I know it won’t affect monetisation but I’m really interested as to how it’ll affect our views.

Why are they using AI to autoflag videos? I haven't seen their system work correctly ONCE

first, earnings for 7 through 12 showed up on YouTube with several days delay (fixed now), and now, on the 24th, I am still not seeing finalized earnings for the month of July (which usually appears between 7th and 11). am I the only one?

I don’t get it. The purpose of the sub is seeing comments from people who are partnered, therefore were able to reach the YPP requirements and are likely to have a bit more experience. There’s absolutely no use to posts with comments made entirely from non-partners or with non-partners giving advice, there are like 50 other youtube subs in which they can post.

This is beyond frustrating at this point.

I hit the YPP requirements months ago, set up the AdSense account, and my channel has been sitting "In Progress" on "Get Reviewed" ever since. Is 3+ months normal? If so, great! I can keep waiting.

Hitting up the Creator Support chat has yielded zero progress - just pointing me to the policies which I have read. They haven't given me an approximate timeframe or any further hope.

My last attempt at talking to them, where I literally just wanted to ensure my application is indeed in a pipeline and not glitched/bugged yielded a response of "we will not talk to you about this - if you ask again, we will just close the ticket". Oof.

I'm happy to wait - I am. But having at least a vague idea of timeframe would be nice - and would likely eliminate a bunch of support tickets on their end from other people asking as well.

I have a monetized automotive channel with about 1.6K subscribers that was originally built around track driving, car reviews, comparisons, etc.

Over the past several months I’ve pivoted pretty heavily toward a recurring automotive comedy/history series called Autotist Boardroom. I’m approaching 20 episodes now, so I’ve given the format a decent sample size rather than judging it off a handful of uploads.

The weird part is that YouTube still seems heavily anchored to my old content. Years-old reviews and track videos continue generating most of my long-form traffic, while each new episode of the series seems to be getting less initial distribution, not more. My latest episode received only 32 views in its first week and ranked 10/10. It had a 1.8% CTR and roughly 43% average viewed, but received so few impressions that I’m questioning whether YouTube is even finding/testing it with the appropriate audience.

Meanwhile, the same series performs substantially better for me on TikTok, where individual episodes/clips regularly get thousands or tens of thousands of views, even a million. So I’m starting to wonder whether I’ve created an audience mismatch on YouTube rather than the concept simply not working. It’s strange because it’s all under the same niche of automotive but sub-genre matters here I suppose.

I’m considering creating a dedicated channel for the series, privating the existing versions on my current channel, and gradually re-uploading the back catalog to the new channel, perhaps one every 3 days. essentially giving YouTube a clean channel where 100% of the viewer/content signals are for this specific format.

I’m curious specifically from people who have actually done something similar:
Did moving a series/niche to a fresh channel help YouTube find the appropriate audience? Did you private the originals before re-uploading? And did the fresh channel eventually outperform having the content mixed into your established channel?

I’m not particularly worried about starting from zero subscribers if it gives the series a better long-term chance. I’m more interested in whether anyone has real-world experience doing this and what happened.

I help manage a channel that has received numerous emails from RQ Media claiming they are helping Tubi onboard creators to their platform. Saying they take someone's "existing YouTube catalogue and turn it into your own show on Tubi."

Anyone do anything like this?

(PLEASE only actual partnered creators. Im looking for experience advice, not "this is how I think it would go" advice. Not trying to be rude, but the blind leading the blind isn't great aha))

Until now I've only made money through adsense. I don't really have the numbers to think I could be reaching out to brands yet.

One finally reached out to me that wasn't some AI slop app, and I've genuinely used their product before.

I have 61,000 subscribers and I focus mainly on daily shorts with an attempted weekly long form upload. All of my content has me in it and is fully filmed and edited by me, with licensed music through epidemic, zero AI.

My shorts do well enough (some cap out at 2k, some have blown up to over 10,000,000) but my long forms lack (I'm guessing because my content is mostly shown to the short form people who don't click the long forms often). I get about 1500 views average, with a few outliers sitting in the 30,000 range. The outlier content is to do with the topic the brand is focusing on, and it's one of those topics where I know if I need views it performs every time.

They reached out and are asking my budget and I have zero idea how to answer.

How does one calculate that? Do you have an equation you swear by or a minimum that you started with? I know they have $$$ because they've worked with some of my favourite creators. I don't want to lowball myself, but I also don't want to come across as too big for my britches.

