YouTube's new high (low) for monetizing videos.

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Hirudov

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Today I've noticed one of my videos on my second channel was flagged inappropriately as "Not suitable for all advertisers". The video is unlisted, so it's an automatic trigger. Not a big deal I thought - It happened to me before for several videos. Later I found that it was because some word in the description meant something inappropriate in some random language (not English), the system flags the videos automatically as not suitable for advertisers. Anyway, I have requested manual review for such videos in the past and they were with restored monetization sometimes in less than 24 hours, with max of 3 days. But this is not the case anymore. I requested manual review for the video, only to be greeted by this message:
Right now we are only able to review videos with at least 1,000 views in the past 28 days. We'll review your video once it reaches that threshold.
With this message - good luck in getting a flagged video monetized unless it is doing really well - i.e. 1100 views/month. I wish 10% of my videos were that good.
For me this is a new low in YouTube's monetizing strategy that will randomly demonetize thousands of low performing videos for no reasons and without any possibility to re-appeal them. And people were mad with the 10,000 views before monetization rule. This rule is even worse. Oh well, now I have a new feature in the creator studio - to list the "Limited or no ads videos".
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For some reasons this super-duper awesome feature to list the Limited or no ads videos is not yet available on my main channel, but yeah, its most probably coming there as well.

Edit. My mistake - it's 1100 views per month not 30K.
 
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I run a gaming channel and I notice that I've been hit with the same problem too on about 20 of my older videos. I notice it from yesterday. I appeal all of them but the results is still the same as of today. Some of my old videos haven't even hit 1000 views in their lifetime so they may never get appealed, this is really annoying.

Also I uploaded a bunch more videos these past 2 weeks, but they are still set to private(not releasing them yet) and not monetised and they all have been hit with the Not suitable for all advertisers. Its really strange as these videos are from a 'expansion' of a game I previous did videos on and they had no problems with the monetisation. So my videos are not even going to gets ads until after 1000 views and only if Youtube even review them?

Now I'm really worried as my videos usually doesn't get 1000 views each in a month or if at all since I run a small channel. Does that mean all my future videos are going to be ad limited or no ads?

I notice on twitter, lots of gaming channels got hit with this problem also, I guess Youtube wants to get rid of gamers and gaming content.
 
I had a few older videos that didn't get many views that were deemed "inappropriate" for advertising or whatever statement they make to that effect and when I appeal it, I usually get the video monetized. I usually don't care too much b/c a lot of the times, it's on videos that are not generating many views in the first place. but principally speaking, it's quite annoying when you go through your video manager only to find some random videos from your past have been de-monetized without any warning (sometimes I get an email notifying me, sometimes not).
 
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So my videos are not even going to gets ads until after 1000 views and only if Youtube even review them?
It's not until they reach 1000 views. It's until they reach 1000 views for 28 days i.e. they need a minimum of 36 views per day to get considered for review. If they get 35 views per day - you are out of luck. If you have for example 10 flagged videos with 900 views each per month - you are out of luck. 10 videos * 900 = 9000 views that will be unmonetized for a whole month, 108000 views per year! Many people upload daily gaming videos for the fun of it (I used to do it as well). I didn't care that much for the views, I was doing it for the fun. In several months time these videos were generating some good amount of views. I stopped making such videos recently, because of my focus on fixing YouTube's bugs.
I notice on twitter, lots of gaming channels got hit with this problem also, I guess Youtube wants to get rid of gamers and gaming content.
I have hinted that YouTube hates videos with low amounts of views - they broke many of my videos, but only the ones with lower amount of views. The videos with higher amounts of views surprisingly were not affected by the bug. But on the other hand YouTube removed the requirement for 15000 hours/3 months to get e-mail support and now everyone can receive creator "support". My experience with the support is not that positive - reference my previous posts.
YouTube automatic detection systems are notorious for being false positive - especially in the copyright/content ID system. I have hundreds of released wrong copyright claims. My last experience was with Orchard music (they are notorious for wrongly claiming videos and stealing money). Well they wrongly re-claimed a video of me which was uploaded 2 years before their claim. I wrote them a detailed e-mail how their greed will not bring anything and how it shall be me claiming their song, not them stealing from me. They released the claim! But now with wrongfully flagged inappropriate for advertisers content, you can't appeal the decision, unless your videos are semi-popular (1000 views for 28 days).

