Hey Guys, I'm a vendor on clickbank and am starting to create several instructional videos each week to promote my product on YouTube. I was also looking to give my affiliates download access to the videos so that they can create their own youtube channels and upload them using their own titles/descriptions and using their aff. link to drive traffic. Is getting affiliates to re-upload my videos to their own channels frowned upon in any way? (Let's say 25 or more affiliates all have the same video uploaded to their channel) I've also heard that youtube has a duplicate content filter now to prevent dup. uploads, but have heard conflicting things about it. Any insight into this? Thanks, Sean
yes, if you upload the same video twice in your account, youtube wont publish it, it must be different in some way. I think it checks the video title + video size against the other videos in your account, and publish/doesnt publish according to it.
Thanks for the reply. What I meant was if I give the videos to my affiliates, who then re-post them under THEIR account. Is it considered unethical or even against the rules to upload the same video under a bunch of accounts even if those accounts legitemately belong to different people? And does youtube prevent the same video from being uploaded even if it's under a different account? Sean
Well it sounds like to me the videos are promotional content correct? If YouTube was deleting duplicate content under several names even, they'd lost a good size of their video database. To answer your question: No, it's not unethical for your affiliate to use the same videos. You've given them the rights to and as long as it's for promotional purposes only for your product, then there should be no problems what so ever. How-to guides are easy to do on YouTube, I'd also think about writing up guides to give to affiliates so if they wanted to be unique and wanted to create their own how-to videos to point at your website, they could study/read from your guide and they'd have the same knowledge as you but just in their own unique video. But no, it's not frowned upon.
Matters like this are deiced by the video site but it is better to create your own videos and submit them once on the same site.In a sentence it's like a redundant line which is not that good to hear.
In my experienced, I've uploaded many of the same videos but in a different account. If you're the owner of the vids, you can claim it buy reporting to Youtube. That's why, if you uploaded the vids belonging to certain recording studio, your vids will get banned because they claim the vids as right reserved to their company. What you need to do is, edit a lil in the video and then uploaded it besides change the title of the vids. Thanks
You can upload as many duplicate videos as you want, you just need to change the filename and/or the size/length of your video, dosnt have to be much.... I am sure if you abused this, eventually you will be banned, but if its for a legit purpose, you should be fine..