what's up guys today we're gonna look at
the amazon merch content policy update
we're gonna compare it to the old one
try to see what changed and try to make
sense of it so if you're ready let's go
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right let's look at the
content policy so i logged into merch
today and notice this pop-up starting
today our policies are updated to
clarify restrictions on content
that promotes illegal activity is
sexually obscene
and is inflammatory please review your
listings to ensure your products comply
with these policies
by february 8th 2021
okay so i'm not sure what spurred them
to update the content policy
i mean i could guess um but either way
let's look at
the old one real quick now we don't need
to read through the old content policy i
had to go back through one of my old
youtube videos it's actually my amazon
merch course
so older video and it's got the uh
content policy
before today and then you'll notice it
got updated
and kind of simplified i mean that's the
one consistent thing that i noticed
across the board is they really
condensed it it's probably half as long
as it used to be
so before they would split it into you
know 1.1 copyright 1.2 trademark 1.3
international law and they got rid of
the
you know 1.1 1.2 1.3 stuff
so let's look at the new one illegal or
infringing content content that does
not comply with federal state or local
laws in the geographies in which
your listings are available that's
implying that it'll be removed
content incorporating intellectual
property such as trademarks copyrights
or the names or likeness of others that
you do not have the right
to use so again that is not really
changing anything i mean that's always
been the rules here
also notice that they give us the links
that we can use to go look up registered
trademarks
in various countries that we're allowed
to sell in through amazon merch also i
mean
to summarize this part nothing really
changed we know better than to
infringe on people's intellectual
property also
i always recommend just like look at
what's selling
because oftentimes the algorithm will be
incorrect
in either letting you sell something or
sometimes
not letting you sell something but
either way looking at what's on the
marketplace
is a good way it's indicative of
whether or not you'll be rejected let's
just say that because first and foremost
i know we want to avoid rejections
to keep our accounts safe so i always
want to look at the marketplace and see
what's listed
and base my decisions on what's already
there
all right this is the old one for
objectionable
content as you can see it's a pretty
long write-up but the
new content policy for section two they
have
made it much simpler so it is offensive
and
or sorry offensive or controversial
content so this is what is not allowed
content that promotes incites or
glorifies hatred violence
racial sexual or religious intolerance
or promote
organizations with such views it's a
little open-ended there so i mean
you may want to go through an audit we
don't really know how strict this is
really going to be until they
actually start removing shirts content
that
graphically portrays violence or victims
of violence
content depicting children or characters
resembling children in sexually
suggestive manner
youth-sized products that contain adult
content profanity and or sexual
references we know you got to be extra
careful
with the youth checkbox anytime you
check that the content policy becomes
stricter content related to human
tragedies and natural disasters
content using profanity to attack a
group or individual
content that promotes illegal activity
sexually obscene content and
inflammatory content
so yeah i mean in my mind i'm like man
how are they going to algorithmically
police this
you know because like some of this stuff
is it's
you know because like sometimes what's
illegal in one
state in america is not legal in another
state so
you know when they say okay you have to
know the laws
you know if we go back two slides uh the
laws of where you're geographically
selling it's like well what if it's
state law versus
uh federal law you know versus local law
so i don't know how they're gonna police
this stuff but um
it's certainly in my mind is raising
some red flags
fortunately for me you know a lot of
what and i've been open about this my
youtube channel a lot of the
listings i've made in the last six
months since i got tiered up to tier 100
000 are just like scaled up
very generic designs that i used
automate pod
to create and then used merge titan's
automation to upload so
they're not really fringe any of the
stuff that we just talked about
at all but you can notice here just
going back one slide that they have
really made a point of
making this a lot simpler to read you
know they went in such depth that they
went specifically to 2.7 nazism
promotion
you know and they got rid of that all
right and then there's only one section
left in the new policy uh in the old one
there was actually three four and five
but they have designs and descriptions
this is the old one
the new one so they got rid of a lot of
the references to
like spelling or references to certain
uh
colors for instance like you couldn't
say gold i think and like neon
um actually they say like texture
material including wood metal marble
sequin glitter leather
rubber so i don't know if you still
can't do that or not i haven't uploaded
a to test that today but you could see
here they gave us examples of words you
couldn't say like neon metallic foil
rose gold
gold and they got rid of all that so
this is the new consolidated
section three it says you are not
allowed to
other content not allowed solicitations
for customer reviews
content giving the impression sales
proceeds will be donated to
other organizations or used for charity
content that
references product fulfillment or
delivery attributes
other content that might lead to a poor
customer experience
see the guide to merge product quality
for examples of content that's typically
disappointing to customers
so that's probably they probably moved
the three point
3.3 right here that talks about all
those things
where you may mislead a customer into
thinking that the shirt's going to look
a certain way when they get it
they probably moved all of those things
to this guide to merch product quality
so that's it it's a pretty short and uh
straightforward
albeit very open-ended and open to
interpretation content policy
and i didn't even you know include the
first paragraph that says
essentially this is not i think they
said this is not exhaustive
so everything that we just covered here
in the new content policy
is not necessarily the limitation of the
scope
they still reserve the right to pull
anybody's stuff down for any reason
so that's also worth mentioning but they
did get rid of like section four
section five i guess they you could say
they they rolled that up into section
three
um so it's a little bit more
straightforward now and i just wanted to
do a video about this
you know until we've seen this
live for a while like i think they said
we have until february 28th
to um get this fixed but until we've
seen this live
for a while we're not really gonna know
how
much things really changed like you can
see please review your listings to
ensure your products comply
with these policies by february 8th
2021.
that's all i wanted to cover in this
video guys quick reminder i have a
full course outlining how i took my
amazon merch account from tier 10 to
tier 100 thousand if you want to check
that out there's a link in the
description
and that's it thanks for watching till
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tomorrow
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