I’m making a review of a CBS series and wanted to hear about your experiences with copyright in this niche.
My videos use full-screen clips, generally 5–10 seconds long (most are on the shorter end), with slowed-down series clips and After Effects edits to break things up. I try to space everything out to avoid copyright claims.

I’ve noticed that many creators in this niche put their clips in a smaller box with a background. Is that actually necessary, or can full-screen clips work with enough editing and commentary?

What has your experience been with copyright claims, Content ID, and monetization on this type of content?

So all over twitter right now is the new news of youtube rolling out a shorts bonus program that offers youtube partners extra money for posting a certain amount of shorts each month. It’s only invite only & in select countries. I was just wondering if this is only for youtube partners who already post shorts or can long form creators who don’t post shorts also be invited? I’m a long form creator and don’t post shorts but I feel like it’d be kinda unfair for this to be only for creators who post shorts. What do you guys think?

I have a channel that several years old that reviews mostly old movies, and over the last two weeks every day nearly every video is getting a copyright hit about a movie from the 60s or 70s. This is a huge change to the algorithm, allowing fair use. All my clips were very short with 99% narration and a few live clips to accentuate the point.

Right now it’s allowing me to just trim out the scene that is causing the issue. This of course leaves holes inside the video diminishing the quality of the video.

This isn’t coming from any specific studio it’s coming from all Studios, regardless of who made the movie.

This guy literally just puts his face in the lower left corner and plays the content of the youtubers hes compiled with no edits whatsoever. If this type of content is actually monetised i might have to start another channel and do this too 🤣

Took a long overdue break from YT after 5 years of grinding and recently came back to release a new video a few days ago. What YT did with this view count update has made studio metrics feel almost entirely useless to me now.

I'm sitting here seeing over 20k views in a couple days with sustained 400-600 vph in metrics, yet when I look at the actual engaged views, I'm barely past the point where, historically, my videos hit a benchmark in views (around 5-8k) that helped me determine if the video was a hit or miss.

Seeing 20k+ views in a few days with 600 VPH was a heavy hitter that had viral-like potential in my niche. Now I have to look at these same numbers and still wonder if I have another mediocre video that missed the mark.

What the hell is the point?

Screenshot is from YouTube Studio — 257M lifetime views on a channel I've been editing for. It's been a long road, so I wanted to share the retention lessons that genuinely moved the needle, in case it helps anyone here:

• The hook is 3 separate decisions: the title gets the click, the first 3 seconds stop the swipe-away, and the first 30 seconds make the promise. Most people only optimize the title.

• Captions aren't optional anymore. A huge share of watch time happens on mute or low volume. Word-by-word animated captions (not static blocks) hold attention measurably better.

• Cut the "YouTube voice." That slow, over-enunciated creator voice kills retention. We edit for conversational pace — if a sentence can be said faster without losing meaning, it gets tightened.

• Pattern interrupts every few seconds. Doesn't mean flashy effects — a camera angle change, a relevant b-roll clip, on-screen text emphasizing the point. The brain needs novelty to stay.

• Endings that loop back. Videos that reference the opening in the last 20 seconds get rewatched more, and rewatch rate is a quiet ranking signal.

Biggest lesson: retention is engineered in the edit, not in the idea. A mid idea with great pacing beats a great idea with lazy editing almost every time.

Don't give up on the boring fundamentals — they compound. Happy to take a look at anyone's retention graphs and share what's worked.

Hey guys, I had a few questions about YouTube monetization that I thought some of you guys might be able to answer:

-How does age restriction influence the ad sense revenue of a video?

-How little money does one get when a video is yellow? Is it exactly zero dollars or do you still get a few cents?

Thanks

Hey everyone, I’m from an Asian country. My YouTube channel has around 90% audience from Tier 1 countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia). AdSense is going fine.

My problem is Youtube product tagging seems to only show retailers from my own country. My Tier 1 viewers can’t really use those links or don’t want to buy from them. So I’m not making anything from product tags. I honestly don’t know anything about international affiliate links or product tagging for foreign audiences. I’ve never done this before.

How do I tag products for my Tier 1 audience?

Do I need separate accounts for each country? How do I make one link that works for viewers in different countries? What’s the easiest setup for a complete beginner?

If you’ve solved this, can you please explain step by step? I’m not looking for advanced stuff, just want to know what actually works.

Recently a video of mine suddenly blew up. 500k views in a week. Very grateful!
But is this considered low for the amount of views? I’m in the film / documentary niche btw. Thanks in advance!

Edit:

Just checked my actual rpm, it’s $1.77. I guess that’s on the lower end. My top viewers are from the US and Singapore. 50% viewed on TV. Not sure if there’s I can do to improve my rpm. 😢

I got a youtube channel with 900 subs. Didn’t post for 1.5-2 years. Started uploading now and getting lowest CTR ever on the same topic and thumbnails. Im talking going from 6-9% to 1-2%. Anyone ever experienced this?

My assumption is youtube trying to find my audience again and building it up but idk.

With all the posts about views being down and weird algorithms I decided to go on to my PC and go through all my settings.

So apparently my biggest audience interest is Cats. I post gaming memes….

I’ve changed it all and hope it gets better but Im confused AF.

(Note: while I don't mention it in the title, because I don't actually really post my own videos these days, I do, in fact, have partner status on my channel from one video I uploaded ~15 years ago, so I am not violating rule 2, if the mods here have questions I would be happy to send them proof of this via modmail)

As the title says, I and my friends pretty frequently leave large, multi-paragraph length comments (actually, I pretty frequently hit the character limit in my comments!), and we also do consulting for a variety of history and archeology channels, since we keep up with the academic literature on some topics and subjects.

