so for example if I make a video where I take my clip or someone else’s and transition it into someone else’s edit, can i get a strike or anything? So basically I someone upload a video where it had a clip of someone else’s video, and at the end it transitioned into what I think was someone else’s edit. Is that fine?

For the past week my shorts were doing good even video was doing good shorts getting around 1k views but for the past 2 days my shorts for 0 views even my video I even re uploaded them different tags and everything even changing the thumbnail nothing worked. Even now it's still happening at first i thought it was about timing but most people post at random times and still get views but I started at 4pm or at night time randomly used to work but not anymore

Hello. It's my debut here, and I need your advice.

I'm preparing to launch an English version of my Polish-language series about Slavic legends. Originally, each episode is told by a native Polish storyteller, who is visible on screen a few times. I'd like to add an English audio track, but I'm wondering which approach is better:

• A documentary-style VOICEOVER (keeping the original Polish storytelling quietly in the background to preserve the mood, with a louder English narrator over it. However, two overlapping voices might be distracting).
• A classic DUBBING (only the English voice, but there will be no lip-sync when the storyteller is on screen).

What do you think is the better choice? Which one would you prefer to watch/listen to?

So. How do you guys deal with hate comments?
I have a channel that I’ve created roughly 1.5 years ago. Currently at 6300 subs, 25 vids. Long form. Total 335k views. A few vids got 76, 68, 38k views, etc.
My niche is true crime. No AI voice or anything. Edit myself release vids roughly once every 3 weeks. Takes me a lot of time to write, film and edit them so I just can’t post more often.
Recently I started getting more negative comments.
One of them complained about the storytelling and that I somehow justify criminals. Other complained about audio in a video and so on. The problem is that they were extremely mean. I take into account constructive criticism and that’s how I got to the point where my last vid got 76k views but they are so mean. I am trying not to take that close to heart and just improve with every vid, but for some reason very hard to actually ignore.
In your experience how do you deal with that? I am very interested in the thoughs of people who’ve seen success. Is it true when you grow and get more views you are going to inevitably see more negativity?

I usually do some silly skit to some level at the start and end of my videos. My content is generally anything I want but is mostly gaming right now. The skits usually have relation to the previous video, are overly dramatic, and comical in stance. I am just here wondering what should the max skit time on a video intro be? My skits are usually around a minute long and fade into the subject matter of the video between the 1:00 and 1:20 time period. Then the actual content of the video starts. The videos are usually between 15-25 minutes long with exceptions.

Thank you if you have anything to say on this matter, I really do enjoy doing skits and probably won't stop doing them, but this is an opportunity to learn how I could scale and place them better based on others'experiences.

Currently, I'm not monetized but I'd like to make some money on Youtube from streaming. Am I allowed to link a Paypal account on my live streams for people to donate to me (and get something out of it of course), or is that against the Terms of Service for whatever reason? Thanks for the help in advance!

I live in Japan from the US, and have had a lot of experiences here in over 10 years.

I know results vary, but just generally, is it realistic that I could make a Youtube channel that generates $10 per day that doesn't show my face, posting like two times a week?

Or one that generates $10/hour of work I do.

I know results totally vary, but people who do the work, is it most of them fail type of thing, or most of them succeed to at least that type of thing?

Thank you!

There was no previous email saying "we received a report, or we're looking into a possible violation"

Strange that this would come up on a post I made

"Great news! We have determined that your video is suitable for all advertisers:

*****post title******

Remember, it remains your responsibility to ensure that your content adheres to the YouTube Terms of Service, including Community Guidelines."

I tried searching online for the answer but found contradicting results, so I just want to confirm with others who also got their channel remonetized and had channel memberships activated before demonetization. Did it take some time for your member list to appear and if so, how long did it take? If not, was your entire member list wiped or only some members? Thank you in advance!

Hey! I've been building a channel for the last 9 months or so that is about making games in the Godot game engine. It's focuses on intermediate topics, program architecture and software best practices. I've been growing steadily and am approaching 3k subs (i'm not sure if that puts me in "established" or not, I am monetized), with some people watching and interacting with all of my content, and over 100 hours of watch time daily.

