awesome thank you for the read!!

depends what you can show. if it came from the youtube audio library you got an mp3 and nothing else, no licence file, no receipt, no page listing what you took, so "the audio library" is a claim rather than evidence.

8 to 12 a month is where the VO bill starts to bite. 30,000 credits is about 33 minutes of narration and per-character billing charges again for every retake, so the second pass on a script costs the same as the first.

worth flagging for anyone reading this on the free plan: it asks you to put elevenlabs.io or 11.ai in the title of everything you publish. not the description, not the end credits, the title, monetised or not.

the comparison that decides it for most people is subscription vs api. a tier is a bucket, the api is a meter. the same narration can be 45 cents metered or 6 dollars as a tier, and doubling your output moves one of those numbers and not the other.

the gap that keeps this going is that the disclosure rules are about the video, not the thumbnail, so a channel can label nothing and still front an AI image.

point 2 is closer to existing than the other two. synthetic voice is inside the altered-content disclosure, it just is not broken out separately in what viewers see, so the information is collected and then not shown to you.

I think the hold is on the payout side, not on earning. the revenue keeps accruing against the account while it is frozen, so annoying rather than lost, assuming the reactivation goes through.

Any tips on getting started with digital marketing with a platform you created? Hard without data and trust on something new.🤔