YouTube just cancelled one of the most powerful conservative voices in America – but we’re fighting back with a bold new plan to beat Big Tech.
When Donald Trump announced that he would seek the office of the presidency in 2015, media pundits and activists from both sides of the aisle mocked his vision for America. Among the academics and thinkers who disagreed was Dr. Steve Turley – an American New Testament scholar and theology teacher who argued that Donald Trump was helping usher in a new age of national populism in the United States. Turley’s influence on the conservative political and media landscape ever since has been huge, having helped Americans from all walks of life understand the dynamics at play, not just in the Trump White House but within the media industry that was dedicated to destroying him.
And just as Big Tech, the media, and the government came after Trump, they’re now coming after Dr. Steve Turley, too. After seven successful years on YouTube, releasing multiple episodes of the hugely popular Turley Talks show every single day, the Google-owned platform is no longer pulling any punches. YouTube wants Turley Talks destroyed – and they want to cost us big in the process.
How YouTube Robbed Us Of $1.4 Million
When Turley Talks launched in 2016, we knew we were onto something big. What we didn’t realize at the time is that our community would grow so huge, so diverse, and so powerful that YouTube would one day attempt to destroy us. We built an audience of over 1.2 million subscribers, and hundreds of thousands more on Twitter and Rumble. People love our content so much that we even ranked as one of the top 50 political podcasts in the world.
Despite Dr. Steve’s popularity, however, YouTube informed our team on Black Friday, 2023, that we were “improperly” using content and that our entire channel had been demonetized as a result. The news meant that Turley Talks could no longer withdraw revenue generated by the advertisements on our daily videos. The warning from YouTube was vague, too, providing little to no information about the allegedly “improper” content, or why they believed it was being used improperly. It stunk of malfeasance – but sadly, what YouTube did to us is, technically, completely legal.
After cutting off our revenue, YouTube gave us an opportunity to appeal – but only after 90 days had passed.
After some time went by, with Dr. Steve continuing his daily video output despite demonetization, YouTube finally demanded that we delete a number of YouTube Shorts – the shorter video clips we share that appear on a TikTok-like feed on the YouTube app. After we deleted the content as instructed, and after the 90 days were up, we finally filed our appeal in February. After an additional thirty days – now the end of March – Turley Talks was informed that YouTube would not lift the ban.
YouTube said that they knew better than our millions of viewers, and confirmed that our demonetization was permanent.
The platform erroneously claimed that our content, which focuses on the rebuilding of America’s Christian foundations and the empowerment of the American people through politics, was “harmful.”
That’s right – a Big Tech company, which regularly promotes harmful content to young Americans on the themes of Puberty Blockers and childhood “gender transition” – wanted us to believe that the Christian and populist themes of our content were harming our loyal viewers.
Sure, Turley Talks is still on YouTube – but we might not be for much longer. In fact, if YouTube gets its way, Turley Talks would disappear into obscurity.
Why? Because in 2024, we were projected to generate $1.4 million in advertising revenue from YouTube alone. That’s a lot of money – and it’s what keeps Turley Talks ticking. It’s a lot of money to YouTube, too. When Turley Talks was monetized, YouTube took a whopping 55% of our ad revenue. Now, if YouTube chooses to air ads on our videos, they’ll take 100%.
That’s millions of dollars per year generated by brave American conservatives going straight into the pockets of Big Tech, and not to the creators of the show they watch!
As with other big accounts on the platform, advertising revenue allows us to continually improve our content, to pay our team, and to keep up with the demanding schedule we set for ourselves. At Turley Talks, we value every single one of our viewers who makes this project possible. That’s why we have never missed a beat with our content output. But without that revenue, our future hands in the balance.
So, we have a plan.
We’re Fighting Back With a Bigger, BETTER Online Community
YouTube’s assault on free speech will not be our death knell. Turley Talks will not just sit idly by while Big Tech companies, consumed by their own obsession with ultra-progressive ideas that are harmful to the American project, try to silence us.
Not only will we continue to push our content on YouTube for as long as the platform allows, but we’re building an exciting new platform that they can’t easily stop.
We’re launching the brand new Turley Talks App – a free-speech video platform featuring all of Dr. Steve’s content. It’s everything good about YouTube, and then some.
Available on Android and iOS, the Turley Talks App gives you access to daily videos from Dr. Steve, and so much more. Users get a better overall experience, and access to additional content, features, and incentives that we’re excited to share.
Have you ever wanted to go to dinner with Dr. Steve? Pick his brain about your favorite video? Or meet like-minded people in your area?
Well, now you can. Not only can you download the app right now, but you can help us directly by becoming a monthly subscriber to tons of exclusive content – from a daily newsletter to monthly virtual group calls, local meet ups, and so much more. We think this is going to be really fun.
So, what do you say?
Join the community, and download the app today!
