hi I'm still not in yet ow but I'm flow
I'm one of the guys working in the
background doing production things and
as such I wanted to talk about a few
production related things
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so the first thing that you might
remember from a while ago is the so
called at pocalypse so you know the
whole confusing situation with YouTube
and the advertisers and monetization etc
etc I think a few months ago we made a
video about this I said well when we
upload a video we automatically don't
get any ads on it but we need to have it
reviewed by YouTube to reinstate
monetization so to get ads and ad
revenue from it and that usually took
you know about two three hours maybe
five hours and that was fine
now YouTube wrote this out - a lot more
channels I think according to an
algorithm that you know detects things
like text the video title that sort of
thing
so and this review process now takes 48
hours or longer at the moment we have
three videos uploaded that we uploaded
late last week one of them being the
store Mary's episode that you probably
watched yesterday which took as of
recording of this video more than 72
hours - Wow we don't know if it gets
monetized or not so what this means is
we already had this happening with some
videos now is that we upload the videos
because you know of course we want you
to don't miss out on any content and I
know that a lot of people plan their
lunch breaks about our new content so
what this means is that for example with
the recent episode about Bruce asked out
that the first 40,000 or even more views
of the video don't get any ads with it
this of course sucks for us because well
you know our ad revenue is decreasing
about this so I mean we're trying to be
faster about this you know that's why we
already uploaded a bunch of videos for
this week for example last week but if
the review process
can take even 72 hours or longer that's
really not that much we can do so
yeah though I just wanted to say that
you know the best thing to support our
show is still to support us on patreon
it's still the main thing that keeps the
show going
you can also buy all merchandise or you
know to meet us at fan meetings for
example which brings me to the next
topic is that next week we're going to
be in Italy I don't know if you saw the
announcement video which is something
that is mainly only possible because of
the patreon support and if you want to
meet us there the links for that are in
the description we're going to be in
cooperate or Caporetto in on September
18th we're going to be in Vittorio
Veneto
on September 19th and we're going to be
at the log as we which is in the
mountains on September 20th so if you
got wanna meet us have some dinner with
us also visit the museum's there talk
about the local history or you know just
have yeah hang out with us it's usually
a lot of fun then you know follow the
links in the description and last but
not least I want to share something else
very exciting with you which is the
central out of the trenches questions
platform database website app thing so
if you go to out of the trenches dot the
Great War dot TV you will see a brand
new platform that a few fans of the show
from the Netherlands actually developed
for us we have the problem that four out
of the trenches we usually get and I
would say 50 to 150 questions every day
like the YouTube comments subreddit
Facebook Instagram Twitter everywhere
and it's very hard for us to keep track
of it and it also makes it harder for
you guys to articulate which questions
you want to have answered and to get an
overview of which questions we answered
so far
etc so to make this all a lot more
efficient I like efficiency we have this
platform now what you can do there
thought-out
our works is you go to the website you
can log in with Facebook Google or with
your patreon account going to talk about
that in a minute
and you can look for all questions that
has have been answered so far a friend
of the developers actually went through
all of the out of the trenches episodes
and transcribed all the old questions
and to link to the answers there so
thanks out for that so we can search for
questions that were already answered you
can see the questions that have been
submitted you can vote for the questions
that you want to have answered which
helps us prioritize in which questions
we should answer you can submit your own
questions which then other view users
can vote on and you know that helps us
prioritizing so for our patreon so you
know four five or more dollars every
month you get a patreon perk that you
get a you know in a prioritized queue
basically so if you have if you donate
five dollars or more we can log-in with
your patreon account and we
automatically when you submit a question
we'll have a patreon icon next to it and
the question will have higher priority
in the ranking we also introduced a new
perk with a launch of the platform that
if you support us with three dollars or
more that then your votes for questions
you like actually count double so you
know just a small cool thing that we
thought would be cool as a small token
of gratitude for your support on patreon
again that's what it keeps the show
going so and every dollar really counts
so I mean I think we have like 4,000
people supporting the show if you can
spare it it really helps us out it makes
us more independent it helps us to do
things like merchandise better
animations this sort of stuff I hope you
can see that you know we improved the
show since the patreon really took off
in the last year and of course we want
to do that some more in the you know
upcoming months
so yeah that was a public service
announcement with not in UNIDO
but with me and if you have any
questions then there's put them in the
comments and I will answer them
as I answer all the comments on YouTube
actually see you