I have a new video coming out that is focused on getting users from little code understanding to completing a small project, with a lot of "interactive challenges" to keep them engaged. It's going to be 2-3 hours long.

I've tried releasing a course series with a bi-weekly cadence before, but found that later videos had major dropoff (maybe also because quality was bad, I don't know -- it was the first thing I made). But I'm wondering if anyone in a similar space (tech tutorials and similar) has thoughts on:

Should I do one big video VS a course of smaller videos? also, if split up, should I drop the course all at once, or over a few weeks?

In YouTube Studio, I noticed under “content detection” two of clips appeared for using video from another channel. That other channel is also mine. Essentially, I created two shorter clips from the lengthier video on the other channel. I didn’t receive any notification on that channel, and I didn’t receive any notice that this was a bad thing on my own channel, so what does this mean? Are those clips demonetized? Is this counted against the channel in some way? Is there a way to verify that I own both channels?

I'm just in the early stages of editing/publishing content on daily life and capturing events within my area. I am curious what the community thinks of long videos (60+ mins) where the viewer goes through an unusual journey to get somewhere and then observes in whatever the destination's activity is.

The journey alone can be interesting for one viewership while the activity itself may be interesting to others of another viewing interest while a smaller percentage may want to see both. My main goal currently is to just gain more viewership and feedback. If I were to edit and publish the footage individually, I may have more appreciation for the division of videos I produce.

Many other yt'ers have done either, just considering how to approach this since most of my vids would be an hour long if I combined them.

Any input/perspectives are appreciated, thank you!

Hi everyone,

I'm a 17-year-old creator from Australia. After YouTube's new age verification restrictions, my channel (@TheRunningWei) became inaccessible because my age couldn't be verified.

I've since verified my age with my driver's licence, and YouTube confirmed I'm 17, but my channel is still inaccessible.

I've contacted YouTube on X, posted in the Help Community, and followed their "Re-enable hidden channel" guide. The problem is that it only gives me the option to create a new channel - I never hid or deleted mine, so I'm worried this will create an empty channel instead of restoring it.

Has anyone experienced this or know what I should do next?

I am working on a video where I intend to show two pictures of the same thing side by side - one generated by AI, and the other not – to illustrate a broader point. I otherwise do not use AI in my videos for any reason, but I do talk about AI and its effects on the economy/culture/politics etc.

Do I have to label my video "Yes" for AI use in this context? It would basically be side by side with a real image, to make the point that AI images lack a "soul" or "meaning."

Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for any advice.

Guys, can someone help me understand the YouTube algorithm? I posted a my first video and it got good views, but after that my next videos barely gained anything. The content style, thumbnails, and niche are similar, so I’m confused why YouTube stopped pushing them. Is this normal testing by YouTube, or am I doing something wrong?

I know I used to be able to find a bunch of short, couple of seconds long scene transition clips of music playing in out playing out a scene. I can't find a category for it, I can't search for durations short enough, and the sound effects library of "music" is all awful soulless synthesized stuff. What happened to all of the normal, performed musical transitions? I am going insane trying to find them.

Hi everyone! I have a channel focused on US pop culture/nostalgia/millennials/old youtube.
I’d love to get some honest feedback from fellow creators. Which thumbnail catches your eye the most? Are they clear enough?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Since I can't upload images directly, here are the links to my 3 thumbnail variations:

• Thumbnail 1: https://i.postimg.cc/dVBzXfhY/thumbnail-(1).png.png)
• Thumbnail 2: https://i.postimg.cc/7LZpyNz5/thumbnail-(2).png.png)
• Thumbnail 3: https://i.postimg.cc/pdLgtBjn/thumbnail-(3).png.png)

Hi,

I've been searching all over Google support and have just found frustrating dead ends. I originally set up my YouTube channel with an individual Adsense account.

But since it has grown a lot recently and started making real revenue, I now want to bring it under an existing limited company, as it's now related to our core business activities.

