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VIDEOAs you can see in this video, YouTube is officially claiming that all revenue earned by creators up to the moment of demonetization of their channels will be REFUNDED to the advertisers if the demonetization period lasts for more than 50 days. Since the vast majority of channels that are demonetized remain so for more than 50 days, this affects quite a bit of creators and revenue. The strange thing is that demonetized channels at least up to September 2020 were paid their earnings up to the point of demonetization as happened to my DUmmie FUnnies channel. However, starting at...

This morning I was in the process of uploading a video I created about making the GREATEST Margarita in the world. However, I noticed there was no monetization button. When I checked further I noticed my entire channel had been demonetized (again). On top of that there was NO explanation from YouTube for the demonetization either on the dashboard or via email which always happened when they demonetized before. I checked on Twitter and it turns out that many other video creators had the same experience. For what I can piece together is that YouTube only meant to demonetize all...

Three years after the colossal failure of demonetisation the Narendra Modi government has embarked on a similar venture, the FASTag programme, this time targeting road users across the country. But just a day before the November 30 deadline, by which date all vehicles plying the highways would have been mandatorily required to affix an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag on their vehicles, the government blinked. And, like demonetisation, the design of this scheme also reflects a simpleton’s naivete. The announcement that those without the tag would be charged double the tariff at the toll gates set off a firestorm of...

PewDiePie, the most popular personality on YouTube, has announced that his livestreams will now be exclusive to competing blockchain-based platform DLive. According to Variety, DLive “promises far better economic terms for creators” than YouTube, which has been intensely criticized by most YouTube personalities over the past few years for moving away from them in favor of major corporations and television-style content. Variety reported, Tuesday, that PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, will “use DLive exclusively (for the next several months, anyway) to present weekly live-streams,” and “is slated to kick off his first official DLive stream on Sunday, April...

Old notes will be accepted at government hospitals, petrol stations and toll booths for 10 more days. A day after Prime Minister Narendra chaired a meeting to review the demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 notes and its impact, Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das on Monday announced that the now defunct currency would be accepted at government hospitals, petrol stations and toll booths till November 24. The Prime Minister’s meeting came amid continuing chaos and growing public anger across the country over limited cash availability following the surprise demonetisation of the two higher value notes. On Sunday, the cash...

The glory days of being a millionaire, billionaire and even quadzillionaire are coming to a fast end in Zimbabwe. The African country’s central bank on Monday will begin a “demonetization” program to work 100-million-dollar, 100-trillion-dollar and other eye-popping bank notes out of circulation, and swap them for clean, less zero-y U.S. dollars. For every 175 quadrillion, or 175,000 trillion, Zimbabwe dollars, locals will get $5 in exchange. For 250 trillion Zimbabwe dollars, you get $1. The country has been largely using the U.S. dollar and the South African rand since a decade of hyperinflation — it peaked at 500 billion...