YouTube channels getting terminated?

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BaldGuyAce said:
So I was hoping maybe someone could help me here. I was under the impression that I've been following all of YouTube's guidelines. I had zero strikes and never received any. All I've been doing was posting the occasional message in various forums (only three forums to be precise) and only in sections where it was designated to post about videos. I have however recently started spending just $1 per day on Adwords advertising, which was getting me 100 views per day. Then just now I tried logging into my account and received the following message.

"This account has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy against spam, deceptive practices, and misleading content or other Terms of Service violations."

I have definitely not done anything deceptive, so I'm hoping this is some kind of mistake that can somehow be reversed. My adwords ads were simply my videos with no misleading descriptions at all. Has anyone had this happen to them before? I went to the website for "Requesting a Suspension Review" and filled it out, but I assume that will take weeks to be responded to, if at all. I really hope there's something I can do to clear this up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Edit: Now my channel is randomly back, but it has zero videos. YouTube must have some MASSIVE bugs going on. Twitter is abuzz with big channels that have been terminated. Something is definitely wrong at YouTube right now.

2nd Edit: Videos are now back, but thumbnails are all gone. Very weird bug.

3rd Edit: Thumbnails are still gone, 3 hours later. Also I noticed that my videos only play at 360p instead of 1080. I'll update here if I notice that it gets fixed.

4th Edit: Over 12 hours later, and finally my thumbnails and video quality appears to be restored. During this whole ordeal, there has been zero correspondence from YouTube. It's unfortunate, because I'm sure tons of channel creators simply assumed they couldn't get their channel back and just gave up on YouTube altogether. I hope YouTube will send out an email to affected users about this failure. Until I receive one, I will be very hesitant to continue using YouTube, since they could randomly terminate my channel for no reason at any time.
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Seriously, they should've at least sent out a tweet, "We know of the channel termination issue and are looking into it." or something along those lines.
 
Thank god I didn't run into this. If I did I would call YouTube and be beyond angry because I've put some serious time into my videos.
 
One interesting thing that this does highlight(at least it did for me), is how it's important to have your subscribers keep in touch with you on other forms of social media besides YouTube. That way if something like this happened and wasn't reversed, at least you could attempt to start over and notify people on your other forms of social media.
 
BaldGuyAce said:
One interesting thing that this does highlight(at least it did for me), is how it's important to have your subscribers keep in touch with you on other forms of social media besides YouTube. That way if something like this happened and wasn't reversed, at least you could attempt to start over and notify people on your other forms of social media.
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It would totally work for other type on content! Sadly our audiences are 3-5 years old and does not have social media. We depend on YouTube Algorithms more than other niche...
 
A couple days ago, mine says it was terminated for like half the day and then I came home and it wasn't terminated, so I have no idea. But I know for sure it was because you couldn't look up my channel nor click on it from any video. When you did, it also said terminated. Youtube is really weird right now.
 
Good lord I would be so mad if this happened to my channel, all the work....gone.

Youtube really needs to make a press statement soon because their claim that nothing is wrong is becoming more and more questionable with each passing day (and with each new fuckup)
 
My channel terminated two time and did not show any reason. Is it prohibited to share the link video link in g+ community and in share in twitter
 
Isn't AdWords a google service? If so, surely as Google or Alphabet, whichever name they prefer us ti use would know that their service is being used to advertise a YouTube channel so short of any glitches on their systems they cannot come with violation thing as to my knowledge they allow all YouTubers to use AdWords amongst other google/YouTube promotion options to drive people to your content and channel![DOUBLEPOST=1481574848,1481574671][/DOUBLEPOST]
A Bari said:
My channel terminated two time and did not show any reason. Is it prohibited to share the link video link in g+ community and in share in twitter
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I wouldn't have thought they would ban sharing on G+ or any google owned platform as this would make no sense, driving views to videos so long as not g=fake benefits them as well was thou content creator because they make money from the ads viewers watch also so would have thought so long as you not faking views they would welcome as much promotion as possible!
 
When I contacted Adwords, they said that even though they are owned by Google, they are 100% separate from YouTube and have zero communication or connection between the two companies. At least that's what the guy in customer support told me. So although it is allowed to advertise on Adwords, it's entirely possible that YouTube would confuse traffic from Adwords as illegitimate(although unlikely). But since YouTube never communicated to me as to why my channel was terminated, I will assume it had something to do with Adwords, and haven't used it since as a precaution.
 
My Youtube channel was also recently terminated/suspended (without warning or any notification); email their copyright department and they replied:

"Your YouTube account is not suspended for copyright."
"Due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines"

Contacted the company I monetized my channel with and they told me; "the TOS violations were coming from either "tagging or titling incorrectly, clickbait thumbnails, misleading content, etc".

Contacted their "appeal link" and the only repose I get is; "Thanks for your email. It looks as though your account (have 2 channels using the same email 1 with no videos on it) is active and you should have the ability to log in. If you are still having difficulties logging into your account, please be certain that you are using the correct username and password combination."

I am totally devastated, I am a videographer that records local music artists (Minneapolis area), and posted over 100+ videos over the course of 6 years. Never have I click baited anyone or posted misleading content or tagged incorrectly. I literally shoot edit and post local music videos (non have any copyright strikes against)!

FYI this is day 6 of my channel being terminated/suspended, any ideas?
 
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