It's a little strange, I have the top tech review YouTube channel in Mainland China, one of the top five English channel- and yeah just because they are blocked here, but still it's a big market. And with 1.5m followers still I can't get a partner manager. I know guys with 400k who started years after me that have partner managers. I just go through the same forms, escalating past boilerplate responses. No regular point of contact or consistent dialog. Terse copy/paste responses. Refused my Play buttons and verification for years. None of which make any sense to me The risk I take running a YT channel this size, from inside China, as a Chinese national is not small. Why make it so much harder for me rather than establish a dialog?
Not that I know anything special here, but are there any PRC nationals who can have a relationship with YouTube while in the PRC? I can get foreign YouTubers establishing a relationship with YouTube via their home countries, or Chinese YouTubers abroad establishing relationships in their non-PRC resident countries, but it might be impossible to do it from inside the PRC as a Chinese since there isn’t much cooperation between the Chinese government and Google.
It might be worth it to ask them about the process they went through if you don't know already. It could be some really trivial blocker that doesn't require much preferential treatment to get through.
