I've decided to start a YouTube review/news/discussion channel focusing on Snuff and Cigars. If all goes well, I'll be launching this fall. Looking for suggestions from the community. Any thoughts? By the way, "Hitsuzen, everyone knows you're an a__hole, for the love of God don't do it" is a perfectly acceptable response B-)
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Yep! I already have the channel set up, my intro finished, and am writing my "welcome to our channel" video. Only thing I can't decide is what to review first!
Another issue though, mostly relevant to Youtube. It has a bot that scans videos, and if it detects any music licensed to a major label (and even sources such as Library of Congress, believe it or not) that your account is known to not have paid royalties to, it turns off all audio in the film, BOOM, silent movie. Your best bet is to use work that has a Creative Commons license instead of an "All Rights Reserved" copyright.
I don't know if you're familiar with CC-licensed ambient music or not, but to make it easier, I own a netlabel with nearly 300 albums of CC-licensed music, ambient, drone, experimental and some oddball stuff, but you can use it on Youtube videos without getting shut down, and there's a lot of good stuff that won't crowd out your voice in a video. All free to download from archive.org. A lot of stuff to sift through, but it's highly respected sound art, and worth not getting your videos shut down. I'd be thrilled if it was used for tobacco reviews. webbedhandrecords.com or archive.org/details/webbed_hand
I don't know where most of my label's artists stand on tobacco use however, but you know I'm all for it, so the easiest approach is to start with my nearly 50 albums, recorded under various project names. The most "ambient" are from Djinnestan, Drone Wallah, Akashic Crow's Nest and Ice Guild Kaiser (all releases are linked from my discography page at cpmcdill.com) Attribution of artist/title/label is appreciated, and may go either in video end-credits or on the video's description on the Youtube page.
There's a Webbed Hand Records Youtube channel if you want to do a quick browse of examples of music from the label https://www.youtube.com/user/webbedhand
This will be the permanent channel location, BTW, so feel free to subscribe now. As soon as I have the glitch figured out, videos will start being uploaded.
Mark
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