that are basically one photographic slide stretched out to the length of a video. Low-level employees can be trained to recognize these, and the value determination becomes less subjective. I can't disagree with your logic there.

In other situations, though, the subjective value determination approach presents problems - I say this as someone who has had a YouTube account closed that contained nothing but actual legitimate videos (unquestionably so) after a few malicious flaggings.

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WillR

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Jon Patrick

In other situations, though, the subjective value determination approach presents problems - I say this as someone who has had a YouTube account closed that contained nothing but actual legitimate videos (unquestionably so) after a few malicious flaggings.

Jon,

No doubt they get it wrong sometimes. It's the same with all the big companies, Google, Paypal, Facebook, eBay, and so on. They have so many users that they can't possibly review everything manually so they have certain automatic systems in place to detect and remove users or accounts that appear to pose a risk to their service. It's always going to be the case. But for every person they ban unnecessarily they probably get rid of another 50-100 who should have been banned. So the small few that are removed for doing nothing wrong are a small price to pay for ridding their platform of all the nuisance users.

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Jon Patrick

12 years ago

Originally Posted by BIG Mike

Jon, I understand what you're getting at but I think what you and many others misunderstand is that YouTube and similar services are not Democracies and you really don't have much in the way of rights to begin with.

I completely understand this. It's just my opinions I'm talking about.

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nrupen 12 years ago

Originally Posted by WillR

Your videos were likely taken down because they offered very little value to the Youtube community.

I highly disagree with this because I had more than 300 subscribers on one of my youtube channels, several likes without any promotion, no backlinking, no advertising.
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Jon Patrick

12 years ago

It's definitely possible to have people maliciously flag your videos followed by YouTube closing your account for no good reason. I've had it happen to me.

However, I did notice you're talking about multiple accounts. How many accounts did you make?

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Chris Worner

12 years ago

To add to what Will has already, it is also against their ToS to have multiple accounts as well.

Originally Posted by nrupen

Dear Warriors,
I had Youtube accounts and slowly all got terminated for posting a negative video review on product.

-Chris

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GlenH 12 years ago

Because YT are getting so slammed with so many garbage video's that offer no value to viewers, they've started to take action by removing videos and banning accounts for so called...'breaches of their TOS'

And they have only just started!

Watch this next 12 months while YT put it's version of 'drain cleaner' though it's video DB. It won't be pretty.
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Heuristic 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris Worner

To add to what Will has already, it is also against their ToS to have multiple accounts as well.

-Chris

Really? Did not see this in their TOS. Could you link to your source? Thanks
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zerofill 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Chris Worner

To add to what Will has already, it is also against their ToS to have multiple accounts as well.

-Chris

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troy23

12 years ago

If YouTube pull videos which add no value then they are going to have very few videos left.

Hopefully they will pull family based videos where people upload pointless garbage of their new born babies, weddings, birthdays etc which add zero value to the community.

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fluffythewondercat 12 years ago

The answer is very simple, really.

Just have kittens doing your product reviews;

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- Jon Patrick 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by fluffythewondercat
  
  The answer is very simple, really.
  
  Just have kittens doing your product reviews;
  
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- Gail_Curran 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by fluffythewondercat
  
  The answer is very simple, really.
  
  Just have kittens doing your product reviews;
  
  You're probably kidding, but that could be an awesome idea. Make a video of your cat being catlike (even better if you have access to kittens or puppies), do a voiceover about the product, add some callouts and a call to action at the end, and voila. You could do a whole channel with cute animals reviewing products. It would totally go viral. Or not.
  
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WillR

12 years ago

Originally Posted by troy23

Hopefully they will pull family based videos where people upload pointless garbage of their new born babies, weddings, birthdays etc which add zero value to the community.

A lot of the most viral videos on Youtube that have bought literally hundreds of millions of views to the site have been just that... home videos or silly moments from real life situations. So they would be silly to ban that type of stuff.

Besides, a video of someone's wedding or vacation still has more worth to the community than a lame text and audio video that has been put together for the SOLE purpose of driving people to an affiliate or product link.

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fluffythewondercat 12 years ago

You're probably kidding, but that could be an awesome idea. Make a video of your cat being catlike

My cat does catlike really, really well.

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cjreynolds

12 years ago

Originally Posted by troy23

If YouTube pull videos which add no value then they are going to have very few videos left.

Hopefully they will pull family based videos where people upload pointless garbage of their new born babies, weddings, birthdays etc which add zero value to the community.

You're tellin me that cute cat videos add no value to the internet???!!

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carlpicot

12 years ago

I don't want to sound obvious but Maybe it would be better privately hosting your video reviews or using a different site other than You Tube ?

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12 years ago

Wow, Youtube admin is a joke.

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tj

12 years ago

Originally Posted by nrupen

Dear Warriors,
I had Youtube accounts ....

Maybe that's why you got shut down because of to many YT accounts and to many postings?

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alfid

12 years ago

I agree. It could've been you've been found out about all the accounts you had. I highly doubt you can get banned for leaving a negative review unless it was outright bashing the company in a slanderous way.

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jaiganeshv

12 years ago

Is it a honest review from the buyer of the product?
Did you "buy" the product and left a "honest" review of your experience which was negative?

