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Music video by 2Pac performing I Wonder If Heaven Got A Ghetto. (C) 1997 Interscope Records
#2Pac #IWonderIfHeavenGotAGhetto #Vevo #HipHop #OfficialMusicVideo
Ascendents.net music video stream royalties are recorded in ~30-second blocks (depending on connection quality/speed) -- instead of counting plays, time blocks suggest a better represenation of which content is actually being enjoyed the most. Internet connections are not perfect, however; there is extensive coding to maintain monetization integrity, even if internet signals are cutting in and out. Also, there are artificially intelligent algorithms in place to prevent cheating/fraud.
Who are rightsholders?
We know that music consists of more than one component; Ascendents.net is committed to seeing that all sides of the music industry are doing well. Ascendents.net pays royalties to recording label artists, published songwriters, and music video producers, therefore there are THREE royalty components to an Ascendents.net monetized streaming block: the copyright holder of the MC (musical composition), the SR (sound recording), and lastly, the VR (visual residual). When sending royalties to an Ascendents Royalties account, monetized blocks are automatically split three equal ways. If multiple accounts are rightsholders, arrange someone to be the administrator for managing claims and adding additional bonus video information.
What qualifies for royalties?
Our mission and vision includes the next-level platform for bringing music/entertainement industries together to create income. Music videos (belonging to YouTube categories #10 and #22) qualify. If you see a video that is improperly monetized, please contact support or email support@ascendents.net so that we can review it and possibly disable or correct its monetization qualification status.
How much is earned per streaming block?
Rightsholders are paid twice per minute, rather than once per stream. As a result, payment isn't about how much is earned per song or video, it's about how much is earned per time block. Royalty rates are dynamic and depend on several factors -- 1) advertising sales, 2) operating costs, 3) web traffic. If more royalties are being utilized than expected, then Ascendents.net automatically adjusts the royalties rate for the rest of the period. Based on new expected royalties payouts, each week a new royalty rate is recalculated to be as competitive as possible. If revenue allows it, royalty rates will keep increasing at up to 5% per week. Read about Ascendents.net being a Benefit Corporation and its Sustainability. Royalty rates are set to maintain the financial integrity of the company. If there are more royalties blocks than forecasted, the royalty rate automatically discounts to compensate. If there is a shortage in funds, royalty payments can be delayed and/or discounted further.
*(2018-09-05) Nobody bought advertising, and nobody requested royalties even though initially tried to offer one of the better streaming rates out there (compared to many sources, including those listed in this article and in this Information is Beautiful infographic), and YouTube is still awesome and lets us use their API. Currently, the royalties program is in mild hibernation until advertisers help generate artist revenue. Thanks, please contact us with any questions.
**(2019-10-10) Still nobody has purchased advertising, however; it has been used for charity promotion. The royalties program has been re-instated to be industry competitive, whether or not anyone signs up to accumulate and receive royalties.
Saturday 14th of December 2019 11:58:42 PM Pacific Time (86.30% thru the week)
This Week's Royalties Numbers:
Effective
2019-10-28 00:00:00
Current Block Rate:
$0.010000
How often are balances updated?
When videos are watched and blocks are counted, royalties balances are instantly updated.
When do rightsholders typically get their money?
For account balances greater than $10, if electronic deposit is enabled, royalties payments are initiated the first week of each month. If direct deposit hasn't been set up, balances greater than $20 will be sent by check quarterly (March-31, June-31, September-31, December-31) to the mailing address on file.
What percentage do rightsholders get?
After affiliate sales commssion, even if all of it isn't allocated, 99% of the remaining ad revenue becomes available for royalties payments. For each royalty block processed, combined rightsholders pay is 98.01% -- for sending the monetized block to the payment gateway, Ascendents.net keeps a 1% service fee. For receiving/administering the monetized block, we also keep a 1% service fee. We aim to give the music industry's stakeholders (artists, songwriters, producers, and fans) the best of all worlds. It's about the music!
What if someone else gets my money?
Ascendents.net assumes you claimed your videos because rightsholders typically want to collect their royalties as soon as it is possible to. If someone else has claimed your video contact support or email support@ascendents.net to have it corrected. Royalties already paid can not be refunded.
Is Ascendents.net perfect?
We strive for perfect business relationships and guarantee to be free of intentional errors and omissions.
How fast can the money be accessed?
For an additional fee, a very special request can be made to pay off owed balances and initiate payment on the same or next business day (with direct deposit). Checks can also be requested. Special payments cost 5% or $5, whichever is greater.
