Those fucking assholes took down both my accounts saying that some of my videos had some copyright infringement, WHICH IS NOT TRUE!!!

 I WANT MONEY FOR INSTRUMENTALS I PAID FOR FAIR AND SQUARE!!! NO NOTICE, JUST AN EMAIL SAYING SORRY!!! FUCK YOU YOUTUBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Defenitely think you should move over to Vimeo.  When companies get too big and dominate, they tend to get way too arrogant and stop taking the people that are responsible for their succes in consideration. Youtube is great, but with what you're saying .... and not even replying is really bad.  Some people are now reliant on Youtube for tutorials etc and when that is gone, they need to scramble and find an alternative. 

Amazing how big companies also think they can't be replaced and will last forever. 

Anyway just my two cents. 

That is the problem with any entity getting too big a market share and too big for equitable TOS interpretation and enforcement.

So Glad to hear you guys are back and running. That is so strange to hear about the YouTube word violation.  Cant have YouTube in a title of a video.  Hmmm.  That confuses me and makes me somewhat nervous as well. 
In regard to your hubze.tv.  Good question.  Most of your subs are at YouTube.  I would say, 2 things.  Could you move your subs to Vimeo?  Give them notice that you are moving platforms?  Or keep your videos in YouTube but also syndicate them on Vimeo as well just to bullet proof the situation.  But of course where do you do most of your video interaction?  If it is on youtube then it is good to keep up with the community.  It is all a gamble though with all Social Media sites.  If you find that there is a proper ROI on the Hubze.tv as it applies to YouTube, then i suppose, keep that going.  with maybe always knowing the risk and trying to control as many variables as possible(back up on Vimeo) . Hope this helps.
C

This is ridiculous. Your company is not what i would call involved in the hard core Internet Marketing field where long sales copy and multiple upsells is the name of the game. So i find it strange if that is who they are trying to send a message too.

Interesting to note many IM'ers have been losing their paypal accounts over the last week or so as well!

Hi David,  I did have this happen to me last year.  In fact with little warning and no reaction from YT.  I actually wrote about it here.   http://caseyzemanonline.com/2010/08/how-i-coped-with-my-youtube-channel-being-hacked/
So i assumed I was hacked but looking at the data that has come around as of late.  It might have been simply that they were tutorial videos. Some of them even focused on YouTube Training. This is really crazy and my goal is to get to speak to someone at YT about these issues.

David, you are definitely not alone in the YouTube Banning campaign.  Well known SEO Legend, David Jenyns had his account terminated too.  I did see that he was able to be reinstated this morning after a day long "Open Letter" blogging campaign. http://www.davidjenyns.com/youtube-update

Overall, this is really scary in terms of your business.  The TOS and Community Guidelines are too vague as to what constitutes a violation.  I think youtube is heading for a lawsuit.  We just need to find someone with deep pockets to finance the fight for better publisher terms and a formalized process for remediation and dispute resolution.

Wow! That is unreal. Maybe they should start taking down the channels with the girls shakin it, posted to generate page views for their ads, instead of small businesses trying to earn an honest living and teach other people how to as well. We are trying to start up this economy that will only make it tougher on the small business like Hubze. Waste of time having to up load all those vids to Vimeo and to be down for that amount of time, others do not have access to the training video. Just slows the process of the economy and small business coming back to life..What a shame.. mj

I get why site like Facebook and YouTube shut you down when you use their brand in your content. If you read the TOS then you got your warning. If you don't read the TOS on a site before you post content then it certainly "feels" like they are being unfair in shutting you down. It's about protecting their brand that happens to be worth $billions. They can't allow others to use their brand. Period... without exception or they set a precedence that can come back to bite them later.

Simply use general terms and other keywords to describe your content and avoid any mention of a specific brand so that you stay in compliance. The downside is that this waters down the marketing message. Sorry it happened to you. Hope you have your videos saved somewhere so you can rename and reload them.

Thanks Kimberly!

This is exactly why I love what I help businesses, internet marketers, and solo professionals with.  Thanks for sharing your story out loud!

Congrats on getting back up! How did you contact them to make your appeal? We had the exact same thing happen to us, but no way to plead our case. It feels pretty helpless (which I'm sure you felt). All we do is interview adult industry people and post those interviews on our blog and on youtube. For the record there's no nudity, hate speech, sex... it's more industry interviews to educate those curious or people already in it to improve their careers.

You can check out our open letter to YouTube here: http://elmaveshow.com/youtube-terminates-our-account-hates-sex-and-hates-freedom/

Exactly..

Vimeo's T+ C forbids commercial use except for production companies, people hosting showreels and the like.
You might be ok with your tutorials but if you are doing staightforward marketing or using it as a way to host your business videos you can get shut down there too.

why not post in more than one place? As the saying goes, don't put all your eggs in one basket.  You will always be at the mercy of other companies even those whom you highly recommend.  They may be here one day and then gone the next.  You then loose all your content again.  

We just started using EVP to host videos for our paid services. Everything else on our account was/is just how to do social media and how to use our platform so free content. And we didn't feel the need to pay for that hosting without in turn charging people to view it to offset the costs...

Yeah Vimeo videos show up, but not as well as YT in the searches. But that also depends on how much time you spend on the description and etc.

Glad to hear you have your account back. Mine was 87 videos, mostly free computer help type videos. 1.5 million views, 1305 subscribers. Lots of "thank you's" and comments where I provided support for people having trouble with their PC.

