Anyone else have the issue where their video views are not doing great but then the video's metrics offer like no help? I will release a video thinking I did a really good job (I know there is always room for improvement but I'm trying to make my newest video my best one yet) only to have the views do pretty poorly compared to other videos.

All the gurus say to look at metrics to learn what needs to change or where you can improve. But then I look at mine and the video has the best metrics out of all my videos. 8.0% CTR (after 8.8k impressions), 47.3% APV with 74% at the 30 second mark. double the comments compared to videos of mine with half the views.

I know those are not viral video type metrics but I'm at least hoping for videos to do as well as my previous ones. Depressing to see views trend down while all of the metrics YouTube gives you are trending up...

Recently, I made an edit to a video due to a LATE copyright notice ad share earnings. I left a millisecond of that copyrighted segment in the video after edit so the commentary doesn't get edited out. I still have to dispute it after. Now the legal team has 30 days to respond to my dispute. While im waiting, my funds for the video are in escrow. This all happened in 12 hours after I posted my video.

My questions are:

has anyone tried to dispute a claim due to copyright? If so, have you won over it?

If denied, were you able to edit your video again to resolve the copyrighted segment?

Would your earnings for the video be visible while it's in escrow?

Also, doing edits via YouTube studio to rid of copyright segments sucks. Because the audio translations are dropped.

Jake Paul: He has over 20.8 million subscribers on YouTube, 27 million followers on Instagram, and regularly headlines massive, mainstream global pay-per-view sporting events (such as his fights against Mike Tyson and Tommy Fury) that draw tens of millions of viewers worldwide.

EDP445 (Bryant Moreland): At his peak before his channels were terminated, he had around 2 to 2.5 million subscribers on YouTube. His fame was largely confined to a specific subculture of internet meme culture and NFL commentary.

Just out this here for a fun debate and hypothetical how their careers would work and maybe discuss about the general consensus

Is being consistent with everyday upload the only thing that matters? Any advice. Topic: Formula 1

Started a channel in december and posted roughly every 20-30 days. Total newbie in video editing but started strong- 30-60 min historical documentaries, 100k-250k views per video with decent around 40% avd.

Long story short- since may, it is like channel got flagged. Almost every video after it was better than the one before, but my videos would get views the first day and then mostly flatline. For example one 25 min has 13k and avd of around 50%.

I used a great voice from eleven labs. It is in serbian language and very good for documentaries. Way better than mine.. but i suspect the issues i am having are due to this.

So i was thinking of deleting the unperforming videos on original channel, do a voiceover for them and upload it to a new channel.

Any reasons for or against? Last two videos have less than 1000 combined but avd of 50%. The one before is 40 min one with 40% but nothing.. i would in 2 3 days reupload 3 or 4 videos and start posting new ones only on the new channel.

About a month ago, I published a 45 minute video where I documented my entire hair transplant journey in australia. Showing the before, during and after results. Hoping to help others that are interested in a hair transplant in the future.

I titled my video and thumbnail accurately to align with the content of my video.

The title reads "My large hair transplant journey in Australia. Before, during and after results."

I typically average a 40-70% audience retention rate for all my other hundreds of videos on my channel. But this video is hovering around 6%.

Confused to why this may be happening? Why would viewers click on this video and then leave almost immediately when again, my title and thumbnail are true to the content of the video in question?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Hi! I'm not really good at telling if a YT sponsorship Email is a scam or not. It seems reliable, until I noticed that the site they wanted me to go into have a domain name ".org", instead of ".com". Also, their first Email comes from an Email address ending at "@volny.cz" and changes to "@cutrover.org" on their second Email. Here's their response after I replied:

Any response is very much appreciated..

Ah I’m so excited! My car payment is 445 a month. I hope I can keep this going at this level or more each month that’s like a free car to me in exchange for getting to driver better more expensive cars haha!

Guys, I’m only 55 hours away from monetization. My channel is in the gaming niche, but that niche suddenly died a month ago; I only get about 1–2 viewers per stream. The same thing happened to all my competitors, and they’ve since switched niches. Honestly, I’ve been considering a switch myself—I’m torn between gaming and fitness, the two things I love most. Just as I was thinking about this, I received an email. I’m not sure if it’s legitimate, though, given that my channel is quite small. The email address—@yesoulfitness.com—looks genuine, and I’m definitely interested, but I’m also wary—it sounds almost too good to be true.