I think if it looks genuine buyer and when it shares experience, it should ideally not get flagged.

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WillR

12 years ago

Originally Posted by nrupen;6494882[B

Spreading Rumors About YouTube :[/B]
I am not spreading rumors about YouTube. I just told what happened to me, not with just one account but with all six of them. It took me more than 2 years to create and upload that amount of videos, and same amount of time other marketers also spend while targeting YouTube, so that it can provide some addition to their current income.

Sorry, but I have to disagree with that comment.

Your original thread stated...

I had Youtube accounts and slowly all got terminated for posting a negative video review on product. Yesterday when the final one also got terminated, youtube sent me message that following video violated terms of use.

All reported videos were product reviews and they were negative. So note that next time don't post any negative product review on youtube else your account may get terminated.

In that statement you are making a judgement call and generalization based on speculation and not fact. That to me is a rumor. You have no proof as to why your account was banned yet you were telling everyone that they should not post negative review videos because they risk getting their account banned.

That is simply untrue.

Originally Posted by nrupen

If YouTube deletes your account which holds more than 60 to 70 videos and regular subscribers then it means some percent of your traffic is not only affected but a big part of your income too.

If you decide to build your business on a house of cards then that is no one's fault but your own. A site like Youtube should NEVER play a big role in your income because as you have witnessed first hand, it is far too unreliable. Heavily relying on any third party service like that is only going to lead to disappointment down the line.

Originally Posted by nrupen

I highly disagree with this because I had more than 300 subscribers on one of my youtube channels, several likes without any promotion, no backlinking, no advertising.

Youtube are not silly. Subscribers and likes can be bought very easily nowadays and they know that. For that reason they care more about the quality of the videos rather than the number of subscribers or likes it has received. If they are receiving multiple complaints about your videos then they will likely remove them.

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goindeep

12 years ago

Im not too sure what WillR is banging on about.

To me as a consumer there is no better review than an honest one and if that happens to be negative then so be it. It helps me. Its valuable, very valuable.

I dont know how many times I have opted not to buy something because of the great reviews I found on the web.

And just to clarify, I also like skate boarding dogs.

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WillR

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Andrei Rotariu

Im not too sure what WillR is banging on about.

To me as a consumer there is no better review than an honest one and if that happens to be negative then so be it. It helps me. Its valuable, very valuable.

I too have watched review videos on Youtube and made buying decisions based off of them. However the review videos I watch are NOT ones that have been made for the sole purpose of trying to send me to an affiliate or product link. They are videos by everyday people who have NO financial interest in their review or the big websites who do regular unbiased reviews of popular products.

If I landed on a channel that was full of negative review videos that had been manufactured for the sole purpose of selling items then I would not give any consideration to those reviews... nor should anyone else. That's why they offer no real value to the community.

The simple fact is the OP said these videos account for a large part of his income meaning these videos WERE created for the purpose of selling products to people. If it were not the case then he wouldn't be having a whinge. I am guessing he chose to fill his channel with negative reviews to try and differentiate himself from the market, cause a little controversy, get more people to watch his videos and ultimately make more affiliate sales.

Well, it backfired.

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fedor50

12 years ago

Originally Posted by nrupen

Dear Warriors,
I had Youtube accounts and slowly all got terminated for posting a negative video review on product. Yesterday when the final one also got terminated, youtube sent me message that following video violated terms of use.

All reported videos were product reviews and they were negative. So note that next time don't post any negative product review on youtube else your account may get terminated.

Update After Reading Your Replies :

Having Multiple Accounts :
Yes I had multiple accounts, I had total 6 accounts, in weight loss, muscle building and dating niche, rest I used to promote physical products. Each account was registered with different name with different email id and different phone number. So far as I think there's no way they could have detected all accounts belong to same person.

Low Value Video :
I don't think videos on my channels were low value because in no case you can get subscribers for such channels I never actively promoted any of my video in any manner to appear on search engine or paid advertisement. I already mentioned YouTube reported that they are closing my account for certain videos, all those were product reviews and they were negative.

A Competitor or Product Owner Has Flagged My Videos To Get Removed :
May be, I don't know anything yet.

Spreading Rumors About YouTube :
I am not spreading rumors about YouTube. I just told what happened to me, not with just one account but with all six of them. It took me more than 2 years to create and upload that amount of videos, and same amount of time other marketers also spend while targeting YouTube, so that it can provide some addition to their current income.

If YouTube deletes your account which holds more than 60 to 70 videos and regular subscribers then it means some percent of your traffic is not only affected but a big part of your income too. I am not spreading rumors about anything, just am just asking other marketers targeting YouTube to play safe with negative reviews because what happened to me can also happen to them.

Have a nice day.

I believe you. There have been many stories come out about people being banned on Youtube for posting a negative review of "certain" products. Many people I've spoken to have heard about people being banned just for posting an honest review

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Banned 12 years ago

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Josh Fulfer

12 years ago

I had about 20 accounts banned a little while back. Some of them were old spammy accounts from when I was a n00b and didn't know any better but some of them were legit good accounts.

I used this form on my legit accounts that just got banned by association and they've been pretty good about restoring them.
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