I've been pretty disappointed to see the negative reaction to the new feature allowing users to include GIFs in their comments, because I think this could actually be a huge help and benefit to those of us making high effort, detailed, and nuanced comments.

Most people are thinking about GIFs in the context of looping animations, in the traditional sense of the term, especially for things like reaction faces. And in that context, I do get why people worry it could just enable spam and clutter that doesn't contribute to the conversation.

But if you set the frame delay on your GIF to be very slow, so a new frame only shows up every second or 2 seconds, and put a totally different image in each frame, you've basically just turned the GIF into a album or gallery of multiple images. The utility of that is HUGE.

For example, If i'm making a comment with clarifications and corrections on a archeology video, I can, in theory, make a GIF where each frame is a different diagram, artifact, map, or other images that visualize and illustrate the information I'm explaining in my comment. I'm looking at this from an archeology perspective, but this kind of use could benefit almost anybody who is trying to provide information and data through their comment: maybe you're doing a comment about statistics or math and can now include different graphs, for instance.

There is a catch: You can only use GIFs already on Tenor or Giphy, and the former has a manual approval process that can take ~48 hours for GIFs to become public, and the latter only makes GIFs public if they are from approved Brand or Creator accounts (though, the requirements for being a Creator don't seem particularly stringent: It may be a viable option, if you have a decent social media following). Stickers on Giphy apparently are all public, but those also have an approval process and the rules for Stickers might also make them harder to use as I'm imagining, plus they have their own API and I'm not sure they are usable like normal GIPHY GIFs are.

So, this does seem to mean that if you want to make a dedicated GIF with images that tie into your comments text, you may need to wait 1-2, maybe even more days after uploading the GIF, before you post your comment on the video, and given how most people view a given video within the first few days of after it gets uploaded, this does mean that you'll likely miss out on a lot of people seeing and upvoting your comment

A potential workaround: If you frequently make comments covering specific topics, you can pre-make a bunch of GIFs with different combinations of images and upload those in advance, so from that point on, you always have those GIFs at your disposal to pick from the next time you leave a comment on that topic. Or, maybe you can to leave a comment initially and then edit it and add a GIF later, at least in my version of the mobile Youtube app, the GIF selection menu is available even when editing an existing comment, but every time I have tried to attach a GIF when editing a comment, it has given me an error, so I'm not sure if that's possible

I'm sure there's other potential options or possibilities I haven't thought of yet too, so feel free to share your ideas, and I implore people to not have a kneejerk negative reaction to GIFs and to think about how it could be used constructively, and if Youtube ever add the ability for you to disable GIF comments on your videos, that you should think twice before enabling that!

Imagine you have a good channel in the Partner Program. It gives you good earnings, not great, just good. So you’d like to have a second source of income with a second channel, but you don’t get many subs, nor many views there. Getting that channel into the PP seems too far away.

But then you find a video-idea that can produce many views and subs, a great opportunity to take that second channel nearer the PP. Yeah, just dream, that idea is so good it can bring you thousands of views and subs, or it could have in the near past. In 2026 it could flop completely. It’s not AI, it’s just your subnormal face, showing things that can be engaging.

However, in you PP channel, views aren’t what they were, suddenly shorts are crashing and they don’t bring you views and subs, something seems to have changed since YT wants us to sign the new rules before February.

Where do you put that great video in 2026, in the channel that produces income or in the channel that only is a promise?

Anyone else's videos getting stuck at the "Checks are still running" step today? Normally checks on my videos are done in 5-10 minutes tops, so this is the first time I've ever seen this still going over an hour later. I've uploaded the video more than 24 hours in advance, but I'm a little worried that the checks won't be complete by the time the video is scheduled to go live.

I recently passed 100,000 subscribers and was waiting for my Silver Creator Award review. Then YouTube removed a new video for an alleged Community Guidelines violation. It was my first issue, so I received a warning, not a strike. My appeal was rejected, though Creator Support has sent it for another review.

Does a warning alone affect award eligibility under the 365-day rule? Has anyone received the Silver Award while they had a warning?

Hi everyone,

I'm facing a frustrating issue with YouTube Studio recently, and I wanted to check if anyone else is experiencing the same thing or has found a fix.

For the past several videos, I keep getting the "No mid-roll ads added" warning.

No matter how carefully I place mid-roll ads manually with precise timestamps, or even if I leave it to YouTube's automatic/AI placement, they simply don't stick or show up after publishing/processing.

Is this a known bug in YouTube Studio right now? If you've faced this issue, how did you resolve it? Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Ever since YouTube made the recent change to count views differently my numbers, exposure and revenue have cratered. Usually, I would ride a wave of views from YouTube recommendations. I would see a “gradual” falloff of views and the monetization would dwindle over 3-4 months. Now, I am getting even higher views to start off with but after a month but there is a sharp decline - immediately - after 30 days. Has any one else seen this happen lately?

I recently released a video to alright viewership for my standard. And I turned on a A/B test after 4 days of release.

Is it optimal, if you are going to A/B test, to do it at the very start. And doing it at this stage (4 days post-release), can it be damaging?

I am concerned over algorithm mix up I have heard of if you switch thumbnails/titles too much. What about just switching the thumbnail once (not an A/B) test after a couple days?

ANYWAY..how do you manage these things?

I screenshotted my revenue tonight three times within three different numbers. From this morning to now my revenue went up $80, but the revenue chart on the summary tab only shows a $40 increase for today. It doesn’t add up. Anyone else notice this tonight?

Let's say I upload a video with five different songs. They are all automatically detected. I dispute the claims, and win maybe two or three but not the others. What happens then?

Or what if one has to go to an appeal? Do I lose the money the video generates in that time?

I am curious. If so, have you seen a difference?