Comments on: How to get a branded YouTube channel for your institution in just a few easy steps

By: Mike Hamilton

Mike Hamilton — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:36:16 +0000

When I was applying for a channel for BSC, I read this in the terms and conditions: “you…agree not to use YouTube’s name or trademark in any news release, public announcement, advertisement or other publicity, or disclose any of the terms of the YouTube Nonprofit program to any third party, without the prior written consent of YouTube,”

What does this mean? Can we tell visitors to our Web site about our YouTube channel? What kind of restrictions does this place on us?

By: Karine Joly

Karine Joly — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:29:09 +0000

Thanks for sharing the info, Jenny. That’s kind of new and a very good news for institutions not based in the US or Canada.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:03:59 +0000

We’ve had a YouTube channel for a few months now and were investigating being a YouTube partner so we applied. A few days later we were told we were accepted into the YouTube Education Partner Program which is the Non Profit one mentioned in the post (one which we had no idea about).

Benefits are: “You will now find advanced branding options in Account > Branding Options. Your channel is also enabled for long-form playback to accommodate lectures and special events which have proven to be the most useful and popular education content on YouTube.”

We are an Australian university so I gather its worldwide.

By: Greyman

Greyman — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:50:46 +0000

Why does YouTube exempt other countries? Surely this is not difficult to setup, legitimacy issues should be no problem they are properly structured like a non-profits.

http://www.thegreyman.org rescues children from trafficking and exploitation of children in South East Asia. All we want on our YouTube channel is to enhance our branding. Is that too much trouble for YouTube to enable?

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By: Romesh Fernando

Romesh Fernando — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:53:46 +0000

We were denied as well. I’m assuming because we are “religious”. Wondering why other religious institutions were accepted…

By: Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:55:28 +0000

What are you using to add closed captions to the YouTube videos?

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By: Mary Beth Kurilko

Mary Beth Kurilko — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:23:40 +0000

I applied for a non-profit channel under a TUAlumni account and it was denied. I received the following form email response. I did write back for further clarification, but have not heard a response.

Temple meets all of their criteria, so I’m stumped to why we didn’t get accepted. We don’t yet have any videos on the channel, but I didn’t think that would be a problem.

Any thoughts on this would be great!

Hello,

Thanks for your interest in the YouTube Nonprofit Program. Unfortunately, your organization doesn’t meet the qualifications at this time. Organizations that are not eligible for the program include the following types:

* Organizations who do not have 501(c)(3) federal tax status
* Organizations outside of the U.S.
* Organizations that are either religious, or political in nature
* Organizations focused primarily on lobbying for political or policy change.

YouTube reserves the right to reject applications to any organization, and selections are made at YouTube’s sole discretion. All decisions regarding program recipients are final.

While you did not meet the criteria for the YouTube Nonprofit Program, we encourage you to investigate other great Google products that are available to nonprofits at no cost.

Thanks for your interest and best of luck on YouTube and beyond.

Sincerely,
The YouTube Nonprofit Team