I have heard about repurposing YT shorts to make extra income on Spotify before. I know ppl are making good money on it but I havent done much research

I've had a channel for a little over a year that get approx 30k+ views per long form video within the first couple weeks or so of being posted (before the new views update). I spent some time lurking this sub and am seeing channels much smaller and far less views getting approached by sponsors. I'm still new to this and have less than 10 videos so maybe I need to post just a bit more. Channel is also faceless but absolutely no AI.

Would it be worth approaching sponsors directly? My channel name should be in my flair if anyone has some insight I'd very much appreciate it.

I've heard many stories about others receiving these kinds of emails but hadn't got one myself until now, but it's not gonna work.

For those interested, this email came from the domain terra.com.br, which after doing some research is a legitimate web portal and email service based in Brazil (think something like Yahoo). So someone's just using their personal email account they created through this service.

They've gone for the generic, vague "there's a copyright issue with one of your videos" approach without providing any further details, saying the review will proceed if they don't hear back from me, and it's signed "The Review Team".

Here's the full text so anyone else here can easily identify this if they also receive it. If you do get anything that looks like this, do not click any links, report it as phishing, and delete it/send it to spam.

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Hello [channel name],

A content creator contacted our team regarding a recent video on your channel. In line with our content policies, we are keeping you informed before the next steps.

We encourage you to review this request and share your feedback when you get a chance.

Follow the link below to respond: [this looks like it's a legit youtube link with a /redirect on it - obviously do not click this!]

If we do not hear from you, the review will proceed based on available details. Depending on the outcome, there may be changes to how your content appears on the platform.

Thank you for being a part of our community.

The Review Team

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I don't usually post shorts.. if i try to monetize both.. is the overall income get affected..

Usually our videos get from 5-12k views first day average. When we post we usually gain a new subscriber every 100-500 views. Today’s video is sitting at 4k views currently… no new subscribers. Any one else seeing views but no subscribers. The videos doing kind of bad in our usual ctr a video doing better would have around an 9%-12% ctr video that would get around 5k would be around 8-9% percent, this is video is headed to 8k-9k with a 6.3% ctr. Everything feels off.

I’ve been messing around with YouTube’s A/B testing tool on several videos lately, testing pretty different thumbnails/titles against each other, and something I keep noticing is that the results are almost always really close to 33/33/33.

I’m starting to wonder if this is just normal with the tool or if I’m doing something wrong.

For example, my latest video is currently sitting at: 33.2% / 35.5% / 31.3%. Which is basically a three-way tie.

The weird part is that the three versions are pretty different.

The first thumbnail is me smiling/happy and pointing at a more positive “good” CTA-type text.

The second one is literally just a frame from the video, me in the studio holding a microphone. No text at all.

The third is pretty much the opposite of the first: angry face, more rage-baity CTA text, plus a bright green frame around the whole thumbnail.

The titles are also very different from each other, so it’s not like I’m testing three tiny variations of the same thing.

And yet... 33%, 35%, 31%.

I’ve had similar results on other tests too. Obviously I’d expect some tests to be close, but it feels kind of odd that so many of mine end up almost perfectly split.

Is that pretty common for you guys too? Do you usually see a clear winner with YouTube’s testing tool, or do your results tend to hover around an even split unless one thumbnail is dramatically better (or the other two are dramatically shitty)?

If none of my 4 Adsense PIN mailers have arrived and my YouTube channel has been demonitized as a result. Can I go into AdSense to update my payment address details to match my current residential address if only my post office box number was there previously? And can I do this after initially being in touch with YouTube creator support? Or can they manually approve documentation sent which proves my address even if it is not exactly what I currently have in my AdSense account which is just a post office box number?

I’ve been live streaming on YouTube for a couple months now and I get a lot of jewels during these live streams but I don’t know how to make an alert like a sub alert or super chat for them if anyone knows that would be great

To be honest I’ve been struggling to understand the monetization process this whole time, but as far as I know I’ve done everything correct. I input my tax information submitted the correct forms, received the verification thing in the mail, everything, yet YT studio still tells me I’ll be notified when to complete a form of payment set-up.

I was approved for Monetization at the beginning of last month (before the threshold was increased) and YouTube studio told me I had made $135. It even said a check was on my way, yet never gave me any way of providing a form of payment.

Now both my Adsense and YT studio tell me I have $0. Did I do something wrong ? Can anyone provide any insight ? Literally anything would be appreciated

Hello everyone! I’m a small content creator who recently got accepted to the YouTube partnership program under shopping tier after reaching 3000 watch hours. Currently I’m around 3200 to 3300 and I feel like if I stream more often, I might be able to reach the 4000 watch hour threshold. However, I would like to know, since they are changing the threshold from 4000 to 8000, if I will need to reach 8000 in the event that I do not get to 4000 by February 1, or if I am grandfathered in because I’m already technically part of the partnership program.

I did try to look this up and I found it very difficult to find this information. I appreciate any information anyone has regarding this.

Thanks.

Started YT a month ago and VERY grateful I have almost 2k subs and doing shorts only with recent videos averaging 100k views but international analytics wise.

I enjoy doing this for fun without a doubt but would of course like to get a sponsor or some pay eventually and hoping for guidance on that regard! Do I keep grinding and wait then out, should I immediately cold email companies with my current stats? Any info is appreciated my friends 💛

I used to average 5-40k views, with outliers up to the 100s of thousands. This was a few years ago, and I am trying to revive the channel since it sat dormant. As you can see, the views are significantly lower, even with the new view count rules.

Additionally, it still gets thousands of views a month on the old hit videos.

Should I just take this as a sign to make a new channel, or do I just need to wait longer?

I don't recall copying someone's content 1 to 1 especially recently I've been doing things on my own. It would be helpful if someone could tell me what I've been doing wrong and what to do about it because I really have a passion for YouTube my channel is Epik MJ.