I blogged about my problem here:
http://freecomputerconsultant.com/blog/r-i-p-youtube/

Would love for people to give me some support to get mine back.

thanks,
Roger
"Free Computer Consultant"

So Glad to hear you guys are back and running. That is so strange to hear about the YouTube word violation.  Cant have YouTube in a title of a video.  Hmmm.  That confuses me and makes me somewhat nervous as well. 
In regard to your hubze.tv.  Good question.  Most of your subs are at YouTube.  I would say, 2 things.  Could you move your subs to Vimeo?  Give them notice that you are moving platforms?  Or keep your videos in YouTube but also syndicate them on Vimeo as well just to bullet proof the situation.  But of course where do you do most of your video interaction?  If it is on youtube then it is good to keep up with the community.  It is all a gamble though with all Social Media sites.  If you find that there is a proper ROI on the Hubze.tv as it applies to YouTube, then i suppose, keep that going.  with maybe always knowing the risk and trying to control as many variables as possible(back up on Vimeo) . Hope this helps.
C

That sucks david.Personally, I wouldn't have only uploaded those important training videos to Youtube. If you have Easy Video Player and Amazon S3, then why wouldn't you have back them on on there? I've heard of this happening to marketers over a year ago, and never wanted to risk losing everything. It's unfortunate that they can just get away with deleting accounts like that. Lame.

Stay with you tube for the SEO value.. Does Vimeo get found/ rank as well as YouTube?

I am an internet marketer as well, and I sell an internet marketing suite, comf5. What you experienced happens frequently and will only increase now that Google is in the driver's seat! What we do and suggest to our clients is to have your own broadcast page (comes as part of the comf5 emarket engine suite). Not sure if other tools offer this or not. But the advantage is obvious; 1) you do not have to compete with other content (related or not) and 2) you don't have to worry about some body getting a wild hair and removing your content or taking away your platform. 

Correct. I have no admin rights to my Youtube account. And Youtube says in order to appeal, you have to click acknowledge - which I refuse to do. Someone on the forum told me that the acknowledge button is just "to say that you received the notice" - well of course I did, it's in bold letters. But my violation was against Community Guidelines, but they wouldn't specifically say which one. 

Hey Casey, that is a shame that you lost your account. Youtube and Google are becoming too big for their britches. Have you ever heard of Easy Video Producer? It is set up similar to youtube only better because you don't have all the links that can take people away from your video. There are already thousands of members on there also. It is owned by Joel Therien of GVO. Fantastic site and works great.  Keep up the good work Casy. I love all your videos and have been on your mailing list for a while. I think it is terrible what youtube can do for no reason at all. Tony Goff http://bit.ly/VideoSolutions

be careful with Paypal as well they are shutting down accounts. Any money you make from the Easy Player affiliate URL move it to your Bank fast!

This is ridiculous. Your company is not what i would call involved in the hard core Internet Marketing field where long sales copy and multiple upsells is the name of the game. So i find it strange if that is who they are trying to send a message too.

Interesting to note many IM'ers have been losing their paypal accounts over the last week or so as well!

My problem was more false flagging than Youtube turning me off due to keywords. Once you acknowledge the flag, then they're terminating accounts. But if you leave it there - your videos will still play. 

David - do you have the video in question posted anywhere else? I'd like to take a look at it to see if there's sense to be made from this.

You're given 3 warnings before your account is terminated so you either didn't get the other warnings or something weird is going on here.  That message that you included in this post is only the first warning (all 3 are written differently).

Hi David, This very thing happened to me last year.  I had about 100 videos hosted on YT and then without warning my entire account was suspended.  Now right before this happened , I was asked to join the partnership program.  When i went through that process, the very next day after going through  the questions and linking up my adsense, they closed my account. i thought this was due to a hacking, because all of my videos were original content.  Tutorial based, but original.  I wrote about it here. http://caseyzemanonline.com/2010/08/how-i-coped-with-my-youtube-channel-being-hacked/  .  Not sure what is going on with YT but I am going to get to the bottom of it.  MY most recent channel that I had to create again, so far (although i havent been on this morning) is still intact. I use amazon s3 on my site and now just use YT for content distribution.  Scary stuff. I am putting together some things that might be able to protect an internet marketers account.  ON mine, i have some other videos besides just tutorials maybe that is what is helping me now.  The other thing is YT can tell when you are using automation software or buying views.  That can have a huge effect.  Or if you are sending out too many emails at one time.  Let's talk more about it David.  Cheers, Casey

Hi David,  I did have this happen to me last year.  In fact with little warning and no reaction from YT.  I actually wrote about it here.   http://caseyzemanonline.com/2010/08/how-i-coped-with-my-youtube-channel-being-hacked/
So i assumed I was hacked but looking at the data that has come around as of late.  It might have been simply that they were tutorial videos. Some of them even focused on YouTube Training. This is really crazy and my goal is to get to speak to someone at YT about these issues.

Sheesh! Kinda scary to see this sorta thing still happening. James is right. The S3 Cloud removes this exposure. The ROI is apparent, so I was glad to see this one above. 

David, you are definitely not alone in the YouTube Banning campaign.  Well known SEO Legend, David Jenyns had his account terminated too.  I did see that he was able to be reinstated this morning after a day long "Open Letter" blogging campaign. http://www.davidjenyns.com/youtube-update

Overall, this is really scary in terms of your business.  The TOS and Community Guidelines are too vague as to what constitutes a violation.  I think youtube is heading for a lawsuit.  We just need to find someone with deep pockets to finance the fight for better publisher terms and a formalized process for remediation and dispute resolution.

Also, I have refused every request (every time I logged in) to turn on ads for our videos. I do not want our members or viewers to have to see an ad every time they want to watch one of our videos. Maybe that is why. That is what my wife said as well. Who knows. All I know is it is a bunch of dictator type crap, and we are not going to play ball!

Thanks Tara...and just so you know your blog post is not quite accurate...it was YouTube who suspended our account not Facebook and it was one video they said. Just FYI. And you are welcome to use that domain name until we are a billion dollar company! LOL