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TheArcheaon's avatar
TheArcheaon
Honored Guest
12 years ago

Can you join more than one partnership on YouTube?

I've been contacted by a really small partnership company called pipelineshockstudios (http://pipelineshockstudios.com/)
and they want me to join their company (how ever they're really small at the moment and they seem alright) but I want to join some bigger partners (but I've always heard, that you have to start off small in order to become a big deal) on YouTube. I'm trying really hard to get my YouTube channel off the ground and its doing really well (because the fact my channel is only 2 months old I have 24 subscribers and over 2800 views.)

I blocked his name for safe reasons.

Heres their message

" Hey my name is T-------------- P----------, I am CEO of Pipeline Shock Studios. ive seen your videos and was wondering if you thought about joining a network? we are not like machinima who claims to be a Multi Channel Network. we on the other hand are a Online Video Network Studio. this is what makes us different then the others.
1. no perpetual contracts!

2. we always will keep our flat rate payment the same no matter the channel.

3. No platform dependence!

4. Proper advertising

we are vstart up company so we are new n with 5 different video sharing Platforms like YouTube so that's 5 different audiences you can reach(3 international, 2 US centric) along with our website and YouTube. please reply back as soon as possible letting us know if you are or not interested"

2 Replies

  • Deimos's avatar
    Deimos
    Honored Guest
    12 years ago
    I've been on Youtube for years. The ability to have multiple partnerships depends on the partnerships themselves. Several partnerships have a no-competition clause, which forbids you from being partners with other services that have the same intention (I.E., a streaming service that shows strictly game playthroughs compared to another that does the same thing). Some won't even let you be partners with things as stupid as "you can't be partners with any musician for your intro unless they are partners with us."

    Likewise, you will have to research whatever other partnership's policies you would like to be partners with. Maybe your offered partnership may be fine with you being partnered with someone else, but the second partnership may not.

    If I were you, I would reply asking the terms of said partnership. Ask specifically if you will be allowed to be partners with people who aren't partners with them, and if not, how strict the policy is. Every group of people has different policies, so you will have to do some research.

    And be warned, make absolute sure that you're O.K. with the policies that partnership has if you're signing a contract. If you break any rules of the contract, you may be terminated from the partnership, and possibly fined.

    On that note, I wish you luck in your new partnership.
  • TheArcheaon's avatar
    TheArcheaon
    Honored Guest
    12 years ago
    "Deimos" wrote:
    I've been on Youtube for years. The ability to have multiple partnerships depends on the partnerships themselves. Several partnerships have a no-competition clause, which forbids you from being partners with other services that have the same intention (I.E., a streaming service that shows strictly game playthroughs compared to another that does the same thing). Some won't even let you be partners with things as stupid as "you can't be partners with any musician for your intro unless they are partners with us."

    Likewise, you will have to research whatever other partnership's policies you would like to be partners with. Maybe your offered partnership may be fine with you being partnered with someone else, but the second partnership may not.

    If I were you, I would reply asking the terms of said partnership. Ask specifically if you will be allowed to be partners with people who aren't partners with them, and if not, how strict the policy is. Every group of people has different policies, so you will have to do some research.

    And be warned, make absolute sure that you're O.K. with the policies that partnership has if you're signing a contract. If you break any rules of the contract, you may be terminated from the partnership, and possibly fined.

    On that note, I wish you luck in your new partnership.


    Thanks for the information, very informative! I'm not going with Pipeline. I'm going to aim for another partnership.
    Oculus Forums seriously needs a +Rep system >_<