Warning to video producers, ADREV and the death of forcefollow.

The only reason why I am posting this is for the sake of others who are trying to use Youtube as a way to promote their content.

My youtube channel "forcefollow" had 8100 subscribers and over 8 million views. Off and on I have had to deal with click bombs, character assassination attempts and other nonsense that people dream up. My adsense account was dropped twice for reasons I still do not understand. Recently I was approached by a company named Adrev to restore my channel as a partner. Bad move!!! They ended up claiming ownership of my videos.

I am at fault for this partially. I didn't do enough research on them. They are fraudulent. They tried to lay claim to all of my content. I would have just left it for the benefit of players who have benefited from them, but I did not want the name of my favorite charity to be attached to these scumbags. Over the past 5 years I have thrown in a brief plug for St. Jude's Childrens Research Hospital. This is too good of a charity for them to be associated with these now tainted videos.

I have all of my content on a channel called CueStudent. The first sign of any nonsense on this channel I will cancel it as well.

To the 2 lurkers on this board that have worked to screw me I have good news for you, THE CHANNEL IS DEAD. All the money I ever realized from the videos went back in to the equipment that made it better over the last 3 years. In fact I am very much in the red for it.

In other news my after school program is dead thanks to budget cuts.

I would like to thank everyone on this board who have helped me with both projects there are more than I can list.

If you are looking for good news you will not find it on this thread.

Thanks again to everyone who has supported me.

God Bless,
Marcus

CreeDo said:

That's truly crappy news. I've watched several of your videos, never realized you were the one behind it. How do you know 2 lurkers on the board are involved? Ever reach an actual human at google/youtube to try to straighten this out?

Best of luck with the new channel. You'll want to update your signature line.

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Believe me I know. Long twisted story I would rather not rehash.

Blue Hog ridr said:

Maybe you could explain it a little further Marcus.

I don't understand what Adsense is and why they could close down your channel when all the material in your videos belongs to you.

Were you able to wipe out your videos on your channel so they are no use to AdRev?

With the video posted, obviously scammers. I doubt they will go too far before they are shut down themselves.

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I have no confidence in Google's willingness to resolve this matter for a peon like me. Adsense is googles advertisement revenue service. Adsense is how you make money from youtube. I wiped out all of my videos on forcefollow so they are no further use to Adrev. I do not want my name connected with virus filled links. Like most things in this world great things like youtube are taken and twisted by really horrible people.