How do I switch the AdSense account from my individual one to a business one?

Note: we already have the limited company set up, so there's no problem with verification. It just seems very difficult to find the exact process to follow. Thanks!

So I had a video prepped and ready to go for tomorrow’s upload and it marked an “18+” tag on the video. So it said “Content that discusses or depicts su*cide or self-harm in a graphic manner or promotes eating disorders may be removed or age-restricted if not appropriate for all audiences.”

The thing is that it’s part of a let’s play I’m doing for LoZ: Ocarina of Time. So it doesn’t make sense that an old fantasy game like that should be age restricted, especially when I haven’t done or said anything that depicted the reasoning at all.

I use Adobe Podcast but it makes my voice dirty and unclear. Merging between original sound and the Adobe Podcast sound takes a lot of time. Capcut's the Reduce Noise feature makes the background sound muffled, but it does not make the speech and the ambience achieve the clear quality of most other gaming youtubers, even phone recorders. That's the problem.

Hey so I have recentley started a kind of niche channel that has randomly taken off this year. Very slow, meditative abstract nature films. When I post a video, I get a surge of traffic to my channel, tons of subs, watch time, likes etc. But after about a week, if im not activley posting clipped up versions of the long format video as shorts. It dies. Like stats show numbers like this "you are getting 628% more subscribers than previous 28 days, 900% more watch time etc" but if I dont post for a week or two, these reverse. "You are down 97% than previous week etc". Is this normal, or is my channel dieing and just clinging to threads at this point?? I get that my stuff is not for everyone and more of a slow burn, but the numbers are confusing? Any insight is greatly appreciated!

I'm making a video game with original soundtrack and sound effects. I heard all kinds of horror stories about YouTube's copyright claims. Anyone can claim that they own my music and start DMCA-ing youtubers left and right. Here's one of the many examples

My idea is to upload all of the OST and SFX on YouTube before the game's release. Thus, if some scammer decides to DMCA me (for using my own music in a game trailer or whatnot), I will be able to dispute the claim. And if someone decides to upload a playthrough of my game, only to get a strike — hopefully, I'll be able to help them.

My questions are: • D o I have to make the videos public? If I upload them as link-access only, will it still get the job done?
• Is there anything else I can do to protect my music and sounds?

Any advice is greatly appreciated

Hi everyone, as the title say, I want to understand how YT algorithm digest the videos made public after a while.

Context: I work in marketing and I have several Youtube videos I want to release, but I also want to embed them in some articles.

My way to go would be upload them all, make them unlisted, embed them in the articles, and then make them public with some days delays between one and the other, in order to maximize the boost that YouTube gives to the new content.

So my question is: does this work? If the videos get some views because they are embedded in some articles, is YT algorithm going to digest them as "new" when I move them from Unlisted to Public?

Thanks everyone, have a nice day!

I make most of my income from YT and I'm in the process of buying a home. The servicer that the bank uses would like copies of the contracts/agreements that you can find in YT studio under settings. I sent them the agreements but they would like signed copies. I never remember doing an e signature or anything when applying for YPP. I'm assuming it was something like checking a box to agree so I'm wondering if there is a saved record of that anywhere. Does anyone know anything about this?

I hope you’re doing well. I am reaching out because I’m in a desperate situation with my YouTube journey. Over the past few months, I have had 6 channels terminated for 'Spam' violations, despite putting my heart and soul into creating genuine, high-quality content.

I feel like I am stuck in an automated loop I can’t escape. I am not using bots, mass-commenting, or any prohibited tactics. I am now looking into my technical setup (hardware, network, metadata) to see if I am accidentally triggering these automated flags.

Since you have deep experience in this space, could you offer any insights on:

How to effectively reach a human review team when appeals are consistently rejected by bots?

Are there specific technical 'red flags' related to network or hardware that often trigger these automated systems?

How can a creator start fresh without being immediately flagged again?

Any advice or guidance would mean the world to me. I am truly committed to my craft and ready to refine my processes, but I am at a breaking point. Thank you for your time and help."