i just went through this on 2 channels and had them both demonetized from reused content. i deleted hundreds of videos and millions of views. Although i was mad for like 2 seconds, it's gonna make my content better. Use to do more original content and got i guess sort of lazy or comfortable doing what i saw other people winning at so i thought i would join the pack. So for me i'm glad it happened so i can refocus on better content. So if this just happened to you or before it happens start changing your content asap and stay as consistent as you was previously because your views will take a hit as well and it takes 30 days after the reapply date for a review.......they saw my new content and i was back monitized within a couple of days.....😁 hope this info helps somebody😁
@@vidIQ Hi, sorry to bother you but I need help. I have a channel that have achieved 1000 subscribers, 4000 public watch hours in last 12 months, no copyright strikes, and 2 step verification, so I basically got green ticks for everything that TH-cam ask me to do in order to monetize the channel and the "apply now" button has now appeared in the monetization page. However, when I click on the "apply now" button, it gives a short message saying "Gain access to use this feature. This feature in not available for this channel right now." That's all, nothing else, no instructions, no options or whatsoever. Could you possibly know the reason to this? I have ask TH-cam about this through the "send feedback" feature but have not got any reply and I couldn't think of anything else which brought me here. To add on, I also have my ID verified, the settings in my TH-cam Studio clearly states that advanced features are enabled and under it includes being able to monetize the channel. Thank you for your time and hope for your reply soon.
@@markm3691 Wow, hope he answers soon. I am interested in hearing what he thinks/says. Hope it is just that your waiting for a person to approve your channel. Good luck.
@@markm3691 vidiq isn’t TH-cam. You are basically asking a mall kiosk that sells hats if they can help you figure out why the mall won’t lease you a Ferrari.
The problem is that there are many channels who make 100% original content content who still get hit with the "duplication bug" because it seems to be entirely automated. I see it happen all the time on Twitter and it only gets fixed when a bunch of bigger channels retweet and raise a fuss to get a human to actually look at the channel.
Another thing that could help the issue is if TH-cam actually highlighted the offending videos and allowed you a dispute if you think they are wrong. Instead, they just tell you wrong and push you down the line for 30 days. It's frustrating and disrespectful.
Exactly never even tell you what video nor why u basically u just have to deal with it and to make matters worse u cant even talk to youtube to ask then why
@@love1orhate1boxingnewsupda61 you can chat with them under the Creator Support box. That said, yeah. They don't tell you which videos are the problem. It's a shame, really.
While this is technically accurate its extremely disrespectful from TH-cam. They literally grew as a platform from people uploading everything they could to TH-cam then once TH-cam was happy it started punishing creators for doing what continues to make TH-cam billions.
@@vidIQ I think creative original content did spawn organically with that other growth, to TH-cam's Credit they are trying to make things clear as you stated in the video by highly encouraging new original content. I am definitely inspired to try harder to make more original content.
This happened to my channel just a few days ago. I don't even use other creators content, rather I make everything from scratch and my whole channel somehow got demonetized for "reused content". After working hard on my channel for about 9 months and being monetized for about two weeks I suddenly got a mail from TH-cam out of nowhere telling me a lot of my videos are reused content from other creators and therefore the whole channel will be demonetized. No warnings or anything like that, just a raw cut and a "bye bye, try again later". Yes, I am a faceless channel, but still, that's not an excuse to suddenly with vague reasoning just demonetize it. I have exactly 0% other creators content. I only use some carefully chosen "meme sounds" for my videos, no music to avoid copyright claims and so on. I sometimes live stream my latest content in a "looped playlist" style of showcase to reach new audience because the algorithm seems to only favor me in that regard. Many big channels do this kind of "repetitive" streaming, and I have not seen that it's against the rules to do it. Still, if this was the reason; they can not send a mail vaguely explaining that I am demonetized because I more ore less stole content from some other person, which I of course did not do. This whole process messed up both my pacing of the uploads and the will to even continue. I mean, what if you are at your all time high view peak and expecting a nice revenue when TH-cam all of a sudden just feels like demonetizing you for no apparent reason. I am currently in an appealing process for this whole thing. To be honest, with this I have lost some respect for this platform. Feels like Mafia methods where they just can cut you short whenever they feel like it and it just seems to become more and more strict and less and less creator friendly with time. Just sad how they handle everything; a multi billion dollar company that can't even detail what exactly went wrong and what content was copied from what content. Edit: A quick update, my channel just got re-monetized. The appeal went through pretty quickly because I asked them to prioritize my review for the reason that I was at no fault regarding reused content from other creators. Seems like their system for demonetization needs to improve quite a bit. It is NOT okay to just cancel the monetization of a channel like this without thoroughly looking through it. The whole thing felt extremely demoralizing and I am still very disappointed.
Is your channel still monetized, because it seems that YT doesn't monetize gameplay videos unless there is extensive commentary on the video? Even using text or text to speech voice over is a no-no.
I have a question: adding a narration makes it okay to be on youtube, but voice-over (dubbing) is not possible, how's that work? I don't have a clue, basically, it's a very similar approach, but 3 years ago youtube made me wipe out a hundred videos, (about 50 mil views) because they were not mine, but I did work on them - translating the script, voice over, meticulous mixing process, sometimes I did re-do all the SFX, and did VFX like replacements for texts on some signs, etc... It's all gone, three years ago, but I'm still wondering. I loved making dubs. TH-cam did some experiments on the MrBeast channel to make video's audio languages multitrack available and I thought maybe it'd become a more official thing and someone like me will be able to do dubs again, directly with TH-cam or by contacting the creators, but that feature still seems like pretty raw and not available to wide numbers of people.
