I got monetized 2 weeks ago and am absolutely shocked at how well my channel is doing. Not to toot my own horn but I can’t help but want to share it with someone. I’ve been posting 5 shorts a day for 4 months, I started June 22nd. It started REALLY slow and I barely got a thousand views on my vids for atleast 1-2 months. I kept trying to work my way into different niches while maintaining the same format and bingo, one finally popped. I immediately decided to doubled down and stick with that niche and it’s been doing great ever since.

It hits different because I literally have -27$ in my bank account lol, I just got evicted and moved back home with family, with 5k worth of debt to repay😭😭 but if this keeps up I can make that all just a memory within 2 months. My mom is also supportive now that she sees results and is allowing me to stay at home to focus on YouTube instead of getting a job for now.

Hello, I upload a lot of LONG videos, and always go with automatic ad placement. I noticed today that all the ad placements stop at the 4 hour mark, when a lot of my videos are 5-20 hours. Have I been missing out of extra revenue by using automatic ad slots because of this?

im really confused on this whole aspect of this, if i should turn it on or not

I’m a small video game reviewing channel, around 2K subs. One of my newest videos did really well, but one of the commenters pointed out it just got stolen and translated to Spanish by a channel that’s around 10K subs. Sure enough, the video seems to use AI to translate my entire script word for word and rearrange my footage (and other people’s footage) without any credit. I’ve never been in a situation like this before, should I do anything about it or just leave it alone?

EDIT: Main thing is I don’t want to incite retaliation lol

I've never heard of this guy, and he makes shorts for kids. We actually have a mutual friend who is also very well known, which is why I even messaged him. Is it true what he says about Spotify?

When I choose to edit a portion of one of my YouTube videos into a short, in the last few weeks the process seems to be broken. It used to automatically select the default frame, but now it's this thin blurry vertical line? And if you go in and manually select that default frame look, the quality is horribly low. Has anyone else noticed this?

I was searching room tour videos on YouTube. While resort overview videos play normally, room tours are blocked. Different creators, from different years/months uploads. I tried signing out/in. Tried playing these while not signed in, different WiFi networks, lte on the phone - all same results - an error message. This resort is under Hyatt family.

I’ve never seen this issue. And it’s concerning for me, I also have a travel channel.

Me and a friend want to do a weekly news/commentary style show where he'd be joining remote every week. Tried the classic OBS + Discord route for a test run and it was rough. The audio sync keeps drifting over the course of the stream, even got echo when he forgot his headphones one week, and setting up scenes in OBS every time felt like way too much work for something we want to just hut record and go. Bruh I don't want to be constantly troubleshooting plugin every Sunday before we go live.

What I basically want is something browser based where he can just click and join, that doesn't need installs or anything, and has layouts that switch automatically instead of me manually cutting scenes and also streams out in HD to YouTube. Someone mentioned Riverside having a live mode with a backstage area for managing guest before they go live but has anyone here actually tried using that for recurring shows?? I really wanna try to figure out if it would hold up weekly or if it's better for just one-off interviews. Thanks for your insights.

Hi all,

I normally pull around £6/£7/£8 per 1k views as my RPM. I recently did my biggest video, it was an hour and a half, I normally do 1 hour. Put so much time and effort in. However one of the songs from a music site I use triggered a claim on upload and it took 3/4 days to clear the dispute up.

It cleared Monday. Today (Wednesday) was the first time my revenue tab has updated and upon expecting higher that usual RPM for this video, I saw it was £1.50. I'm absolutely devastated as my uploads take a long time to make, especially this one and its a lot of revenue to be missing out on. The video hit 100k views today, only 4 days after upload, so it just stings to see it so low on RPM.

If anyone has had similar experiences I would like to hear them.

Thanks,

So, I have a superhero channel where my videos usually average anywhere from 50K to 400K views pretty easily. However, since my last three uploads around mid-October, I’ve barely been getting any impressions. The CTR keeps fluctuating wildly, sometimes dropping to 0–2%, then going up to 8% or even over 20%, but YouTube still isn’t giving my videos enough impressions. The weird thing is that my AVD is still really good, around 40–60%. One of my videos eventually hit 90K views, but even that didn't start getting impressions until two days after uploading. Is anyone else experiencing a similar issue?