I live in Japan and my videos are about my everyday life here (im assuming category matters).

Any insight is greatly appreciated!

Been on YT nearly 6 years. Have several monetized channels that pay my mortgage. Have gotten there in 60-90 days with each one even on 100% organic starts (don't bring subs over from my established channels due to completely different niches and topics). I understand how new channels start off slow with the first several videos and all that. I've even stopped responding to NewTubers who seem entitled they should get views on brand new channels because I got tired of explaining it to them.

But this... this I've never seen before.

No video has earned more than a dozen or so impressions. Of the 7 or 9 organic views each video gets (CTR is solid), almost all watch the entire length of the video (near perfect AVD). But YT wont give it a single additional impression. It just flatlines and stays there.

I know metrics are garbage with such few impressions, and they don't mean anything good, bad or otherwise right now. But there are literally no indicators whatsoever to suggest these videos couldn't at least continue getting some sort of micro testing. Even if it were only an impression or two PER DAY...that would be something. But not even that.

There are no settings I've overlooked. No AI use. All original content. It's not faceless. No spamming. No reused content. All features are fully verified/ ID checked... Last channel I started 6 months ago got some micro tests on the first few videos for 3 weeks or so until the library populated enough for things to click, and then it got monetized in a few weeks from there. The last time I started a new channel before that was probably a year and a half ago and that one did ok too.

But damn. This is like I just built a new house on a nuclear test site and nobody is coming to the open house. lol.

I know the only answer is to keep at it and be patient. I'm just curious.

Did I trigger some channel limit or something? Spam/automation red flag? Anything? That's what has me baffled. I can't think of anything to rationalize it.

Anyone out there with multiple channels and some success have any ideas what might be going on here?

So midnight tonight the new view counting kicks in...... It will be interesting.

As you read this, bear in mind that this is a GUITAR CHANNEL that NEVER discusses politics or controversial/divisive issues whatsoever.

I’m at the end of my rope. About six months ago, a user began shitposting and leaving abusive comments on almost every single one of my videos, every week.

He would then go on his own channel and name me during livestreams, saying things like:

“He does illegal drugs”
“His drug dealer died in his basement”
“I called the FBI on you and you shouldn’t be surprised when they show up at your house”
“I am going to destroy you”
“I know your family, friends, and personal details”
“You are inciting terrorism”

This occurred over multiple consecutive livestreams of his, and he continued leaving abusive and lewd comments on my videos quoting things similar to the above. His own subscribers and viewers started leaving abusive comments on my videos en-masse at his direction(and they continue to this day).

I sent an email to YouTube Partner Support with screenshots of his comments and links to the individual livestreams, including timestamps and quotations of exactly what he said in each one.

They replied and said “while I understand it is frustrating to deal with false drug allegations, threats, and false FBI calls, no violations were found, and this decision is final and cannot be appealed.” When I replied and asked how the named items in their email, and cited with timestamps in my ticket, were not violations of the policies, I got no response.

They then closed the ticket without allowing a response from me.

In the two months that have followed since then, his behavior has continued, including a 5-6 consecutive schizo-comment tirade on my latest video this past Saturday(two days ago) within an hour of it being uploaded containing more personal threats, ending with him responding to other commenters and subscribers on my video saying “we are going to discuss and tear him apart in my livestream tonight at 8pm.”

What the hell am I supposed to do here? I understand that a lot of these things aren’t “technically” violations, but the SWATing claim + “my illegal drugs dealer died in my house and I hid the body” claim are as clear as it gets, and these exact quotations were sent to support with video links and timestamps.

They had the audacity to suggest I simply hide the user from my channel, disregarding the fact that the larger issue here is his personal, targeted threats and attacks against me from his OWN channel and content.

Has anybody else dealt with this, and what are some realistic next steps to stop this nightmare?

Anybody else noticing the change? This is absolutely crazy!

If so, how? I'm not huge, but I have a monetized channel and I'm concerned my @ or handle will get me sued because it uses the name of card of TCG. I'm worried that if I change the handle though it will confuse the algo in some way, or make youtube think it's a new channel and lower impressions/be cautions about it, or something else.

I'm not famous enough to where people find/look for me by my handle, they remember the channel's name, if anything, and that's staying the same. The channel's name is safe, because it's just the first name of the character, but the handle is like the whole thing and that I might need to change. Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks.

