Rurouni
Veteran
I want to ask how YouTube works in terms of monetization. I know that you can choose to monetize your channel or not, but can a big channel actually opt out from monetization? I imagine a video with little view isn't going to cause much harm in terms of operation. But if a video get 1m or even 10m views, can the owner of the video still turn of monetization?
I ask this because as you guys provably know, there are this thing called YouTube RED that made ESPN pulled their videos (and channels?) from YouTube because they can't put their content in subscription service. But can ESPN opt out from monetization thus their content shoulf always be available for free and they probably wouldn't get any money from the subscriber which in effect they aren't using the subscription service?
Btw, I don't want a debate about whether RED is good or bad, I just want to know about the above question.
Hopefully someone can answer that because my google-fu is failing me.
I ask this because as you guys provably know, there are this thing called YouTube RED that made ESPN pulled their videos (and channels?) from YouTube because they can't put their content in subscription service. But can ESPN opt out from monetization thus their content shoulf always be available for free and they probably wouldn't get any money from the subscriber which in effect they aren't using the subscription service?
Btw, I don't want a debate about whether RED is good or bad, I just want to know about the above question.
Hopefully someone can answer that because my google-fu is failing me.