I released a video about the show Invincible, and I used scenes of it throughout the video and I didn't get a claim for the footage. I've made multiple videos on this show and the last four before this haven't been claimed.

But on my latest video I got a claim on some audio and it says I used a melody from "Invincible Main Theme by Geek Music" and I have to share revenue with them.

First off, I didn't use any of their music, nor does the show feature any of their music. Second, Geek Music is a cover artist that makes covers of music from comic book media, so it's not even THEIR melody.

I wanna dispute it but there's no option that makes sense for my situation. - ORIGINAL CONTENT - Should I say "original content" since I made the video from scratch, or is it not technically "original" since I use clips from a copyrighted show? - LICENSE - I don't have a license to the music or the show, but it's fair use. - FAIR USE - Is it considered fair use if I haven't actually USED any of the music they're saying I used? - PUBLIC DOMAIN - It's not public domain

What should I do?

Is it possible to have your store tab on your home page, but NOT show items underneath video on the merch shelf?

For pretty much every vid I do game reviews (3Min Versions - long form)

Like, I got a video at 33k views now, but like all others, even with its continuous 21% (!!) CTR even at 33k views all of the views currently keep coming from Google Search and Youtube Search

My logical question, why isn’t Browse Features rewarding this outstanding CTR and performance? Is this normal behavior? How high does it want the CTR to get before Browse Features get involved again? 80%? Lol 😂

Basically I want to make stress relief or anxiety helping guided meditations. But do channels like these even get monetized? I suspect the revenue is pretty bad too since you should not place mid-roll ads to not disrupt the meditation?

Anyone here running one?

The new Youtube CLIPS feature disappeared??? What happened?

(Clips allowed you to pull long clips from your videos and make them into separate posts)

Over the years we have been invaded by these pesky comment bots. The most irritating comment bot is the Kanders bot, which insults and doesnt give a f*ck of how hard youtubers made content, and then they move on to insult content and doesnt get banned. And theres the bots with their pfp containing n*dity, where the main goal for the group of the bots is to attract people and then there are the "likes and sub beggars", where their only primary objective is to send messages like "guys i dont have subs" but instead they have subs that has 1 followed by 2 zeros. These bots could not be banned but instead they blame us humans that did it and youtube doesnt give a sh*t about us and just bans us without hesitation

UPDATE EDIT:

I have recently seeing irritating Christian comment bots who preach annoyingly without any consent to any other Jews, Muslims and Hindus which say "Jesus loves you" which is irritating. although I don't want to insult Christianity but these bots has too much out of control.

I need someone knowledgeable on what makes a title and thumbnail good and what makes a video more clickable. 2 videos uploaded within the same timeframe, same niche, but wildly different results. I need to know why.

Ever since the new views and engaged views change my views have drastically gone down. My views are not aligning with stayed to watch

Example I got 100 views says 80% stayed to watch almost 100% avd shouldn’t this mean I have 80 engaged views since 80% stayed to watch? They watched 17 out of 18 seconds.

One of my shorts has 58.2k views stayed to watch 48.6% avd is 438% and only 12.4k engaged views. How does this make sense?

If 48% stayed to watch and I got 58k views/reach shouldn’t I have at least 27k engaged views but it is saying I have only 12k views which is closer to 20% stayed to watch vs the 48% that actually watched.

Can someone please explain this to me? Is this happening to you as well?

Hello,

I am US expat living in my native country so I have dual citizenship. I used to have an account in google adsense when I lived in the US in the past but that account is now closed. Now I want to open a new account in Google adsense. So I understand I must enter my foreign address which is fine. My question is: When entering tax info do I enter my US tax info? In other words, do I sign up as a US citizen living abroad? In such case can I also use my bank account in the US or is it also easy to get paid to my foreign bank account equally so it doesn't matter? I ask about adsense because to earn money from youtube we must first setup adsense anyway right? I have website to make money form too so I will use adsense too anyway.

So as we all know, one of the last havens in society for a miserable person to lash out is in the yt comment section.

