BRAND BAN
YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money on channel that’s been raking in ‘£1m a YEAR with 6m subscribers’
YOUTUBE has suspended Russell Brand's channel from making money following allegations of rape and sex attacks.
Experts say the 48-year-old was likely getting to £4,000 per video - which could see him rake in around £1million a year.
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A bombshell expose at the weekend saw Brand accused of horror crimes by four women - which he denies.
But in the wake of the claims more alleged victims have contacted with further accusations against the star.
BBC and Channel 4 have now launched an urgent probe into the allegations.
The Met Police is also urging any further potential victims to come forward after revealing it was investigating claims from 2003 after a woman reported an alleged crime.
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Brand has vehemently denied the accusations - and took to YouTube to do so before they were made public.
He told his 6.6m subscribers that while he was "promiscuous" all his relationships were consensual.
The video sharing giant has today said it has suspended the monetisation of the 48-year-old's channel for “violating our Creator Responsibility policy”.
In a statement, YouTube said: "We have suspended monetisation on Russell Brand's channel for violating our Creator Responsibility policy.
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"If a creator's off-platform behaviour harms our users, employees or ecosystem, we take action to protect the community."
The company said that it had suspended the channel from the YouTube Partner Program "following serious allegations against the creator".
It continued: "This action means the channel is no longer able to monetise on YouTube."
The ban applied to all channels that may be owned or operated by the 48-year-old, it added.
Sara McCorquodale, the chief executive of the social media analysis agency CORQ, said Brand’s YouTube channel would have been raking in a decent sum.
She told the : “He is most likely making £2,000 to £4,000 per video, not taking into account any affiliate deals and brand sponsorships that might be running in the background."
If he were to make five videos a week, every week, this would see him make around £1m a year.
Brand still had adverts from companies including Currys and Masterclass running yesterday.
However, taxi app FreeNow said it had requested that its adverts no longer appear on the star's channel.
It comes after a former model claimed Brand tailed her through the streets demanding sex for what “felt like a lifetime”.
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She said: “He’s like the Terminator. You can’t get rid of him.”
A source also claimed Brand's father-in-law begged his daughter Laura Gallacher to end her relationship with the shamed comedian.
Russell Brand's denial in full
Hello there, you awakening wonders.
Now this isn't the usual type of video we make on this channel where we critique, attack and undermine the news in all its corruption because in this story I am the news.
I have received two extremely disturbing letters - well a letter and an email.
One from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper, listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks as well as some pretty stupid stuff - like my community festival should be stopped, that I shouldn't be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel.
But amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque, attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute. These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream - when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I have written about extensively in my books I was very very promiscuous
Now during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent. And I'm being transparent about it now as well.
And to see that transparency metastasized into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question is there another agenda at play?
Particularly when we have seen coordinated media attacks before - like with Joe Rogan when he dared to take a medicine that the mainstream media didn't approve of and we saw a spate of headlines from media outlets across the world using the same language.
I’m aware that you guys have been saying in the comments for a while ‘Watch out Russell, they are coming for you, you are getting too close to the truth, Russell Brand did not kill himself’.
I know that a year ago there was a spate of articles ‘Russell Brand is a conspiracy theorist, Russell Brand’s right wing’.
I’m aware of news media making phone calls, sending letters to people I know for ages and ages.
It’s been clear to me or at least it feels to me like there's a serious and concerted agenda to control these kind of spaces and these kind of voices and I mean my voice along with your voice.
I don't mind them using my books and my stand up to talk about my promiscuous consensual conduct in the past. What I seriously refute are these very very serious criminal allegations.
Also it’s worth mentioning that there are witnesses whose evidence directly contradicts the narratives that these two mainstream media outlets are trying to construct apparently in what seems to me to be a coordinated attack
Now I don't want to get into this any further because of the serious nature of the allegations, but I feel like I'm being attacked and plainly they are working very closely together
We are obviously going to look into this matter because it’s very, very serious. In the meantime I want you to stay close, stay awake but more important than any of that if you can, please, stay free.
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