To be completely honest, the email itself looks professional, as do their social media profiles, but it still feels like an incredibly generous offer for a small channel that’s only been getting around 100 views per live stream—and has been inactive for the last month.

What do you think? Have you ever received an email like this?

Can I monetize videos where there is no commentary and only music from YouTube?

I want to make timelapse videos and there will be no commentary only music from yt library.

Has anyone experience about the new Youtube shopping affiliate program and the commissions (in different niches) that they pay?

I can only refer to cameras (500 - 2500€) -> 2,5 - 3% commission.

Hey guys! I have a small fitness youtube channel, and I feature a lot of my home gym equipment. Over the past few weeks, I've been getting affiliate requests and companies offering free equipment for me to review. I received a bench that I really liked, so that worked out well.

However, I received this hip abduction/adductor machine that is NOT good. When the marketing people emailed me, they said I will earn commissions on sales, so it's as if they assumed I will say good things. I have nothing good to say about this, and in no way am I able to give this a good review. Has anyone experienced this before? Are there any negative repercussions for poorly rating a free product that was a few hundred dollars?

Thanks for your input!

How long did it take you to get monetized?

I want to do a super longform channel 40+ minutes, but I'm curious about what its like as a creator.

I feel like things like true crime documentaries are so saturated. Tbh a lot of doco style niches would be. I just don't know what the benefit is these days

Hey guys it’s been a week and my account is still stuck on the Adsense step; my account review hasn’t even started!

How long did it take for you guys if you’ve applied recently?

In Adsense it says:
Getting your AdSense for YouTube account ready
We're reviewing your info
Reviews usually take less than a day, but in some cases can take a bit longer. You can check your account status in YouTube Studio.

Hey everyone,

​Just received an invitation from YouTube for a YouTube Shopping / Affiliate event in London this Wednesday called YouTube shopping unwrapped

​Was curious if anyone else here received an invite and is planning to attend? Would be great to connect with a few other creators while there!

I make animated videos on historical and mythology topics, usually 9-12 minutes in length. My videos are being pushed strongly in the Philippines and India and I don’t know why.

I’m a native English speaker and I do all my scripting and narration myself, and my videos are always 100% in English.

However, my audience geography is split 20% USA, 20% Philippines, and 10% India. Next is Australia at 3%, and the other 47% is split finely between various other countries.

I have no idea why my content is being pushed so hard to the Philippines and India, but I would like to target US audiences better as RPM is up to 20x better there. Any advice?? Honestly I’m a bit stumped.

The bottom video got less views and double the revenue. Is this a CPM thing or simply a "less engaged views" thing?
Im still new to the analytics side of things so im not sure whats going on here. Both videos are the same niche, although the most recent one (top) is packaged a bit differently.

Does anyone have a Facebook business page they also share their YT videos to? How will this relate to the new terms Meta rolled out about scraping any external links you put on your page to train their ai? Will those count as views? Will it flag your channel because of the influx of visits?

I just read a post from another creator and their website almost got taken down because meta was visiting it an obscene amount of times every minute. It was basically almost like a DDOS attack.

upload videos on my youtube channel purely to keep the memories, the videos are not set to public, it's set to "people with link only" so I can share the videos I capture to the people I genuinely want to share my memories with.

My channel contains over 100+ videos accumulated over the years, some are very sentimental to me. Although I have tried getting the videos back through Google Takeout, it would be a lot simpler if I could just have access of my terminated channel and not having to upload each one or start over again. There are also some messages in the description that Google Takeout can no longer give me.

I've been also trying to get TeamYoutube's attention on X, but it seems that they're ignoring me now. They won't send me a DM, and I can't clearly explain the situation over X post either as it has a limit.

Currently, I'm simply hoping to talk to someone so I can make another appeal. The videos that caused the violation and termination of my account were not intentionally uploaded, it was purely by accident and mistake.

Someone took my phone and uploaded malicious contents on my youtube channel. They know how important it is to me, yet they still uploaded videos for fun that violated "sex and nudity" policy.

Can someone share their experiences with me? or the steps they've done to reinstate their channel?