Paintball Magazine Paintball Media Magazine July 2019 | Page 110

Guns, gun parts &
related products
Examples: Handguns, rifles, shotguns,
hunting guns, functioning antique
guns, airsoft guns, paintball guns, bb
guns, 3D-printed guns
There is a war of ideals waging in the
world, and you likely don’t even realize it
is affecting paintball. Did you know that
if you own a paintball related company,
you aren’t allowed to buy advertising on
adsense/adwords (Google’s advertising
platform) as google has determined
paintball is a dangerous product or
service)
https://support.google.com/
adwordspolicy/answer/6014299?hl=en
This has been going on for years, and we
are seeing the effect on our local fields
now as more social media outlets are
following Google’s lead with their own
types of bans.
Let me tell you a little story that I witnessed
firsthand years ago. I make content for
Youtube, and I had a Facebook account
and followed Tippmann Sports on
Facebook. They had around 170,000
people like me who followed them at
the time from all over the world. One day
Tippmann posted one of my youtube
videos on their page. I didn’t know what
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happened, but I was eating dinner when
all of a sudden my youtube notifications
blew up on my phone as in 10 minutes
I got 20,000+ views from all over the
world on that video with subscribers and
comments coming in every second. It
was crazy! Google’s Adsense looked at
that huge influx of advertising worldwide
and figured I was gaming the system and
literally banned me from Adsense over
this a month later… Which is a lifetime
ban and you can’t appeal it… All because
social media worked as it was originally
designed. After a few years they invited me
back into the system as my videos were so
popular and they wanted to make money
off of them, so clearly a lifetime ban isn’t
if they can make money off of your work!
Tippmann has posted many of my videos
over the years since, and they never have
the same response that the first one they
promoted did because Facebook started
throttling what you see from pages you
“like”! Plus if you post a Youtube video
on Facebook, Facebook will decrease
the reach as they don’t like to promote
Youtube content. Only facebook content
is promoted for a price.