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My original plan was to upload videos about 5 minutes long on YouTube and editing the same videos down to about 1 1/2 minutes on DTube. Now that I'm demonetized on YT, I really don't know what to do. I was thinking of just using YT to upload 20 second previews of my DT videos and link it. I could also keep uploading on YT until I meet the monetization requirements but I don't trust Google Inc. at all.

Yes, maybe a good idea, try out DTube, you won't be disappointed

Yeah. I'm just gonna use my existing YouTube channel as advertisements for DTube/Steemit. Count my losses and move on. I might be able to sue Google because I paid to promote my videos with AdWords under totally different monetization terms.

I think there is a possibility with google adwords to promote Dtube channels aswell

I thought about that, but I won't do business with Google out of spite.