Last week I got an unexpected letter from Tube Mogul telling me my account had been disabled. There was no warning beforehand, just an instant disable.

I contacted them about it. The video I had just uploaded was about the virtues of hiring a business virtual assistant, with an invitation to my free course on the subject.

I pointed out to them that this is information that is very popular online right now, and my information is completely free, so I couldn’t understand why that would trigger my account being disabled.

Here is the answer I got:

Hi Dave,

Send me a link to some of your videos and I’ll take a second look.  Please do keep in mind, most of our terms of service is pushed down upon us by our partner sites.

They did take a second look, after which I got this e-mail:

My apologies, but some of our video site partners complain about what they think of as a glut in content surrounding internet marketing -themed content. We never wanted to restrict access but many video sites forced our hand. If you can promise to stick to the core sites (YouTube, Yahoo, etc.) I think we can lift the ropes back up.

Thanks for understanding,
Eugene

I then asked what the “core sites” are (in addition to YouTube and Yahoo). So here is the complete list:

-YouTube
-Yahoo
-Myspace
-Metacafe
-Dailymotion

So, kiddies, the lesson here is this: If you want to promote “Internet marketing themed content”  and using Tube Mogul, you should probably just stick to these sites.

To your video marketing success!

Dave.

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