Is anyone else experiencing this annoying thing where you can’t send comments because the send button next to the text box keeps spinning? I have to close the app and go back in and then it’ll show the actual send button, but if I try and send a different comment right after that the spinning loop or death returns. I’ve tried updating the app but nothing seems to work, if anyone has a solution please share!!

I have 20K subscribers and I published this video ~20 hours ago. My channel is handwriting education for adults. I post every week or so, all evergreen content.

I thought it was interesting how little of the views came from the Subscriptions feed and Notifications. I don't think most users get past the Home Screen and just watch whatever YouTube recommends to them. And very few users are responding to notifications to watch the video.

Subscriptions, like comments and likes, probably help demonstrate a level of engagement which I'm sure the algorithm takes into account, but those factors aren't nearly as important as people clicking on and watching my videos.

That said, interested to hear what these numbers look like on your videos. I could see a podcast or regular news type of channel getting more views from the Subscriptions feed and Notifications.

I've been using YouTube promotions to boost my channel for over a year now. And until recently, it has worked fairly well. My channel recently crossed 21,000 subscribers.

But around October 16th, something odd happened. I tried to promote a video like I always do. And even though it shows the promotion is "active" with no issues, no ads are being run. There's no impressions or views coming through. I've tried to use support, but they've been unhelpful. They just keep saying "Give it a few days because it's in the learning phase." But it's been nearly two weeks. Has anyone else been having similar issues? Is there a way to fix this? Please help me.

If your channel is still sitting on your personal Google account and you're monetized or getting close to it, this is worth fixing before you need to, not after.

A Brand Account separates your channel's ownership from your personal Gmail/Drive/Photos. If your channel ever gets compromised, the attacker doesn't automatically get your personal email and files too — and vice versa, a personal account issue doesn't take the channel down with it. It also lets you add team members as Managers on the channel itself instead of literally sharing your Google password with an editor or manager.

YouTube Studio → Settings → General will tell you which setup you're currently on, and there's a built-in "move channel to a different account" flow if you need to switch. One-time annoyance, pays off the first time anything goes wrong on either side.

(Been looking into this stuff a lot building a YouTube channel security scanner — happy to answer questions if anyone's mid-migration and hits a snag.)

I had one of my most stressful days in a while (work wise, not YouTube). and unfortunately, I opened my YouTube studio and saw a very negative comment attacking my education incorrectly, as well as other things. Normally, I am good about just hiding it and moving on with my day, but I responded and I did not respond well.

in short, I mentioned they could simply Google it and realize they are incorrect. I told them to stop watching my channel and leave me alone.

Now the comment itself is not necessarily bad, but I don’t like to respond in general, and it leaves me in a situation where they could find me, considering my information is public and do something to me, which I don’t want.

i’m also mad at myself that I let something get under my skin. I know we are all human, but I just feel silly.

I realise you're probably going to shoot me down straight away, but hear me out.

I am in quite a niche vertical. I'm pretty much one of only two peple who makes in-depth, full real-world tested content about my vertical.

Obviously in the last six months, a number of AI slop channels have popped up in my vertical, with some of them getting very good views on some of their videos. Factually, though, a lot of their information is incorrect and they are stealing footage from around YouTube, including my own.

I don't currently have the bandwidth to produce any more content myself, however, I am very confident I could make much better, factually correct AI slop which would be an improvement on what exists and it wouldn't be stealing other people's content.

I know more AI slop is generally thought of as bad but given it exists and it isn't going away, I wonder if correct AI slop would be better overall.

My main worry is that obviously the channel would be linked to my account. I would be a little bit concerned about Google demoting my main account in the background if it decides to tighten up its AI slop checks.

Thoughts?

I have a channel with 81k subs and since the end of last year my views dropped so bad that now I barely got 1k views per video. And I lose more subs each day.

I'm a 100% sure that my channel is shadowbanned. I have a channel about self improvement, I also show myself in key moments of the narration but with a mask on so I can stay faceless. After each yt update it got worse and worse. I try to touch the topics that people like but also come with new topics so people won't get bored.

I never had a strike or a warning.

I'm curious if anybody had this issue before and if they managed to fix it.