Youtube Battlefront: The costs of CoS

Youtube Battlefront: The costs of CoS

How much does it cost to advertise on Youtube.com?

• YouTube General: $50K or greater spend on YouTube within 90 days.
• YouTube Brand Channels: $200K or greater spend on YouTube only.
• YouTube Contests: $500K or greater spend on YouTube only.
• YouTube Homepage Roadblock: $175K/day flat fee plus a $50K incremental spend on Google and YouTube over 90 days ($225K or greater total spend). Premium flight dates may require a higher initial flat fee.

According to my calculations, the Church of Scientology is spending, about US$6.97 million PER MONTH to win the hearts and minds of Youtube subscribers and viewers.

Let's keep this up, gents and lasses
:fuckyou:

We're making L.RH :lrhcries: cry.

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Yep...bankrupting the CoS by keeping new suckers out and making them spend gazillions on ads.

Teehee

We just need some exes to sue the shit out of them over the freewinds failboat and they wont have a penny soon enough :fuckyou:

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Desperate cult is desperate. Wow that is way more than I thought even.

YouTube is selling some advertising right there. :whistle:

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Not to mention the manpower OSA spends having their peons trolling on Youtube saying crap about how they loooves Scientology and all to any anti-Scientology stuff.

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We ARE hurting them by FORCING them to do that

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In Hubbard zombie land - they think it will really work. Many lulz are had :wink:

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drop in the ocean

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Fixed. Jewtube/Google might demand more money for dealing with Anonymous.
Also, :woot:

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Also, if that Aussie billionaire turns on them, they are screwed.

Wonder how Nancy Cartwright feels about her 10 mil now?

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Factor in their Google-search ads, Facebook and Myspace ads and it's a huge sum...they are enraged over Anon and hemorrhaging bullion in an attempt to own the internets. Let em.

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So, ok, it is kinda obvious why Youtube keeps following orders from CoS...

But , someday they will realize that CoS is paying them BECAUSE OF US!!
(they owe us biiiiiigtime!!)

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Let's wait and see if they actually pay up. ;O)

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hahaha. This shows that they know they are up against something pretty serious.

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Are you freaking kidding me?
Is it really that much?

Think of all the people they could have provided food for, think of all the shelters for people that could have been built (habitat for humanity or something) think of all the actual good they could have done with that money...

think about how they could have given staff and OSA huge pay raises and made their lives a little bit better than one 'luxurious' jack in the box meal per month.

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The first $ci respons would be: "Contact Clearwater, we don't handle the bills."

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Molly has a point that maybe needs to be made on signage: What kind of a church spends 6 million dollars a month to advertise on Youtube? And why?

Few things piss John Q Public off more than stupid money being spent stupidly.

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Death of a thousand cuts

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Superb post. Over time these costs add up.

If COS is forced to run the ads as a matter of course, that effectively ups their overhead.

Let's keep up the pressure and escalate this further.

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where did you get those pricing figures?

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Wait, they actually pay their staff?

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No, but their labour resources are finite.

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Here: How much does it cost to advertise on Youtube?

• YouTube General: $16,667++ p.m.
• YouTube Brand Channels: $200K One time payment
• YouTube Homepage Roadblock: $6.75 million++ p.m.

According to the link, rates are billable every 90 days.
Therefore, Church of Scientology, come July, will be getting a very nice bill of at least:
US$20,300,000.00 plus taxes

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Silly Scientologists don't understand how the internets work. The cost effectiveness of their campaign is hilarious, for us at least. Think about our protests. We spend what, a couple hundred at most per protest? Anyone out there care to do a ratio of (dollars they spend)/(dollars we spend)?

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I am sure with that full package the cult gets a price break, however even if it was only two million a month, a 3rd of the above estimate, it is amazing.

wasting all that money to trample free speech.
just think of the good they could do if thats what they were about.

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Man it's pretty expensive to get away with breaking youtube terms of service

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she probably has no clue as to what its being spent on. She's in the same narcissistic bubble/Theta trap Kirstie Alley is in.

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More and more finite by the day. Who'll be the next to go? Terryeo or bgodley?

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Is it really true? I can't believe that they spend soooooooo much money on this. But if it's true, I am very happy about it.

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In 1995, IIRC, Co$ had a yearly income of $300 million, plus roughly $318 million in real estate.

So Anonymous has forced them to chip off about $81 million/year, already, or a bit less than a third of their income, plus lost income from people who are blowing, from days they have shut the orgs down, from court fees and PIs...

Suddenly Graham Berry's figure that Co$ income is down 50% in April doesn't seem ludicrous. Holy shit we're badass.

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Why don't you give us the sauce of these figures?

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If that's roughly right, COS spending increase on online advertising is a major development.

To be sure Anonymous will have to keep fighting the propaganda war online, for fear the barrage of COS ads might actually work.

However given the economics of the situation Anon only needs to play for a draw.

So long as criticism online continues effectively to neutralize COS propaganda piece for piece, Anon comes out ahead.

Inevitably COS advertising will result in some extra revenue from the new recruits that ads attract. Let's all keep up the pressure to minimize this effect and ensure it's negative gain overall for the COS!

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Lurk moar. The link to Youtube.com "How to" is 8 posts above you... :frustration:

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NO SHI... thanks...

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How come my calculations are only 250K?
How you got to 6mil???

They had ads for 3 months 50K(now gone).
Plus now the channel 200K.
50 + 200 = 250K

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Look closer... Its (175K + 50K) ++ PER DAY, Youtube doesn't shut down so for everyday you see "Get the Facts" its

• 
  30 days x (175+50) = 6,750K

And this does not even factor the in the click-through prices CoS is paying Youtube everytime somebody clicks through to see the CoS YT Channel.

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Don't be so sure that YouTube is bleeding Scientology dry. YouTube gives a lot of benefits to groups with 501(c)(3) tax exemption, which Scientology has. As long as they say they won't talk about religion, and only stick to issues like human rights and drug abuse, they might be getting at least some of this stuff for free.

Source:
YouTube - Nonprofit Program

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1. wtf is "YouTube Homepage Roadblock" ---

and

2. i am tired. can someone explain the maths

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Quoting from the link:

Program Requirements

Organizations applying for the Nonprofit program must meet the following criteria.

* Must be U.S.-based nonprofit with IRS 501(c)(3) tax status
* May not be religious or political in nature
* May not be focused primarily on lobbying for political or policy change
* Commercial organizations, credit-counseling services, donation middleman services, fee-based organizations, and nonprofit portals are not eligible for the program


You might be right, but it does say that the _organization applying_ may not be religious in nature, not the advertising message.

In any event, whether COS is getting its ads on the cheap or not, that doesn't make a difference so far as Anons are concerned (practically speaking). Either way the ads have to be countered somehow.

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Did CoS had a roadblock on YouTube?
I never see any CoS roadblock.

Do you know what roadblock is?

Example of roadblock:
Home page > banner says "I"
You click on some other page > banner says > "suck"
You click any other page > banner says > "cocks"

roadblocking is a cool concept of tracking individual user and displaying advertizements which span across few pages.
In the future we might see roadblocks span across different websites.
iMedia Connection: Grab Greater Mindshare with Roadblocking

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Does ANYONE click banner ads on websites these days? I know I don't. Hell, I don't even SEE the motherfuckers...I didn't notice the CoS ads on Enturb until someone made a thread about them.

I don't use any adblockers, except the one in my brain...and I suspect more and more people have one.