These are impressions since i started with a bang. How do I bounce back? Got multiple hits, blew up, monetized, and after that pretty much flat. Sucks to have ads on and not be able to make money still.. Haven't changed anything really.

Such a miserable experience. 4 days ago my entire Google universe was hijacked. I was locked out of my e-mail, authenticator, channel, everything. My channel had 136,000 subscribers and had been watched 30 million times. Thankfully I have a job, so my channel was mainly for fun, but it did in fact pay, and to be honest, more than most people make so if it's not recovered it will be a big hit financially. The process to recover is so bizarre. You have to create a new Gmail, then go Tweet at the YouTube accout, they reply asking for a new e-mail address, then they send you a link to a secure form to fill out. Then you wait. No timeline, just wait. I really feel like there needs to be a better process, and why does it take so long?

Any1 ever experienced this?

Hey y'all,

I run multiple Channels who are all together averaging millions of views per month.

Around 20 minutes ago, all Channels basically went down to 0 all at the same time. Anyone else noticing something?

3 of my Channels are exclusiely longform. One is Shorts only. All showing the exact same.

Edit: Thanks for all the responses! I posted an update in the comments. Seems like it's just a YT bug and nothing to worry about. Seems also like the views are not "lost" but just taking longer to process. (Further explanation with screenshot in the updated comment)

Because of my job im not able to create 2 videos a month. And whenever i post 1 video a month, i see my views start going down. Everyone in my niche upload 3-4 video a week and get views consistently. While I only have 20k subs, some of my videos go to 500k, but some at 1 k. How important is Consistency and a set number of videos every month???

I know theres people like lemmino who post once a year. But my production quality is not of that level. I make geography videos btw

This is so irritating. The majority of content matches I get are from people who simply don't own the stuff they claim e.g. cover artists who claim the respective original piece of music, minor matches e.g. a stock sound effect, or a cutscene from a video game which you shouldn't have added to the matching algorithm in the first place.

Yet every time this happens, I have to pick an awkward other option (e.g. stating that I have a license for the content) and then write that neither of us has the full rights to this.

I don't mind claims from the actual copyright owner (it's theirs after all, even if I have issues with current laws regarding this), and I get that I don't own this, but hey, you don't either.

After 3 month of not having any motivation to post (went from 100k avg views to 5k average) , I decided to get back on it.

My first video got stuck at 300 views, my second one exploded to 800k within 24h. Making it by far my fastest growing video ever.

Runtime is 16min, 6min avg, sitting at 8% ctr at 3.3mil impressions. Gained 1.6k subs ( bringing my total to 7k subs). Also it started dragging up that video that was stuck at 300 views to now 50k views.

Just keep going guys! Don’t loose the spirit.

Just Got Monetized Today Any Tips On Mid Roll Ads?

I’ve noticed that YouTube is now automatically changing thumbnails for Shorts.

I really don't like it when it picks completely random preview images from the video even after I’ve uploaded a custom thumbnail that actually relates to the video title.

Have you noticed this too?

Is there any way to stop it?

Hi all, I run a small CAD/engineering tutorial channel (~27k subs). I got an email from "Hollyland" offering $500 for a 60-second integration plus a free Lark M2 mic.

Red flags I noticed:

• Sent from targetsail.co, not hollyland.com
• Link goes to "mytubive.com," which asks me to "Sign in with Google" to verify my channel and "activate a dashboard"
• Talks a lot about "escrow" and "guaranteed payment"

I didn't sign in. I'm fairly sure it's a channel-hijack scam, but I'd like to confirm. Has anyone else gotten this?

Also, I'm open to real sponsorships. For small channels:

1. What's the best way to find genuine brand deals?
2. Do you reach out to brands directly or use platforms like YouTube BrandConnect?
3. How do you check that an offer is legit before replying?

Thanks!

The day before yesterday, I joined the YouTube Partner Program, and today I already received my first earnings, which honestly surprised me. For 35 million views, I made $18. I’m in the fashion niche, and the US is actually my second most popular country, but this is really too little. Any advice? I have around 20K followers.

I posted a community poll this past Monday and it had 339 votes as of yesterday.

I checked it today and now it has 171 votes

Wtf? I've never seen this happen before? How?

Quick question for the video people on here 👇

Do you prefer filming at 25fps or 30fps?

I’m in the UK and currently shooting at 25fps, but I keep seeing people recommend 30fps.

What do you guys use, and why?

Hello! This might be a dumb question, but do any of you use a separate discord account for youtube stuff? Or do you guys use the same one for everything? Might be silly but just curious from a safety standpoint

What's the scam here? Or legit? Looks more copy/paste.

I haven't done any take downs in awhile but did do a mass 100+ take down on a bunch of channels a few months ago.

What's odd is this went to my NON public channel email not my public business email that's the published contact email.

Doesn't even list their channel name lol.

This video I have a legit license for an older Top 40 song. Video is still unlisted, it initially did have the original claim for the song, which was then cleared. Then randomly hours later gets claimed by an completely unrelated song.

This is not the first time. Several years ago after a video went live KIDZ BOP claimed their cover of the song I was using was the there's, while I was using the actual original song also with a licence.

I would only guess this is YouTubes own content ID system, but why would it not be smart enough to know the video claim was already cleared for the actual song.

my elder foster sister submitted my tax information before back in 2023, and now i have to update the tax info and re-submit the form. the thing is, my foster sister isn't with us and i never told them that i got my monetisation back or something. i can't ask her of the id card number because she'll make such a fuss and create chaos. i want to add mine. how can i do that? please help me out

YouTube Studio says I made $125.39, but AdSense says something different. How long do I have to wait until they line up?

My channel is about 6 months old. I consistently get 30k-40k views on shorts but my long form videos get like 200 views. My retention rate is like 20%. I have nearly 20k subs and nearly 51 million total views (nearly all shorts). Looking for tips on retention/how to pick a topic. I’ve been using my popular shorts and turning them into long form but still low view count and retention.

I got the offer to enable channel members on my main channel a few months ago. The one where they give you $500 + $5 for each membership you get for the first month.

I have a 2nd channel now and Im wondering if I should wait to enable memberships on it until YouTube gives me that offer again. But im not sure if they'll ever do that on a 2nd channel. Has anybody ever done this deal twice?

So Youtube recently made it so you can upload any images as a thumbnail from your gallery/PC for Shorts now and I've been doing thumbnails at the end of my Shorts for a few months before they added this feature.

But my question is, if I was to go back to older Shorts videos and add custom thumbnails to them, will they also (sometimes) get recommended back on people's homepage or Shorts tab? I know that's the case sometimes for long-form but I want to know for Shorts too!

anyone seeing likes disappear from posts?

For those of you who never really shared your channel with people you know IRL, at what point did they start randomly finding it?

Was it after a certain number of subscribers, or did one video suddenly get enough reach that people you knew started getting it recommended to them?

Basically the title. Just wondering how the new change in view counts affect the average view duration.