last year I did a video on Amazon how I got banned from Amazon and today I'm not going to
read escutcheon directly and the problems I had in Amazon but I was checking into these Amazon links
and I decided you know what through all her the roles and I got banned from Amazon and I thought
okay well I'll just put other channels links down below and let them take you know whatever little
cut that there is on Amazon guys nobody's getting rich off these Amazon link stuff but I thought
since I can't do it why not just have some of my friends and I'll have their links down below so
I thought okay so before I do this best thing to do be honest call Amazon so that's what I did is
I called Amazon and I said look I have a YouTube channel and can I put Amazon links down below and
they said absolutely sure you can put all the links you want down there you know you're not
going to get paid for it or anything but thank you very much for putting links down there if you'd
like to the products that you're showing on your YouTube channel and I said no no no I says not my
links below what kind of Link's you talking about and I said Amazon associate links this is while
are you an Amazon associate and I says no well if you're putting links down there that are Amazon
associate links you have to say that you're an Amazon associate you know in your video either
verbally or in written form somewhere on your your website or your YouTube channel and I says no no
I'm not an Amazon associate but you know can I put somebody else's links in there and he says
well no because to put Amazon associate links on your YouTube page you have to say you're an
Amazon associate so their amazon associate links they're not actually just regular Amazon links so
I thought okay well guess what you can't put the links down there apparently so I did do a little
bit of googling though and guys I don't know if I got this straight or not but I kind of looked at
the Terms of Service on YouTube I looked at the bunch of different YouTube videos saying you're
not even allowed to put Amazon links on YouTube and tell you the truth I'm not really up on all
this Amazon links and whether you're allowed to use and we're not logged user whenever it seems
that YouTube is letting people put them in there but it's up to their discretion really like I mean
I don't know I mean just just think about it for a bit if you have a large corporation like YouTube
and you're getting all these Amazon links in there and all these links are making money for Amazon I
can't see how YouTube is making any money from the links getting Amazon rich so but what I can see is
more maybe traffic or more people viewing channels that are showing I guess reviews of products but
to me I really can't see that they would have to actually do the numbers the bean counters they're
over at YouTube but doing the numbers and saying are we making enough money on extra views on ad
time for having Amazon links in there to products that people are reviewing or is it the other way
that Amazon is making a fortune off of the YouTube links as far as I could see guys now I'm no expert
a lot of use guys have huge YouTube channels and you're a lot more expert on this stuff than I am
but I'm wondering if YouTube is allowing this as they build everything up they build it all
up and everybody's got the Amazon links in there and I'm a hundred percent in favor of
Amazon link's because you know what you'd go you go broke making money off of youtube at least you
make a little couple of bucks extra on Amazon links and I think it's ethical to do if you're
reviewing a product you're showing it and you put a link in there well if they're gonna buy
the product anyways why not bribe buy it off of your site and I think that's fair right and all
I wanted to do was put them links on my channel and you know for the benefit of my friends that
have Amazon links because I do review a lot of products and I still buy a lot of Amazon stuff
I have no problems with Amazon it's just the Amazon associate program I really like Amazon
and I like buying their products so but when you really think about it how many corporations do
you see do that like I mean you're not going to see a Chevy commercial saying you know here's
a you know a good link to go look at a Ford I mean got face like they're like night and day
kind of a thing I mean you're actually leaving the YouTube site itself and going to another
channel for another corporation to make money and as far as I understand about big business
I think that they're actually doing that letting it build up build up and build up and then finally
they're going to make a decision in the future on these Amazon links somehow I don't know how
but I believe that they are going to get a cut out of this somehow whether it's going to be at
Amazon's end or whether somehow the links being put on the YouTube channels today they'll get
a fee off of that somehow because I cannot see this continuing like that now if you notice in
the future well you can actually tell by what's happened in the past they allowed everybody
on YouTube to get monetized and build up their channels and then they said okay 4,000 hours of
watch time or 1000 subscribers now you're down you can't be monetized at that point my speculation
is that there's more creators out there than they have actually advertisers and they had to balance
