After just 3 months of intense work generating some of the best online video English lessons, YouTube has granted Linguaspectrum a partnership. What this means is that my hard work has been vindicated and my YouTube channel has now been successfully integrated into my website. The experience of switching from Linguaspectrum.com to Linguaspectrum’s YouTube channel is now seamless.
From my research on the web it appea
rs that not only is a YouTube partnership the Holy Grail for YouTubers, but getting a partnership normally takes from 12 to 24 months. Yet Linguaspectrum has done it in three months.
There are reports of people applying for a partnership and having to wait months to be told no. I suspect that these people are the ones who ignore the automatic channel assessment at YouTube that always seems to tell you that your channel does not meet its minimum criteria and that to apply would be futile waste of time. It also warns that applicants who are unsuccessful will not be allowed to reapply for two months.
I had been getting this message every time I looked at the partner application link. I did research, but nobody seems to know how many subscribers or channel views you need to be accepted for a partnership. All I can say for certain is that I got a partnership with 764 subscribers, 9259 channel views and 53173 video views.
My advice for getting a YouTube partnership is to create the most interesting and engaging content you can, create more of it every few days, tell as many people as possible that your content exists.
Posted under Teaching, Technology
Author: Richard : November 13, 2009
Dear Richard,
A link to your excellent site has been placed on our language education links page:
http://abacus-es.com/education_linkslanguage.html
I expect you will not be surprised to hear that yours is one of very few English education sites that is not riddled with usage errors. It certainly deserves a link.
We also teach traditional and online classes and feel that some cross-pollination can be mutually beneficial. We are not directly in competition with you as our classes are primarily for homeschoolers and our English classes focus specifically on college preparatory and formal scholarly English. See http://abacus-es.com and http://abacus-es.com/sat/
If you are interested in collaboration, we will be glad to add links to your pages in our site, facebook pages, squidoo, digg, and other social networking sites in return for reciprocal consideration.
Have you tried using WiZiQ for online classes? It offers an interface superior to Skype and requires no software installation.
I hope we may confer further,
Kim