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(2019-03-19) Added this screenshot to demonstrate how video owners still earn money through youtube and how we actively help promote sales of music content:
Ascendents.net's goal with advertising is to have a program that everybody (including visitors, rightsholders, affiliates, and advertising partners, etc.) see as a quality platform. Being a quality platform, we hope to show ad content that enhances the Ascendents.net experience, rather than making it annoying. By conforming to the latest standards from the Coalition for Better Ads, we avoid what are called "least preferred ad experiences." Ads should be accurately reflect you and your company. Images should be high-quality and of the right dimensions so that they look nice. This site aimed for a mature audience, but we realize that people of all ages might see your content. Please refrain from using offensive material or copyrighted material that you do not own, as we reserve the right to terminate that kind of content; in that case you can simply create and reactivate a different ad.
How much do ads cost?
Since royalty rates change continually and ad rates are based on royalty rates, ad prices also change continually. Check the prices frequently to lock in the best rates. For more information, This article (published in August 2016) compares advertising media types and their CPM prices). Click counts are provided for statistical purposes only and are not included in pricing. Ascendents.net has programming to help make sure browsers only reload visible ad windows.
Like TV, newspaper, and other forms of advertisement, there is no guarantee that people will engage with your ad.
A display means that it was displayed, for example: displaying something in a window does not mean people will turn to focus on it.
At the same time, just because someone doesn't click on your awesome ad doesn't mean that they didn't see it or that they won't factor it into their decisons!
This Week's Advertising Rates:
Effective
2017-08-14 00:00:00
Royalty Block Rate:
$0.0008
Block Multiplier
x 0.0
RightColumn AdRate:
$0.0054
NextBar AdRate:
$0.0034
Threads AdRate:
$0.0014
Total Blocks Forecasted:
Current Block Rate:
$0.000000
Next Week's Forecast:
Starts at
Next Total Blocks*:
Forecasted Block Rate*:
$0.000000
*This is only a prediction/future hint of the ad rates for next week -- it is possible that it can change several times before becoming active on Sunday Night at midnight.
Royalties are made possible by these following advertising partners:
On the Ads Manager page, click the `Edit` button next to the ad you wish to change the settings for. On the Add Funds/Edit Advertisement page, keep fund amount at zero and leave the credit card information blank. Updating an ad's settings also recalculates the ad price, so after updating, based on the current ad rate, the approximate number of displays remaining can change.
Do you offer refunds?
At this time, as shown in our returns/refunds policy, we do not offer refunds for digital purchases (such as advertising/ad credit). However, if you wish to cancel an ad, it can be exchanged for ad credit which can be used when purchasing future advertising. Royalty rates paid out are based on our sales revenue, so refunds are strongly discouraged -- the more refunds we offer, the more it negatively affects our music industry's favorite artists! If an order is cancelled, affiliate sales commission for it is also cancelled. If you are concerned about needing a refund, please simply instead consider testing our advertising program with a small test budget to see if you like it. Once committed, Ascendents.net assumes you intend to stay for the duration of your marketing campaign because it takes time to see how successful it is.
Are Ascendents.net ads secure?
Advertisments are hosted/served by our secure web server. They are free of malware and malicious/overboard coding practices.
How does targeting work?
We can publicly determine a visitor's approximate geographic location based on the IP address that is routed to a substation of either their internet service provider or mobile/cell phone service carrier.
With a custom link to our advertising store, you can refer your friends and visitors to our program and earn 10% for every advertising dollar spent!
How do I get a custom link?
Visit our affiliate program and at the bottom of the page, create an affiliate account.
How often are affiliate accounts paid
Accounts with balances greater than $10 that have set up electronic payments (such as direct deposit or paypal) are paid on Mondays, weekly, otherwise; a check will be mailed to your mailing address on the first Monday of every month.
How much is earned per sale?
Affiliates earn 10% commission on advertising sales. Customers using free ad credit promotions to make purchases do not contribute to affiliate revenue sales commissions.
Saturday 14th of December 2019 11:58:42 PM Pacific Time (86.30% thru the week)
How does this help the music industry?
After paying your sales commission, ad revenue goes directly to the available royalties payment fund.
I installed a fireplace and chimney in the tiled roof hut. This is for for lighting and cooking. Heating is already taken care of by the underfloor heating system. I knocked a hole in the back wall and made it from the same mud used to build the hut. Some left over roof tiles were used as a chimney cap.
I made same pottery too. Clay was dug from the creek bank, mixed with broken crushed tiles as grog and formed into a cooking pot and 4 large water pots. I burnished them (rubbed till smooth) with a snail shell and a seed pod making them stronger and more water proof. Then I fired them in the tile kiln. The kiln fired pottery was larger and stronger than my previous pit fired pots and also had a lower breakage rate with only one of the five pots breaking.
I used the water pots to carry water from the creek to irrigate a sweet potato patch behind the wattle and daub hut (over the creek from the tile hut). The cooking pot was used to boil creek water. I used two different methods to show how to boil water: 1) in the kiln using it like a stove and 2) using pot boiling stones from the fire place. Boiling the water with rocks was faster than boiling a pot over a fire. Wooden tongs were made and rocks were put in the fireplace till they glowed red hot. The rocks were then put in the cold water in the pot. It only took 4 rocks to boil the water violently. This is probably the best method for sterilizing suspect water for drinking and could be done even without a pot (even a puddle next to a creek could be boiled this way).