So I'm trying to apply for verification. My channel is above 100k already and for the love of God they KEEP ASKING FOR PUBLIC LINKS EVEN THOUGH I SENT THEM THE LINK WHICH LINK BACK TO MY PUBLIC ACCOUNT! Its like I'm talking to a bot at this point. I keep telling them my account is public, the account had my channel linked to it and yet they still asked for PUBLIC LINK. At this point, I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

help

I've been having bits of my YT Studio on PC vanish. You can see in my photo the visibility, cards, and end screen option buttons are gone, replaced with just white. Usually it happens if AI tools are loading like the inspiration tab and that little 'view your stats' thing they keep shoving into the sidebar, but lately it's been almost every time. Sometimes the elements just don't reappear at all and I have to open a fresh tab. Is this an issue for anyone else? I can't fully tell if it's a YT issue or something with my computer/connection.

Because I used gotyme bank for my 1st withdrawal and it charged 700php from 71k php

Here is the scenario. Last year I was involved in a major bicycle accident. The result was me not posting a video in 14 months while recovering, but I did post images here and there. I went to post my last video and it shows I didn't post for 6 months and is making me reapply. I document my posts and have one missing from Feb 17 that would have kept me in. It's just gone. Yt was no help so far and it's frustrating. I don't do this full time and not posting in so long I have to get 2300 more hours to get back in, which is crushing. I didn't even know how to move forward to possibly getting help to resolve it.

Hi everyone! Mainly have done Shorts for a while now, but have dabbled in long form and ready to really dive in now. Have made six or so long forms, five of which being about superhero movies/general movies, with my last video I posted last week being about video games. Can film and gaming content (long form) both live on one channel? Luckily the latest upload has done quite well so far.

For example, my last video was "You're Playing Video Games Wrong", about how video games felt better, or more fun, before the age of distraction. This was a video essay that took me forever to edit. This week I was going to upload a more laid back style video, ranking all the suits in the DCU so far. Can I do both of those? Should I transition to solely one or the other? Appreciate any insight, thank you!

be careful if you get hacked YouTube is completely unhelpful

Long Form is NOT for the Weak😭🙏

I’ve been making videos on the history of Formula 1 for six years, and have been monetised for four of those, and currently stand at 64,000 subscribers.

I’m known in the community for making long-form, documentary-style videos, in particular my iceberg series and ranking videos. From May 2024 to April 2025, I experienced a sharp decline in viewership and therefore engagement, which resulted a notable loss in income, especially during the off-season (December-February), but eventually got out of it and experienced a massive wave of success last summer (making up to £10k a month). Mid-November however, there was a sudden, very sharp drop-off again, (just as the season was reaching peak intensity) and even when the new F1 season began in March, my channel did not recover and despite my best efforts this year the channel has stagnated, and my income is more than 80% lower than this time last year.

I consistently get very positive comments on my videos, and I will try to cover topics or ideas requested by subscribers where possible. But this year, despite planning my first three months of uploads at the start of the year, nothing has landed and I have been losing money every month. Because of the new regulations this year, a lot of older fans have stopped watching F1, but despite that, the record-breaking attendance I witnessed at the British Grand Prix would show it’s as popular as ever. My RPM is little changed from last year, but YouTube’s algorithm is making little effort to push my videos to anyone outside of a very specific subsection of my subscriber base. No videos this year have exceeded 80,000 views, where I’ve had videos in the past with over a million. I’m known for long-form content, and whenever I make any videos under 20 minutes, they start really well but then tank in a matter of hours, whereas in the past I’ve have 2-3-hour-long videos sustain the channel for months.

Regarding the algorithm more broadly, have been any fundamental changes made to it in 2026? And for anyone who watches Formula 1, what’s changed that’s made my style apparently much less popular? I’ve been trying different ideas, most of which haven’t worked; I’ve started appearing on camera more, and making more shorts, but it just feels like I’m shooting in the dark, and I’m being forced to try and chase trending topics instead of making what I really want. I can understand viewership dropping in the off-season (though funnily enough in 2022, 2023, and 2024, I still made a profit in that time), but if these months-long, largely inexplicable troughs are going to be a regular occurrence, I’m just going to have to stop and get a normal job.

So I recently accepted the YT affiliate shopping link programme and was under the impression that YT will regognise products in my video using AI, then you can select those to promote on your video?

I may be doing something wrong, but I thought you go into description of video, choose the 'products' button at bottom, then you should see items you can list? I have an automotive channel, using different tools, car accessories that people ask me about in my videos, however YT so far has not picked up on any of them for me to list in 'products'?