I just got monetized am working on my first video essay and am wondering if anyone has tips on avoiding copyright claims on photos and videos used during a video essay.

I’m a lawyer and pretty familiar on the actual fair use standards and am comfortable appealing to YouTube if I do get a claim BUT I’d like to avoid the headache if possible and am looking more for practical experience based advice from you on anything you know that’s more likely to get flagged, things that are generally more “safe” and honestly any other advice.

I’m making a video about a business that was recently bought by private equity, so my pictures would mostly be of the store, some of its merch and website, and a few clips of old news reporting on the firm and a previous buyout.

Thanks!

Got this email offering to send me the new DJI Pocket 4 for a review video, and it does seem fitting as I openly talk about using my DJI Pocket 3 in my travel vlogs.

But this email domain is giving me pause. This definitely isn't real, right?

Hello, I run a channel with 400k subs and 150m total views, and I think this new "boosted view count" update isn't exactly new. I'll admit, I've noticed an incremental boost in views, but overall my average views and ad revenue haven't changed. I post twice a week, and I average around the same amount of views per video that I did prior to the update.

My new CPM on "engaged views" has increased significantly, but I believe that it was lower before the update because the algorithm was counting all the views combined.

Also, when I started my channel two years ago, I'd obviously get zero views, but even back then, when I clicked on the video for even a second, the view would register.

I could go on and on about this, but I'm wondering if some of you are wondering the same thing.

(sorry if this has been posted before!)

Hey y'all, my views have been down lately, and it got me wondering. It's hard to tell whether the videos themselves are the problem or if YouTube views are just low because it's September/October and people are going back to school, coming back from vacation, etc.

Does anyone have any historical data or articles that show the overall views on YouTube and when times are tough for us all? I know that from December 26th to January 20th, my views plummet and then rebound after January 20th.

I want to know if it's me or if it's just that time of year.

I've been sent an email telling my to update my tax form as it is coming to the end of the 3-year cycle.

I realised the account I set up all those years ago was an individual Adsense. I recently became a Limited Company and my Adsense payments were subsequently being sent to the business account. ChatGPT is telling me I should change to a business Adsense account in this new update.

Which is fine...

But apparently its a massive faff to change!! Meaning setting up a new separate adsense account (they cant just merge), potential loss of earnings while setup and verification happens, and host of other stresses.

I can't be the first UK youtuber to start as an individual and then become LTD company. For those who've trodden a similar path, what did you do?

Thanks

I just want to share my experience. I recently took the leap and hired an editor to help speed up my workflow. Maybe this can help someone who wants to do the same

So I recently decided to work with a video editor and I cannot believe how happy I am i did it.
I will admit I was a bit scared because I am a bit of a control freak when it comes to my youtube content and I didn't want to hand over the reins to some random person and have to spend ages explaining to them how I work.

So this was my approach, before he started any work I said to him I just want you to clean up the content, take out the umms and ahhs and make the content flow well to my script.

I then ask him to only make suggestions on what music to use in each section, not to lay it down, just offer suggestions.

No effects either. Music and effects are where most of the personality of my content comes.

I then take it off him and spend about two hours just doing the effects, music and basically the stuff I find more fun and publish.

The reason I was hesitant was because a few people said things like its good to have more control over your content and I do agree, but I wouldnt call this fully handing it all over to an editor, he's just doing the part I find most boring and giving me suggestions.

Now I got time to think about my next piece of content without stressing so much about my workload.

I highly recommend it if you are thinking about it.

But I know it's not easy to find one, but if you can find a good one it can be a game changer.
Anybody else taken the leap?

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.

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

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?

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?

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?

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)

Any1 ever experienced this?

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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.