Can't Partner User: "Assigned to Another Inactive Content Owner"

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Simca

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When inviting a channel, I receive the following error message: "This user is already assigned to another inactive content owner: X" (where X is the user's channel name).

I have never encountered this previously.

Googling "inactive content owner" provides exactly 5 search results. Two of those are in English, and only one is useful. I'm posting here because that useful result is from YTTalk.

Gabriel said:
The network should only have trouble inviting you to their CMS if you are blacklisted by Google which is rare or if your monetization tab is disabled (which isn't the case in this instance) and a few others like inactive content owner (ex, uncompleted monetization steps) or strikes.

Good luck anyway, Oreo2013.
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Has anyone ever heard of this error before and/or have any clue how to resolve it?
For example, it'd be awesome if the original user (Gabriel) who made that comment has any further advice

Some background information:
  • The user is in a country where monetization is reportedly unavailable by default (Sri Lanka).
  • Despite this, the user was able to be invited by a different network early last year.
Thanks all!
 
Hey, funny you found my response via Google haha.. I'm still here!

He could be blacklisted for possible risk of invalid click activity.
 
Is this when rolling up users via the CMS? It usually means the User's adsense has been disabled for action fraud.
 
Shane.C said:
Is this when rolling up users via the CMS? It usually means the User's adsense has been disabled for action fraud.
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Yep.

The only odd part is that the user says he isn't even eligible for AdSense because of his nation. I can't seem to find any country-based eligibility restrictions for AdSense except a monetization article for YT that says applications are still needed for four specific countries (and Sri Lanka is not one of them).
 
Got some more information on the situation behind this error that I thought I would share - it's a pretty weird case, which is probably why this message is so rare. I'm not sure that anyone here can do anything to help, but I love stuff like this being available on the web. Undoubtedly at some point in the future, somebody else will have a similar situation and now they will be able to find additional information where there was none before.

When I asked the user to go to https:// www. youtube .com/account_monetization (remove spaces), he got the following message: http:// i. imgur .com/uXZWa9q.png (remove spaces)

However, he still claims he never even signed up for AdSense at all. Reading up on disapproved applications, it seems they are actually very rare except if you're creating an AdSense account with a name/SSN already on a different AdSense account or you gave invalid information. Google apparently prefers to ban bad AdSense accounts rather than spend the time screening apps super thoroughly. Anyway, it's just weird that it would even be disapproved yet somehow 'linked' still. That seems like somebody wasn't thinking when they implemented that code because there's no reason to associate an application with an account (hence his AdSense status is listed as 'inactive', not 'disabled').

Additionally strange is that the user has an option to 'change the AdSense account', which is something that is normally never available to YouTube users of AdSense. However, if the user tries to create an AdSense account on the AdSense site with the YouTube URL as the location for the ads, it tells him to go to YouTube to create it. If he tries to create the AdSense account via YouTube, it says that it isn't available in his country for YouTube and that he should create his account on the AdSense site. Basically, he gets caught in an infinite redirection loop with the applications contradicting each other. I don't know how he could have ever even managed to link this disapproved application to his YouTube account in the first place given that situation, so I pretty much believe him when he says he didn't ever apply.

Seems like a very odd situation that I will probably have to contact YouTube about (if it can be resolved at all). Maybe the user can manage to create an AdSense account by using a URL for the location of ads that isn't YouTube - but that's practically deceiving the system to try to get around this.
 
Simca said:
Got some more information on the situation behind this error that I thought I would share - it's a pretty weird case, which is probably why this message is so rare. I'm not sure that anyone here can do anything to help, but I love stuff like this being available on the web. Undoubtedly at some point in the future, somebody else will have a similar situation and now they will be able to find additional information where there was none before.

When I asked the user to go to https:// www. youtube .com/account_monetization (remove spaces), he got the following message: http:// i. imgur .com/uXZWa9q.png (remove spaces)

However, he still claims he never even signed up for AdSense at all. Reading up on disapproved applications, it seems they are actually very rare except if you're creating an AdSense account with a name/SSN already on a different AdSense account or you gave invalid information. Google apparently prefers to ban bad AdSense accounts rather than spend the time screening apps super thoroughly. Anyway, it's just weird that it would even be disapproved yet somehow 'linked' still. That seems like somebody wasn't thinking when they implemented that code because there's no reason to associate an application with an account (hence his AdSense status is listed as 'inactive', not 'disabled').

Additionally strange is that the user has an option to 'change the AdSense account', which is something that is normally never available to YouTube users of AdSense. However, if the user tries to create an AdSense account on the AdSense site with the YouTube URL as the location for the ads, it tells him to go to YouTube to create it. If he tries to create the AdSense account via YouTube, it says that it isn't available in his country for YouTube and that he should create his account on the AdSense site. Basically, he gets caught in an infinite redirection loop with the applications contradicting each other. I don't know how he could have ever even managed to link this disapproved application to his YouTube account in the first place given that situation, so I pretty much believe him when he says he didn't ever apply.

Seems like a very odd situation that I will probably have to contact YouTube about (if it can be resolved at all). Maybe the user can manage to create an AdSense account by using a URL for the location of ads that isn't YouTube - but that's practically deceiving the system to try to get around this.
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Can't you link your AdSense account to his account to resolve it then invite the channel? That's what I used to do all the time about a year ago.
 
Gabriel said:
Can't you link your AdSense account to his account to resolve it then invite the channel? That's what I used to do all the time about a year ago.
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Very interesting idea, but I don't have an AdSense account.

Would it work okay if I made one and then linked it to his account?
 
Simca said:
Very interesting idea, but I don't have an AdSense account.

Would it work okay if I made one and then linked it to his account?
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Why would you roll up a channel if you/your business has no AdSense account?

In the case of you maintaining a business AdSense account and want to sign up for a personal AdSense account then that's fine.
 
I'm an agent for a reasonably-sized network, so I wouldn't have access to the network's AdSense account directly (unless I'm misunderstanding the role AdSense has for networks).
 
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