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Hello, everyone.
I come to you today looking for a bit of feedback regarding a system that I think would work very well on YTNet; the website I recently acquired.

For those of you that don’t know, YTNet is a place where server owners can get in contact with YouTubers to play on their server. It allows the server owners to fill out a form and that will be sent to the YouTubers emails, so they get a fast response time and have an easy way to contact Creators. That’s about it, pretty simple right now. This system is not managed or dealt with by YTNet and I think that would be a great thing to change. During this process, you should never be able to get any of the YouTuber’s contact details, so everything is done on-site.

My system is as follows:
Rather than Creators (YouTubers) posting a flat price for their services, they post a CPM (Cost per mille / price per every thousand views) price such as $10. This means that if a Creator makes a video for you that gets 10,000 views, you should pay them $100 (10,000 / 1,000 * 10).

After you create an account on our website you are able to fill out a form in able to contact a Creator (YouTuber) stating things like how many episodes, IP, etc. The Creator is then able to get back to you, the client, through the on-site private message system with any information and to finalise the deal. This includes sending the money to YTNet.

The way we calculate the cost of a video is based on the number of views the Creator has. We take the average number of views of the last three videos seven days after they have been published. For example, if a Creator has 200,000 views on a video, but after the first week they only had 100,000, only these views are counted. We then find 10% of this number, in this case, 10,000, and add it to the number of views. We do this to encourage the Creator to make a higher quality video for you, the Client. TYNet will add another 10% to the price and this money is to ensure a safe and scam free environment, as we will be liable for any charge backs that take place.

The video that Creators send to you is private and only for you until you agree to have it posted. From the time it is posted to exactly 7 days after, is when the views are counted and calculated into the amount that they are paid. If the video receives 80,000 views instead of the expected $100,000, you get $300 back (110,000-80,000 = 30,000 views). It is important to note here that during the entire time between you paying and the video being released for a week YTNet hold on to the money. After this week is up YTNet will send the Creator the money they deserve and refund any money to the Client.

This system may sound a little complex, but it has many upsides. It can essentially guarantee that the Creators and Clients cannot possibly scam each other. Also, I think it would be beneficial to rename YTNet to AdvertiseMC. This opens the possibility for us advertise on other platforms such as Twitch, Instagram, etc.

As, obviously, I can’t explain everything in a single scenario, I would love to answer any questions you have about this and include them in my post.

Thank you for reading and I hope to receive some valuable insights.
Mick
 
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I think you should get the site revamped. A complete new website instead of Wordpress and instead of smaller youtubers bigger ones.
We're looking to have a mixture of everything. Small youtubers, large ones, something to cater for everyone.

I am looking into a complete site-redesign with this rebranding. Here's a concept I made:
http://i.imgur.com/Tk9Lhi9.jpg

what about view botting
We carefully check through each of our applicants and make sure they are reputable. If they are to view-bot their videos it will be pretty obvious and they will be removed from the website. Great question!
 

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I have been looking to purchase this website for a while, but I didn't have the appropriate funding to acquire it when it was for sale. Instead of making it just for Minecraft server owners to contact YouTubers, make it so anyone can join and people can contact YouTubers for any reason.
 

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I have been looking to purchase this website for a while, but I didn't have the appropriate funding to acquire it when it was for sale. Instead of making it just for Minecraft server owners to contact YouTubers, make it so anyone can join and people can contact YouTubers for any reason.
As of right now I wanted to focus on the business side of things by making it simply for people to contact YouTubers to do a video for them. We are going to be looking into doing more expansions in the future if all of this works out including a l33t mc-market competitor forum. Having the ability to contact YouTubers for any reason would probably make larger youtubers less inclined to become a Creator with us.[DOUBLEPOST=1471006856][/DOUBLEPOST]
This site has so much potential, good luck with it Mick ;D!
I may contact you in the near future regarding 'Chargeback Support' if that's alright with you :)
 

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As of right now I wanted to focus on the business side of things by making it simply for people to contact YouTubers to do a video for them. We are going to be looking into doing more expansions in the future if all of this works out including a l33t mc-market competitor forum. Having the ability to contact YouTubers for any reason would probably make larger youtubers less inclined to become a Creator with us.[DOUBLEPOST=1471006856][/DOUBLEPOST]
I may contact you in the near future regarding 'Chargeback Support' if that's alright with you :)
I know do a video for them, but not just for Minecraft. If you wanted to contact a CSGO YouTuber, you should be able to.
l33t mc-market competitor forum
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I know do a video for them, but not just for Minecraft. If you wanted to contact a CSGO YouTuber, you should be able to
Minecraft is a community and industry that I know, so I think that most success on the site will be reached by starting with something I understand and then we expand into other niches.
 

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You mgiht add some more domains (ytnet.com, .net) in the future.
One of the reasons to move from YTNet to AdvertiseMC is so that we can get all of the common domains. I have purchased AdvertiseMC.com, .net, and .org right now so that no meanies can steal them. :)
 
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