A (Former) YouTube Star's Rant: We'll Go It Alone, Thanks

By at 9:34 am Monday, May 14

John Battelle blogs:
Last week YouTube announced a new partners program (TC coverage here, Om's first coverage here). The program elicited a fair amount of negative response - see the comments in that partners program post - and a lot of head scratching as to how YouTube chose its partners, and what the Terms of Service might be. I happen to be friendly with a number of well-known YouTube "stars" and I emailed one of them for a read. What I got back was quite a rant. Below is a response that I can verify is from a well-known video blogger, who has a very large audience, but who asked for anonymity.

I have spoken to the folks at YouTube about this and suggested that they be given a chance to respond to this post, once it goes up. That certainly seemed fair to me. Should they wish to, I'll post their response here. Meanwhile, read on, in the first person words of a former YouTube star....

Read the entire rant from the now-formerly-YouTube-star who shall remain anonymous, but whose identity is pretty obvious if you're a fan: Link.

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