the system out because they have way too many creators now they let it go like that for a long
time I believe in the future there's going to be another one of these Corrections where it might be
you know like 10,000 hours and 5,000 subscribers I believe that this is going to happen you know
it's just like a small business you know you work your way up and that's what I think YouTube is
doing when they allowed everybody to be monetized they knew they were going to get a lot of people
coming in and I think it just costs them too much money to maintain small you know YouTube
channels that are making say a hundred dollars a year then it's worth their time so yeah the
bean counters get in there guys and this is what happens and I think the bean counter is going to
get in there again and up it again in the future so I don't know what you guys think about this
idea of do you think that I'm like off the moon here or something I mean a lot of use guys are
in business and you really can't see one business promoting another business without getting a cut
on it somehow unless I'm missing something I can't see how YouTube is making any money off of Amazon
links and now a lot of the channels who aren't monetized anymore the only way they can make a
couple of bucks and guys I'm talking like a couple of bucks at the most on these Amazon links because
nobody's getting rich off of this Amazon stuff guys I really you know that's the only income that
they have you know I believe that if you're making YouTube videos you should get paid something you
know and at least that look right now they've lost their ad revenue from Adsense but you know they'll
so you can make at least it can make some money if they're showing reviews and putting in some Amazon
links and I think that's going to be taken away in the future too because I think that they're going
to do thing about this because just think about it how many channels do you watch now where you
see that there is an Amazon link in there years ago there was no Amazon links and I can remember
when it first started it was like like if you do this you might lose your partnership with YouTube
you know there was all kinds of downfalls to it and everything else and then a couple started
doing it and then now it's quite common to see a lot of Amazon links and I encourage if you have
a YouTube channel and you're doing reviews and showing products absolutely the Amazon links you
know are good and you might make maybe 10 bucks at least you're making something guys right so
but yeah I'm just wondering what you guys think about this like I mean I was surprised to find out
I can't put anybody else's link on my channel you know if they're an Amazon associate yeah
I can't put their links on my channel because I'm not an Amazon associate and because they're
an Amazon associate link I have to say I'm an Amazon associate and I'm not so I thought I'd
just bring that up today and update you on the me get banned on on Amazon for not being allowed
to be an associate and if you'd like to watch that video I'll put the link down below of how
I all came about how me getting banned and guys I have no hard feelings towards Amazon or anything
like that I mean for me it would have just been a couple of bucks a month and that's it I mean not
a lot of money guys but I thought well you know a lot I mean a lot of people are friends of mine
they have the Amazon links and they said Steve you're you're putting you know you're showing the
Amazon packaging all the time and you're reviewing their products that you buy for yourself why not
put a link down there at least you make a couple of bucks and somebody buys the product at least
you're getting a little bit and they're not paying anything more it's all the same price so what I
thought I just bring this up today I don't want it to sound like some kind of a conspiracy theory
or anything like that but in my mind I have a good under standing of how business works guys I can't
see YouTube going along with this Amazon links to the point where the bean counters at Amazon
are saying you know what YouTube is sending like a billion dollars a year business our way like if
they turn a switch off and say no more Amazon links man we're gonna lose a lot of money and
YouTube is probably thinking you know what we're making Amazon a ton of cash here maybe we should
think about talking to Amazon but something's gonna happen here I predict that something's gonna
happen with these Amazon links and what do you guys think you know if you think that this sounds
illogical or something like that but you know I'd be welcome to you know take a look at any comments
you have whether you think that something's going to happen here and I'm gonna predict two things
the Amazon links it something's gonna happen there and I believe that they're gonna up the
requirements to become a monetize channel and I'm just guessing roughly you know like probably ten
thousand hours maybe in 10,000 subscribers I'm not too sure I'm not too sure in the formula I
don't think they'll notch it up too high at a time but I think they will because there's a
lot of competition out there and in the future you may see a lot of competition directly with
YouTube with other social media sites offering the same platform and the same monetization so
we'll see about that so thanks for joining me here today I'm having a blast doing this
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