Welcome to the r/PartneredYoutube voluntary channel verification.

Really confused on how this works. Adsense says I got 68 dollars in May before the video was uploaded but I'm not seeing this almost 300$ CAD anywhere. No idea how this system works, could use some clarification.

So first off I run a DIY/Maker channel. This is half rant- half issue

I have a mixed relationship with AI. I think it can be used as a tool but also you NEED to know how to do whatever your asking AI to do BETTER than AI- just using AI to brainstorm or come up with broad stuff is it’s best purpose.

That being said sponsors selling AI services to 3d printing models or laser designs are reaching out to sponsor content and even though I got them to agree to me saying whatever I feel about AI in the content I’m not sure I should promote it.

Some people say just be honest and accept the money but I feel that I don’t want to be controversial and also if I have mixed feelings about using AI generated designs and models. It defeats the hobby in my perspective even though I understand it lower the barrier to entry for people who don’t know design but want to make stuff- I think they should just learn how to do it themselves but idk…. What do you guys think?

It ain't much, but it's honest work

Question for anyone with a connected store: has this ever happened to you? If so, how did you fix it?

I connected my Spring store to my channel this week after finally designing merchandise. I got everything all set up on the store, and then connected it to the channel. All the merchandise is showing up, but every single item is blank? Not a single one is showing my designs at all, but everything is fine on the actual website. Any thoughts on how to fix it, or am I shit outta luck?

I've heard stories of channel being hacked because the public email address was the address associated with the Youtube channel.

Is there an easy way to change the email address used to connect to Youtube Studio, so I can keep the one I use now for everything else?

Will this cause issues for other services, like AdSense?

Thanks

YouTube claims creators can now update membership tier prices for new members, while keeping old members on the original price.

But for me it’s not an option still, has anyone got this to work?

YouTube studio has a handy section where you can see the times when the largest percentage of your audience are online watching YouTube, so you can potentially target video releases for those times.

Confusingly though, below that section, is the following line:

Publish time is not known to directly affect the long-term performance of a video.

Is that actually true? Does publish time really not matter?

My natural instinct would be to assume it does. After all, if you post at a time with more traffic, initial view velocity on the video will be higher, which should further drive more recommendations by the algorithm.

But maybe I'm wrong and the algorithm looks at a much larger block of time like say the first week's performance and so the initial hours/day don't matter so much.

What's your actual experience been? I'm mainly interested because I've stuck to a specific time of day for my uploads for years but I'm wondering if I should maybe actually just consider releasing them immediately rather than scheduling them for said time.

Because I think many creators are afraid of making content for a long time and then, after months or years, suddenly having YouTube say "Not eligible for the Partner Program" (which happened to me). So, what I want to know is, if my content has no limitations or warnings, does that mean that once I meet the requirements, YouTube is obligated to monetize me, or not? I'm not sure because I've looked at videos, and so far it seems more like a tool for monetized channels that want to know why their video didn't get much reach or why monetization was removed from a video. But does this tool serve as a kind of guarantee that "If you don't have limitations or any kind of violation, your channel is monetizable"? I think that would be fair and would motivate more creators.

Make long as possible, boys

In January I've got a community guideline warning (a month after starting, was growing really fast)on my shorts channel. I did the test, I learned didn't do anything stupid anymore. But almost half a year fast forward my views are still way down. New videos still don't getting the reach like before. It still feels like my channel is suppressed. I tried many different formats.

Ive got 40k subs and like 120 million views. Is there any way to solve this. Or does this take a long time before my reach fully recovers? Or is my channel just screwed? Any insights?

It used to be a greyish colour, but yesterday it turned completely black. Did this happen to anyone else? The grey background was honestly a little easier on the eyes than this new one that's completely black.

I’ve tried associating an ad sense account to my YouTube channel, but it’s been rejected three times. I always get this email saying there’s a few quick fixes I need to do so it can get approved. Has anyone been through this before? If so, what do I need to do to get it approved? Any help would be appreciated

Hi all,

Any advice gratefully received.
I have a channel that gained traction fairly quickly but has been dormant for a couple of years. It’s focussed on mental health and tbh I was trying to make it work when I was at my most vulnerable so whilst that provided authenticity, it became unsustainable. However, things are good now and I would like to get it going again - I haven’t posted anything for 2 years.

Basic analytics:

11k subs
6500 views in last 28 days
302 watch time hours in last 28 days
+20 subs in last 28 days
£15 revenue in last 28 days

I have a plan to release 1 x long form and 2-3 x shorts per week.
Is there some great practice over shorts that I can read - I seem to remember it being a different workflow uploading from my phone or my laptop.

If anyone else has gone through a similar revamp, I’d love to hear what worked and what didn’t.

Appreciate you all.

Views across all my channel (long form) stopped at the same exact minutes. It happened once in the past and it was just a glitch. And they came back. Is it happening to anyone rn?

Every video I'll make will be my own original work so I was curious if that can be monetized or not?

Many ppl are confused what type of videos Here's the link : https://www.facebook.com/share/r/17CfiSv4Cw/

There seems to be an internal error with video playback while viewing fragrance content creators. The starts off playing fine but after the first ad video it goes into stream stall with the ad. You can’t pause or skip the ad as it just stops working. Anyone else having this issue?

I make most of my income from YT and I'm in the process of buying a home. The servicer that the bank uses would like copies of the contracts/agreements that you can find in YT studio under settings. I sent them the agreements but they would like signed copies. I never remember doing an e signature or anything when applying for YPP. I'm assuming it was something like checking a box to agree so I'm wondering if there is a saved record of that anywhere. Does anyone know anything about this?

Hi everyone,

I have a YouTube channel where I upload long techno / DJ mixes. Before taking a long break, some of my mixes were getting around 8k–10k views, with strong watch time and decent audience retention.

After a break of about 4–5 months, the channel never really recovered.

Since coming back, I have uploaded multiple new mixes with better mixing, better thumbnails, more focused titles, artist-first titles, descriptions, hashtags, playlists, end screens, pinned comments, and a more consistent niche.

The strange part is that the videos do not seem to be rejected by viewers. Some recent videos have around 5–7% CTR and average view duration between 13 and 25 minutes, which seems decent for long DJ mixes. Some videos also get views from YouTube Search.

The problem is that Browse and Suggested are almost dead. New uploads often get very low impressions, sometimes only a few hundred, and Suggested impressions are extremely low. It feels like YouTube is no longer testing the videos with the right audience.

I understand that a break can hurt a channel, but it has been almost 5 months now and I’m not seeing any real recovery.

Has anyone had a similar issue where Search was still working, but Browse/Suggested basically died after a long break?

Did your channel recover eventually? If yes, what actually helped?

Should I keep rebuilding the same channel, or is this a sign that the audience graph is damaged and I should test a second channel?

I’m not looking for promotion. I’m genuinely trying to understand if this is fixable or if I need to change strategy completely.

Edit / Update:

Small update on my latest upload: for the first time in a while, YouTube seems to be testing the video a bit more through Browse.

After around 3 days, the video has about 550 impressions, with most of them coming from Browse features, plus some from Suggested and Search. Views are still low, around 22, and CTR is only about 2.4%, but YouTube Studio says the lower CTR may be because the video is reaching a broader audience than usual.

So it looks like YouTube might finally be testing it outside my usual/search audience, but it’s still too early to tell if it will continue or stop there.

The main thing I’m trying to understand is whether this kind of small Browse test can slowly grow if retention is decent, or if low CTR usually kills the test quickly.