After waiting for what seemed like an eternity to upload it in HD, I finally recieved the email to say it was available. I went to check it and to my horror, ads for 3d animation companies started to appear.
Clearly bad for business I hot talied it over to google to find out how to rid myself of these intrusive ads.
Now, I'm sure by this point everyone who knows this is screaming "its obvious why you're getting ads!!!"
Well, to me it wasn't. On the original video I uploaded, we had the jaunty little number "The Entertainer" playing away in the background. Turns out that is copyrighted material. Do you see where I'm going?
I'm well aware that a lot of people probably know this already, but it seems that Youtube, to protect copyright and maybe make a little as well, put ads on videos with copyrighted music. Maybe to pay the artist and the PRS? Maybe to line their own pockets? I don't claim to know.
However, once I deleted the video, culled the music and re-uploaded, there is no sign of the offending ads.
Now I will have to nip onto my personal account to see about changing the audio on some of my videos.
Does anyone actually click on the overlay ads? I suppose they must, or else the big G wouldn't do it.
I have to say, this is probably my favourite.
Clearly HSBC are bidding on keywords like "DIE" and "DEATH" to get promote their retirement plans. Nice.
So, as a parting note, the moral of this story is:
Don't use copyrighted music on your videos unless you want to help promote the latest evolution in erectile dysfunction pills.
Simply compose the track yourself, or get some royalty free, or ask the permission of the artist. I have doen that in the past and you'd be amazed how many say yes.
Thats it for now,
Happy YouTube uploading.
Paul
Ps. "The Walker" is almost done!
