{"id":363110,"date":"2017-10-19T07:27:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T07:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=363110"},"modified":"2017-10-19T07:27:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T07:27:56","slug":"youtube-star-casey-neistat-criticises-video-sites-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/youtube-star-casey-neistat-criticises-video-sites-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube star Casey Neistat criticises video site’s leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of YouTube’s most influential vloggers has chastised the service’s leaders, claiming they are failing many of their most popular video creators.<\/p>\n
Specifically,\u00a0Casey Neistat criticised the way the platform\u00a0had made it impossible for some videos to generate advertising revenue, without clearly explaining the rules to its community.<\/p>\n
One of his own videos – an interview with Indonesia’s president – was temporarily “demonetised” last week.<\/p>\n
YouTube has said it is listening.<\/p>\n
“We watched Casey’s video and appreciate him and the wider community voicing their concerns,” a spokeswoman told the BBC.<\/p>\n
“We know this has been a difficult few months, and we’re working hard to improve our systems. We’re making progress, but we know there is a lot more to do.”<\/p>\n
‘Existential threat’<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr Neistat has more than eight million subscribers on YouTube, who have signed up to be alerted when he posts. He has also struck a multi-million-dollar deal to create content for CNN on the platform.<\/p>\n He is normally viewed as being one of the leading champions of the site.<\/p>\n But in a video posted on Tuesday, he said he felt compelled to speak out because the level of upset among creators posed an “existential threat to YouTube’s entire business”.<\/p>\n