VOX YOUTUBE ADPOCALYPSE UPDATE

High-profile channels complained that YouTube's copyright claim system is being used to abuse creators.

VOX YOUTUBE ADPOCALYPSE UPDATE

Patrick didn't immediately respond to INSIDER's request for an update on the situation.

Patrick explained his position that Ally owed the creators what they had made regardless of its own inability to make back what it had loaned Defy Media, and reiterated that small channels were losing out on their essential livelihoods because of the involved parties' failure to deliver the ad earnings. The video has been viewed almost 6 million times.Īlmost a month later, on February 14, Patrick uploaded another video about the situation, claiming that Ally, the bank that seized Defy Media's funds, had expressed an inability to deliver the ad money to the channels. On January 24, Game Theory's Matthew Patrick (MatPat) uploaded a video detailing his claim that Defy Media owed at least $1.7 million to over 50 creators, including himself, in ad money that he says was never passed along before or after the company's dissolution. Defy Media collapsed, and Matthew Patrick accused it of taking $1.7 million from its network of YouTubers in the process.ĭefy Media, a YouTube channel collective representing over 50 channels, including the Smosh property and popular video game commentary channel Game Theory, first made headlines in November 2018 when it collapsed.

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