YouTube doesn’t like Canadian money

Money can’t buy you love, but it can buy you more exposure on YouTube. If you’re American that is.

YouTube has what they call Promoted Videos, which are basically videos that the creators have paid to have promoted on the site. For as little as 10 cents per view you can have YouTube put your video in their Promoted Videos section and it’ll basically be seen by as many people as you can afford to show it to.

But for some strange reason, they won’t let Canadians do it. When someone like me goes to the advertising page they get a message that says “At this time we only support users in the US, but rest assured we’re working on supporting your location soon.” Why they’ve chosen to not make that feature available outside of the states is beyond me.  YouTube is owned by Google, and Google is fine with taking my money if I want to do pay-per-click advertising on their search engine, so why wouldn’t they be ok with it in their video site?

On the bright side, I guess it goes to show that my videos are in fact pretty popular considering a lot of bigger YouTubers would definitely be taking advantage of the Promoted Videos option.  But I still hope that soon enough they’ll make it something that the rest of us can do as well in order to compete fairly for those YouTube views and get ourselves as much exposure as possible.  If we’re willing to pay for it, they should take our money, especially since reports claim that YouTube is actually losing money every year!

What do you think? Is it worth paying 10 cents per view to get your videos seen more on YouTube?

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