Iām quite sure he usually licenses his music so I think this is one of those mistakes - you forget to take out the temp track when youāre finished editing.
āSome fellow authorā wouldnāt have lost more than the regular AJ share though, doesnāt matter if the YouTuber is famousā¦
As for the money loss, if (hypothetically) the track is stolen, while itās registered with YT content ID (like AdRev), doesnāt the profit then depend on a particular video popularity? Dispel my doubts
A YouTuber who makes a living just from YouTube ads on his videos will NEVER have a claim on there. He even has his own ad network and of course he has those ads displayed on his videos, not from AdRev. Thatās his whole business.
Well, we canāt know for sure but he makes 3-4 videos per day with plenty of music in them so I would say itās quite likely that you can forget a temp track in there when you try to get it out quickly. Itās not like a big project you would work on for weeks.
He seems like an honest enough guy who pulls in $10 million a year so Iād like to think he tries to pay for the music.
Still canāt quite envisage these high-output YT guys utilising ātempā tracks in their vids with the intention of replacing it with a purchased version. Yet I can perfectly imagine them urgently needing something to fill a segue and popping over to AJ to grab a quick, free downloadable preview - knowing full well that a rapid 4 second āblastā of music wonāt trigger any YouTube claims and prevent monetization.
Bear in mind however, Iām basing this practice purely on the countless comments left of my own YouTube channel where people have been encouraging other users to do this. Iāve lost count of the amount of times Iāve had to set them straight. That said, Iād like to think that Mr Pie has made a genuine error here.
I also thought it was more of an urgency case, as if maybe he had a ton of previews and properly licensed music mixed together on his hard drive, quickly grabbed something that sounded appropriate, couldnāt find the non-watermarked copy and not being too bothered with the watermark just left it as is, after all itās such a tiny bit. More of a āto hell with it, it will doā moment.
Well heās used two audio jungle tracks, one is watermarked, the other is not. So he does buy a licences for his AJ tracks, but probably used the preview for testing and because itās not really noticeable and forgot to replace with the purchased version. I actually did the same with a client project where I forgot to swap out the preview track with the purchased version because sometimes the watermark is really soft and not actually that noticeable unless you play it loud and listen carefully. What I suspect is he probably outsources someone to compile / do audio for his videos, so after previewing to pewdiepie and getting the go ahead someone probably forgot to replace the audio for the final upload. But anyways this is purely speculation, pewdiepie is a nutter so anything is possible.