Friday 24 October 2014

Maker Gen denies unlink, leaves advertisements on, continues to earn from my content

A few days ago I requested to be unlinked from the MakerGen network as they have accused my account of "suspicious activity". I notified them in the support ticket that I no longer want to be part of their network and asked kindly to be unlinked as my channel has grown to the point where I can partner with YouTube directly. 

As of today, advertisements remain active on all videos, earnings are still updating on the YouTube analytics (today made $14 for them). Maker Gen provided non payment, no human communication and declines me from leaving their network.

See image below.



I am highly considering a class action lawsuit at this point. I know there are many people affected by this so I ask everyone who has been affected by Maker Studios (aka MakerGen, RPM Network, etc) to please come forward and leave a comment below. If we can get a large amount of people I will reach out to all of you so that we can claim what is rightfully ours.

Wednesday 22 October 2014

MakerGen aka. RPMNetwork & Maker Studios will steal your earnings they are scammers

I have decided to blog about this horrid company because they have stolen about 2 grand from me over the past 2 months and continue to do so by keeping me locked into their network and displaying advertisements on my videos without providing payment.

In 2012 I created a dance tutorials YouTube channel, to this day it is approximately 2 years old. When I originally started it, I could not partner with YT since I was very small so I decided to join RPM Network which was recommended to me by a user on the YTtalk.com forums. They never helped me grow, this was something I had to do on my own while they took a 40% cut of my earnings (this was hard to swallow but I looked at it as a short term thing).  The account to this date is not very huge but earns anywhere from $4 dollars a day UP TO $70 in the winter months. After having a solid establishment with Maker Gen/RPM Network for over 1.5 years they finally shit the bed. At the end of September, I was excepting a payment of approximately $700 ish dollars which never ended up coming through. The dashboard shows the amount as "paid out" which is obviously not true. It took weeks to get a single response, I even got duplicated copy/pasted emails from a supposed "Melissa" and "Lawrence". After 22 days of non responses today I get a message saying that my account is suspicious and that I will not be receiving any money... yet my account continues to display Ads and earnings generated in YouTube's Analytics.


The staff moderates the forums heavily and will delete any posts that bash their crooked company (even if its truthful). The people they employ from the forums are liars and made up excuses for non payments throughout the 1st until the 15th to stall people from complaining!


Cole notes:

-You will never receive an email from a human being if you talk to their royalties department.
-You will not see a last name for any individual who works for Maker Studios.
-Maker Studios will not pay your owed earnings if they don't want to.
-Maker Studios will leave your contract active and account connected to their network while continuing to EARN them money while NOT paying you out.

Sorry for the rant, I had to write this and expose this shady company. I will be partnering directly with YouTube on my new account since MakerGen will NOT unlink my account from their scam network.


STAY AWAY FROM MAKER STUDIOS, MAKER GEN AKA RPM NETWORK AT ALL COST.


Here's a snapshot of my "suspicious analytics" according to Maker Gen. Just so you can see exactly what they are talking about.