Doesn’t matter what you upload some miserable asshole is going to pop up in your comments and leave a shitty comment. Not constructive criticism but rude constructive criticism.

Comments with criticism that’s still respectful, I will like, heart and respond to in kind.

But the blatantly rude bs, I just roll my eyes, hide user and move on. But sometimes I’m in the mood to clap back. I only restrain myself because I don’t want yt to punish me.

Is that a thing? Can I clap back and not be punished by yt? Should I just let it go and not give it any attention?

How do you approach the bs?

Hi all. I had a contract with a well known company for $1000 in exchange for a 2 min ad.

They sent me another $1000 even tho I already got paid the $1000?

I emailed them to ask if this was done on purpose or if it was a mistake. She said she'll get back to me but it's Been around a month. I resent another message but still no response. Usually she would reply within 3 days.

Do I just leave the money there? Or am I legally allowed to take it? (The contract said $1000 not $2000 but they sent me an extra 1k)

What's the best thing to do here? Thanks in advance

Edit: forgot to add that its in a Lunau Payment meaning I'd have to withdraw the money from the payment website into my bank account. So it's not in my bank account right now.

Easy Summary,

Niche Horror Narrator, Video in question (channel In my profile and is my latest upload)

Video Up 1 Day 17 Hours

Views 688

Impressions 7.2k

5.7% CTR Overall Stat

Likes 120

Retention 40.6% (19min 47sec)

Comments 156, (I'd say 60 are me replying)

Video Ranked 9 of 10 (performance is worse than my latest upload with less of everything above)

Video is now dead with impressions

Just asking for a bit of advice here. Usually, I post every 2 days, and I'm very consistent with this. My videos are normally dead in the water at this time (1.5 days after release).

I'm wondering because of the high engagement, high like/View ratio, should I wait another day to upload or just continue as planned?

Thanks Guys!

If you are looking or hiring a video editor, I can do it. I have been editing YouTube videos for 8yrs and i have samples of my work like celebrity niches or i can copy a video you want. DM me you ever need an Editor

I post regular, original content video of rodeo which is stolen pretty regularly. I take these down without much mercy, as they aren’t sharing — they’re lifting the video and reposting it without credit. Mostly as standalone videos.

Sometimes I get emails like the below (translated) and feel a bit bad about the strikes

I appreciate your help in removing the copyright complaint from a video I posted on Facebook and YouTube that appears to be your property. I apologize a thousand times and appreciate your help, since my financial situation depends on social media.

Do you guys simply strike and ignore?

Over the last two years I’ve taken my channel from a few hundred subscribers to being monetized and over 10k subscribers. I’m super happy about that, but in the last year the progress has been much slower and I could use some help. The channel is called Undiscovered Classics.

I post consistently every two weeks on Sunday with a new video, I share it across my other social media platforms, and I also post it in related interests groups on Facebook which could be anywhere between 10-20 depending on the video. My Instagram page has over 15k followers and Facebook has 18k followers.

I’ve worked with a freelancer twice in the last year to improve my SEO for the channel and have implemented their recommendations. That saw a modest bump in a few hundred new subscribers initially but hasn’t really been taken off and I’m at a loss.

There are a lot of successful channels in the classic car genre, but mine is still pretty unique given the cars we focus on. I continue to believe that with our cars being so unique and uncommon that it could be a real draw compared to other channels where the same kind of cars are shown over and over again.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated and please let me know what metrics or info I can share to help. Thanks so much!

When channel membership perks are changed after they have been activated and members have joined the channel membership, what is the visibility of these changes from the perspective existing members?

• Are members notified about changes?
• Do members need to re-approve or re-confirm their membership?
• what does the notification or re-approval request look like for existing members?