Regarding my wrongly flagged video. I re-uploaded it and deleted most of the description and it's not flagged anymore. Pretty strange, because the same video on my main channel with the same description that was flagged on the second channel was untouched and is published now.

Regarding the LIMITED_OR_NO_ADS filter. It's broken. On my second channel it shows me now a video that is monetized. Probably it is limited somehow. But if it is limited, then you can't appeal the limited flag! I have run that filter on my main channel and it shows several videos that are still with their monetization option on (they can't be appealed), but they have no ads. Seeing them, they are most probably not okay for monetization - one of them with bikini girls doing carwash (no nudity, but sexy dances), second is political speech - nothing extremist, just a person speaking in front of several hundred thousand people. Third is clash of crowd of people with police - okay that shall not be monetized. some random protesting people videos (for whatever reasons) - I have hundreds of them - the other seems okay, and a video of a rooster and hens (just some birds roaming around). Oh well the birds video I named it "c**k and chicks" when uploading it. They removed the monetization back then, so I renamed it and then monetization was restored. Seems they remember that incident and decided to demonetize the video. I can't appeal any of these videos.

I guess the old days of YouTube being friendly to all kind of creators are over. And it will be getting worse and worse from now on.
 
It's not until they reach 1000 views. It's until they reach 1000 views for 28 days i.e. they need a minimum of 36 views per day to get considered for review. If they get 35 views per day

That means my channel of 11 years is dying soon then, since my videos from the past few years only gets between 200 to 500 views each on average and my latest 'unreleased' and not monetised yet ones all got 'not suitable for all advertisers', and I won't be able to get them reviewed as they will never get 1000 views within a month.

Ad revenue had dropped massively too over the last few years, where only 10% of total video views per day are monetised views even though almost all of my videos are monetised.

I'm not sure what to do, whether I should continue or find some other platform or so.
 
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I sent feedback to youtube. Very strongly worded thoughts on their decision to do so. And I will continue to do so for every video they wrongly decide to limit to no ads on any of my videos. I'd suggest you all do the same. we can all rant on the internet but if you dont b***h directly to them, they arent hearing clearly. You all were talking about this back in AUGUST and it's STILL a thing, what does that say about them? give them the feedback in swarmfulls. Bury their necks in complaints DIRECTLY at every opportunity that you get. Or we all ditch Youtube and show them. ANYONE can make a new platform to make videos. I'm surprised some rich person hasnt picked up on it being that youtube has been going downhill the moment google bought it.lol. If I was rich, I would have made that investment years ago and Inew that too when google+ was in the works.lol. (not that you need to be rich, but you know, to in a burst, beat youtube at their game, would take a lot of resources). Jus tlook at facebook. No-one liked facebook at first, but it quickly took over Myspace. Look at Myspace now...Myspace and YouTube will be one in the same in no time if they keep doing s**t like this.
 
I sent feedback to youtube. Very strongly worded thoughts on their decision to do so. And I will continue to do so for every video they wrongly decide to limit to no ads on any of my videos. I'd suggest you all do the same. we can all rant on the internet but if you dont b***h directly to them, they arent hearing clearly. You all were talking about this back in AUGUST and it's STILL a thing, what does that say about them? give them the feedback in swarmfulls. Bury their necks in complaints DIRECTLY at every opportunity that you get. Or we all ditch Youtube and show them. ANYONE can make a new platform to make videos. I'm surprised some rich person hasnt picked up on it being that youtube has been going downhill the moment google bought it.lol. If I was rich, I would have made that investment years ago and Inew that too when google+ was in the works.lol. (not that you need to be rich, but you know, to in a burst, beat youtube at their game, would take a lot of resources). Jus tlook at facebook. No-one liked facebook at first, but it quickly took over Myspace. Look at Myspace now...Myspace and YouTube will be one in the same in no time if they keep doing s**t like this.


This is an old discussion. All discussion about this has been centralised to the clearly pinned thread at the top of the forum -> http://yttalk.com/threads/not-suitable-for-all-advertisers-under-review-discussion-here-only.266712/

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