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I built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should be pointed out that I do not live in the wild and that this is just a hobby. It should be obvious to most that this is not a survival shelter but an experiment in primitive building technology.
To cut and carve wood I used the celt stone axe and stone chisel made in this video. To carry water and make fire I used pots and fire sticks made in this video. Finally, to store fire wood and dry, unfired tiles, I used the wood shed built in this video.
The wooden frame was built with a 2X2m floor plan and a 2m tall ridge line with 1m tall side walls. 6 posts were put into the ground 0.25 m deep. The 3 horizontal roof beams were attached to these using mortise and tenon joints carved with a stone chisel. The rest of the frame was lashed together with lawyer cane strips. The frame swayed a little when pushed so later triangular bracing was added to stop this. Also when the mud wall was built, it enveloped the posts and stopped them moving altogether.
A small kiln was built of mud from the ground and a perforated floor of clay from the creek bank. It was only 25 cm internal diameter and 50 cm tall. Clay was dug, broken tiles (from previous batches) were crushed and added to it as grog and it was mixed thoroughly.This clay was pressed into rectangular moulds made from strips of lawyer cane to form tiles. Wood ash prevented the clay sticking to the stone. 20 tiles were fired at a time. 450 flat tiles and 15 curved ridge tiles were made with only a few breakages. 26 firings were done in all and the average firing took about 4 hours. The fired tiles were then hooked over the horizontal roof battens.
An underfloor heating system was built into one side of the hut to act as a sitting/sleeping platform in cold weather. This was inspired by the Korean Ondol or “hot stone”. A trench was dug and covered with flat stones with a firebox at one end and a chimney at the other for draft. The flames travelled beneath the floor heating it. After firing it for a while the stones stay warm all night with heat conducted directly to the sleeping occupant and radiating into the room.
The wall was made of clayey mud and stone. A stone footing was laid down and over this a wall of mud was built. To save on mud, stones were included into later wall courses. The mud was dug from a pit in front of the hut and left a large hole with a volume of about 2.5 cubic metres.
The finished hut has a swinging door made of sticks. The inside is dark so I made a torch from tree resin. A broken tile with resin on it acts as a small lamp producing a lot of light and little smoke. The end product was a solid little hut, that should be fire and rot resistant. The whole project took 102 days but would have taken 66 days were it not for unseasonal rain. For a more in depth description see my blog (https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/).
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I made a batch of charcoal using the mound method then stored it in baskets for later use. Charcoal is a fuel that burns hotter than the wood it's made from. This is because the initial energy consuming steps of combustion have taken place while making the charcoal driving off the volatile components of the wood (such as water and sap). The result is a nearly pure carbon fuel that burns hotter than wood without smoke and with less flame. Charcoal was primarily a metallurgical fuel in ancient times but was sometimes used for cooking too.
To make the charcoal the wood was broken up and stacked in to a mound with the largest pieces in the center and smaller sticks and leaves on the out side. The mound was coated in mud and a hole was left in the top while 8 smaller air holes were made around the base of the mound. A fire was kindled in the top of the mound using hot coals from the fire and the burning process began (the hot coals are being poured in the top using a small pot at 2:38).
The fire burned down the inside of the mound against the updraft. I reason that this is a better way to make charcoal as the rising flames have used up the oxygen and prevent the charcoal already made above them from burning while driving out even more volatiles .
I watched the air holes at the base of the mound and when the fire had burned right up to each opening I plugged them with mud. Once all 8 holes had be sealed the hole in the top of the mound was sealed with mud and the mound left to cool. From lighting the mound to closing up the holes the whole process took about 4 hours.
The next day when the mound was cool to the touch (this can take about 2 days sometimes) I opened the mound. The resulting charcoal was good quality. Some wood near the air entries had burned to ash though these were only small twigs and leaves. This is the reason small brush is put on the out side of the mound, to be burned preferentially to the larger wood on the inside thus protecting the large pieces of charcoal.
The charcoal that was made was hard and shiny. When broken open it had the ray structure of the wood preserved. When moving the hand through it the charcoal sounded tinny, like coral on a beach being moved by waves. These are signs of good quality. Bad charcoal is soft, breaks easily and has a muffled sound.
I intend to use the charcoal to produce hotter fires than I'm able to with wood alone. From my research, a natural draft furnace using wood (a kiln) can reach a maximum of 1400 c degrees whereas a natural draft furnace using charcoal can reach 1600 c degrees. Achieving high temperatures is necessary for changing material to obtain better technology (e.g. smelting ore into metal).
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In this video I walk you through matting and framing a fine art photograph including talking about the supplies and tools I use in my print studio.
Follow this link for a full listing of materials & resources: http://creativepathworkshops.com/matting-and-farming-supply-list
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