Multiple accounts and liking

[GameramaTV]

Like I'm sure many people have, I have more than 1 YouTube account for different videos and various reasons. On one account I have gotten into the habit of liking my own videos as soon as they are uploaded - I saw some other YouTubers do it and thought, "why not?", it helps my video and I'd like to think that I would like my own videos at least. Then I got thinking, would it be against the YouTube rules to like the videos on my other accounts too? It would probably share them to the people who subscribe to their channels and help visibility.

The channels are based on different subjects, but are still regarded as "brother/sister" channels, but of course as innocent as this all sounds I can understand why it could be considered "dodgy" but if I have multiple accounts is there anything wrong with them liking certain videos from each other so long as they aren't false accounts purely created to spam likes?

Thanks.

 

[Jawad Soomro]

hahaha I don't think that its a spam or against youtube rules
I do it sometimes, I think its pretty cool!

 

[Harry Of All Trades]

I have done the same thing. I haven't checked the TOS to see if its ok. Granted, I only my personal account and then a 2nd channel associated with it. It's not like I'm creating 1000 channels and liking them all. I would suspect that if it's within reason and not with the purpose of gaming the system, that's probably ok. I think past 3 accounts liking the same video might be pushing your luck. Again, I would check the TOS to be sure.

 

[MR.SMITGAMING]

To be honest, I had an account a long time ago and so did my gf. My gf stopped using hers and I would use her account to comment on my stuff to make it more appealing. I would feel fake to do that now, but it was fun at the time

 

[thumbhais]

Haha, I never thought of doing that!

 

[Gourmet Gamer]

Knowing Youtubes stupid TOS you probably aren't even allowed to watch your own videos.

 

[SuperSurpriseFun]

I do it! I also remind my husband to watch and like new videos I've put up, and benefit to marriage

 

[SuckMyDax]

My main concern with that is you may not be able to get an honest feel of how well your videos are doing and lose a bit of the drive to improve your channel enough that those likes happen on their own.

 

[Squeal Cat]

Some likes or dislikes won't be noticed by Youtube. They don't know if it's your sisters or your grandfathers channel. And if you receive 400 likes then the two likes from yourselves doesn't matter anyway.

If you use the 'comment on new videos from other channel'-tactic, you could bump your own comments on videos...

 

[Harry Of All Trades]

I do it! I also remind my husband to watch and like new videos I've put up, and benefit to marriage

I need to get my wife to do that. She tends to forget to like the video after she watches it.