YouTube’s New Anti-Wrestling Policies

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YouTube’s New Anti-Wrestling Policies

Postby Edge Guerrero » Mon May 22, 2017 2:00 pm

Earlier this year, YouTube announced a major change in its programming guidelines that reclassified all pro wrestling content as “non-advertiser friendly”. This decision has drastically affected the potential income of channels that focus on original wrestling related videos, and the latest casualty of that mandate is UK promotion WhatCulture Pro Wrestling.

WCPW released a video early Monday morning (featured below) announcing that their free weekly series, WCPW Loaded, has been cancelled. All nine of their upcoming tapings have been shut down, and anyone who bought tickets is eligible for a full refund. Their pay-per-view events and specials, such as the ongoing Pro Wrestling World Cup, will continue on as planned.

Since its debut, WhatCulture Pro Wrestling has brought together world classic talent from all around the globe, and has released a massive amount of content completely free to the fans. Stars that have appeared on WCPW include Alberto del Rio, Pete Dunne, El Ligero, Noam Dar, Rey Mysterio, Kurt Angle, Matt Riddle, Cody Rhodes, Pentagon Jr., Will Ospreay, Mary Scurll, Drew Galloway, Moose, Trent Seven, Ethan Carter III, Broken Matt Hardy, Johny Mundo…the list goes on, and on. Every single one of these talents listed above has been featured in high quality matches released 100% free on their YouTube channel.

To give you an idea of how badly channels like WCPW have been hit, the promotion revealed that a recent match between Alberto del Rio and Rey Mysterio had only generated about $43, despite being viewed by well over one million people at the time they recorded their announcement. It has now been viewed over two million times. According to a statement made on their official Facebook page, that number represents a “reduction of around 98% in what would have been Loaded’s main source of revenue.”


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Postby Canuckster » Mon May 22, 2017 7:13 pm

Can't have normal people getting rich off youtube now can you?
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Postby Edge Guerrero » Mon May 22, 2017 8:54 pm

Canuckster wrote:Can't have normal people getting rich off youtube now can you?


- Or even keeping the business a float.
WCPW was putting hight level content, for us wrestling fans, pretty sure youtube got to make a lot of money for those match's.
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Postby robbstar » Sun May 28, 2017 5:21 pm

There obviously was an audience from Google to sell the space to. I am guessing there are lots of brands willing to pay for a heavily male 15 to 45 demographic to advertise to. Doesn't make sense at all.

But I think it will be the first of many.

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Postby Edge Guerrero » Mon May 29, 2017 3:15 pm

robbstar wrote:There obviously was an audience from Google to sell the space to. I am guessing there are lots of brands willing to pay for a heavily male 15 to 45 demographic to advertise to. Doesn't make sense at all.

But I think it will be the first of many.


- They want to castrate the warrior spirit of the male audience.
What's a better way to doo that than boycotting pro-wrestling?

They don't want kids to think for themselves, question the autoritys. Fighting for everyman right.

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Postby robbstar » Mon May 29, 2017 5:30 pm

I watched this video podcast today with Josh Barnet pretty cool.

https://youtu.be/mYbHFhtoSYk

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Postby Luigi » Fri Jun 02, 2017 9:50 pm

They are doing it to a ton of youtube channels. Its all the result of a campaign by media outlets to damage ad revenue to youtube content creators. If you keep digging though you find out the whole thing has basically been orchestrated by a guy who has designed a search filter software that he wants to sell to google and get a commission on:
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Postby Edge Guerrero » Sat Jun 03, 2017 3:36 pm

Luigi wrote:They are doing it to a ton of youtube channels. Its all the result of a campaign by media outlets to damage ad revenue to youtube content creators. If you keep digging though you find out the whole thing has basically been orchestrated by a guy who has designed a search filter software that he wants to sell to google and get a commission on:


- Yeah. Several bodybuilding channels got hit too.
I've felt pro-wrestling more, because it's the one i watch more close.

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