youtube: Users mean nothing but advertisers are the shit

bornkillerbornkiller AdministratorIn your girlfriends snatch
edited July 2015 in Spurious Generalities
Ok! Here's another one similar to that instagram scenario.

Regular user creates a youtube account in 2005 (youtube doesn't belong to google until 2006).He starts posting to his video blog solidifying his youtube rep. Some big assed cosmetic company by the name of lush comes along in 2015 and decides "I wanna youtube account to promote our products. They're so greenhorn at youtubing that they'd probably require a manual to upload youtube vids. They're like Hang on! The username we want is taken. No worries we'll get google to take it from them. .

As I've always said this is the reality of today's internet. The user base who played a vital role in making places such as reddit, instagram and youtube a marketable success were simply pawns for a commercial uprising They are used, abused and discarded like pieces of shit under ones shoe

A change is required and that change needs to be now. What's happened to reddit isn't just a bitch and moan but more a catalyst for change. An example of what can happen when the very essence that solidified it's foundation get's discarded.

Lush cosmetics in YouTube address dispute

A popular video blogger has hit out at cosmetics brand Lush after he lost control of a YouTube address he had been using since 2005.

Matthew Lush said fans seeking out his channel were now being redirected to the beauty brand instead.

The company told the BBC it had not requested the change but would not say if it would give the address back.

Google said it was "sympathetic" to Mr Lush's situation and that the decision was made by an algorithm.
Mr Lush, who has 10 times as many YouTube subscribers as the soap brand, told the BBC he felt "betrayed".
Mr Lush registered the username Lush in 2005, which was attached to the web address youtube.com/Lush.

Last year, Google started allowing YouTube creators to customise their channel addresses.

Google said its algorithm decided which address Lush Cosmetics was given, based on data from YouTube, Google+, its search engine and other sources.

Mr Lush told the BBC: "I've been doing YouTube for a long time, but they've stripped this from me."

"I have that address on thousands of bracelets that I've sold, and it's embedded in my videos. I can't remake those now," he said.

Google said Mr Lush was a "valued creator" and that it had offered to pay for new marketing materials for his channel.

The BBC understands it would be at the discretion of Lush Cosmetics to allow Mr Lush to use the address again.

Google told the BBC: "We continue to make every effort to work with creators to support their needs on YouTube."

Mr Lush's fans have set up a petition to ask the cosmetics company to hand over the web address.

One fan even posted pictures of herself burning Lush products on Twitter.

Like many YouTube stars, Mr Lush earns a living from advertisements displayed around his content.

He said: "My brand is very important to me too. A brand is how you grow."
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33223511

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