Hello, I’m going to explain to you my current journey with YouTube automation, I started 2 years ago on my own when I was 17, I had zero income just working a 9-5. I signed up to a couple of bs YouTube automation courses back then & wasted my time learning from no real experts looking to help people. Now I’m 19 running 5 fully automated faceless YouTube channels making me passive income everyday.. taking time to actually learn YouTube automation & get better at basic editing & knowing what’s important to the YouTube Algorithm can be difficult so I’m now looking to help other aspiring people like I was back then struggling & trying different things to see what works.. I’m now confident in saying that a brand new channel that I work on with someone, can become monetised in less than 6 weeks (I did this less than 3 weeks ago to someone learning from me) msg me some questions you have I’m truly here to help, message me privately if you’re interested in me working with you on your YouTube automation business & I’ll network with you 1 on 1 (only if you’re serious)

I live in Europe so shipping to US would be very expensive for me if I had to hold onto stock and have to post it myself. Surely there's a middle man / dropship type situation?

I have a 2.7k sub yt channel with 8 videos in total (2 above 20k and 2 above 10k and my last video has 60k views. all of them are long form). How do i even get a sponsor? Do i reach out or will they eventually reach out to me? And lets say that i get a sponsor and my video does horribly, what would happen? Will i get payed or not?

Does anyone else facing low earnings after 1st april ? My graph is going down and views up 🥺

I’m a small time content creator. I do it for the fun of it but last year, when YouTube invited me to be monetized I figured… hey, it’d be nice to earn a little bit. So I filled up their forms online, put the proper tax treaties, etc. and yeah. Anyway, a few weeks ago, I got sent my first 1042-S and honestly… I’m a little stumped at what to do next lol I’ve been trying to research online but I haven’t been very successful

I’m not from the US. I’ve never lived in the US (I live in the Philippines, Filipino citizen, I have a Philippines tax number, etc). Not sure how US taxes work or anything like that goes. I thought that with Google sending me this document, this is proof that my taxes were already paid in the US (kinda like a receipt), however I hear horror stories about tax and so I’m not sure if I still need to file anything with the US IRS

What do people (particularly non-US folk) do? Any help would be appreciated. If it matters, I’m not going to contest anything on the form (the tax deductions look correct)

First, stop talking views. They do not matter as only viewer has control of them and is why youtube talks views… talk impressions.

Football, when picking WRs for fantasy football, once big names gone i used to go by targets pre internet…. How many times per game ball thrown to receivers. Catches dont come from thin air but from targets. Impressions are the targets, views come from impressions. Impressions youtubes responsibility and why they like to talk views.

Monthly slowings are used on all on rigged system. Some not so noticeable, but a couple the first 11 months will send you into 10/10 runs as your new uploads are competing with the old faster running channel. Month 12 slowing search and suggesteds programs switched out for rigged ones. The rigged suggesteds only controls your channel completely if slowed greatly, is why the monthlies…

All that want to truly know how youtube programmed their site and what they are doing with it in 3 vids at The Algorithm Expert.

Vid 1, the programming and why and what happens when slowed.

Vid 2, how to find rigging in your analytics and 100% proof of rigging first 10 mins of video

Vid 3, how to monitor uploads and know how that video will do as soon as you upload it… all say they want to know this supposed “algorithm”, there is 2 hours and u will be an expert at the system also.

That first 10 mins proves not even suggesteds is AI… all obeying programs, nothing more

I was just recently accepted in the Youtube Creator Community. Has anyone else joined this? It seems that I have a personal Youtube partner manager and the ability to contact her if I have any issues with my channel. What are the other benefits? Are there any downsides to being in this community? I don't hear many people talking about this so I decided to ask. Thanks

I have a gaming channel and recently have been gaining a ton of views. However my views are super inconsistent, dropping to 10/10 very easily if I choose a wrong prompt, and I feel like doing voiceover will give my channel more of a personality so people will start watching me for me. Im also worried that people wont be used to it and I just wont get views to begin with.

tldr text to speech is working fine but i feel like voiceover will do even better

what do i do? pls help

Seriously, shout out to the people playing the honest original game ! So much respect for you guys. I've scorched through youtube and highjacking vids onto thier own channels is literally uncountable. One popular vid, slight adjustment BOOM 4k watch hours 1000 subs. Even if the video isn't monitisable they still hit thier PP landmarks. All of you please watermark your content!