Here's a sample I found on what's allowed "A scene from a movie where you've re-written the dialogue and changed the voiceover" If I try to understand what it meant, I think your content were technically fine.
A few days ago my whole TH-cam channel got demonetized (without any prior warning). I suspect that 2 re-used videos might be the cause of this. I re-used 2 videos out of all 410 videos on my TH-cam channel, granting 5,5% of my total views on my TH-cam channel. Is this already enough to get your whole TH-cam channel demonitized? I'm going to appeal, and if the appeal gets denied, I will delete those 2 videos, hoping the problem will be solved. It's very annoying that TH-cam is not a transparent company and not sharing enough information with TH-cam Creators to fully understand what they did wrong.
Yes it is, unfortunately. I had a video uploaded where the guy who made it asked people to reupload it. I should have/could have done some commentary on it and instead just did a straight re-upload. That demonetized my entire channel.
Something that people should know, clipping up content from existing videos on your channel in order to create some shorts for it is okay. This was told to me to be okay from the official TH-cam creators channel when they were talking about gaming. The reason it's okay is that the Shorts content is technically a separate "platform".
Hello, i was demonetized for reused content in october after i had the best month in all my 8 years on youtube. I was forced to wait 90 days to apply for an appeal and i deleted over 300 videos that were edited scenes, cutscenes which took a lot of time to make. I just left my lego reviews, lego showcases with music, lore videos and heavily edited tribute videos with music. When i reapplied i was denied for reused content again. Now i refuse to delete anything else because all the rest of the things are absolutely my hard work and have been on youtube for years. Why all of sudden am I flagged for reused content for my own stuff? Most of the clips I use are around 2 or 3 seconds and rarely every 10 seconds tops and directly falls into fair use and has been since I started. I've been out a job since october and haven't been payed the biggest sum i've ever earned in a month in september 2023. The only things that i can think of that are left is for me to manualy go through over 500 videos and add a unique description to each one and delete the 1 minute videos i made to be both shorts and regular videos with slight differences. Any help would be appreciated man! :)
I have been seeing this on community posts from creators. Really helpful that you are making a video on this! So important to find ways to avoid this situation
I'm creating my own videos, working quite hard with a 9 months old baby girl, the growth is quite slow which sometimes breaks my heart but then I watch your videos and feel motivated all over again, so thank you
This is exactly how my YT channel got demonetized. During the 6 years I built up my YT channel with over 3,000 videos, I learned a few things here and there. The main thing was that most of my views came from links I posted on Twitter and in Facebook groups which allowed such posts. My video with most views was about a black bear attack at Liard Hot Springs in Canada, which got 225,000+ views. I did sometimes notice which of my content the YT algorithm seemed to favor or disfavor, but as you point out it is a complex equation and ever changing. But all of the knowledge I gained here on YT is now being used to build my Rumble channel since YT demonetized me and repeatedly refuses to re-monetize me.
Is reusing your own content considered illegal too? Let’s say you repost a shortened version of a really long video on your channel, does that count as well?
the thing is some of the Ai generated voices are actually way better than the voices of some creator, makes you wonder if youtube will treat it the same way
That's very easy to say and correct for current day content, but I'm from the old days of YT where it was great to see people uploading old & obscure TV shows that they just happened to video 30 or 40 years ago. It's a bit like using YT as an electronic Ark for things that would otherwise never be seen again, & you actually have to put effort in to transferring, cleaning up & uploading, so it's a shame that doesn't have a separate, allowable reused section!
Actually, the best thing you can do is to create a channel on Rumble and export your videos to it. You start out monetized there and there's no censorship like there is here on TH-cam
Where does reacting to short fall into this? is it an issue or not at all ? I created videos using Canva which are new and complete done by me and I also react to other pet videos using short remix feature. Is that a problem or not?
I'm with YoutTube on this one. While I don't want creators to overtax themselves, flooding the platform with regurgitated garbage hurts those who are creating meaningful content.
If they are making good original content shouldn't it stand up to the "garbage"? And infact lead the way? If you can't compete with "garbage" doesn't that say something about the original content?
@@toptensviewerschoice5204 That's just it. We're not talking about original videos. We're talking about taking the work of others, videos, pictures, text, etc. and compiling it in a blatant cash grab.
@Star There what about ones that have had a old video that was given permission to use and you never had any ishues with? Getting punnshed for having permission instead of TH-cam asking you to remove the content that was on your channel for all the years and being montized even with the video. I've been doing my best to transform my videos and removing the videos I can only imagine would be a ishue with TH-cam. But this was not my first time getting demonetization.... My first time was when TH-cam introduce the 1,000 subs and 4,000 hours.... now again for having permission on older videos. I understand TH-cam wants to keep it fair.... but instead of shooting first on every action couldn't they kinda do like the copyright thing and tell you. Hay we have a video we don't like.... Please remove it..... or your getting kicked out of ypp.... Getting kicked out while you're back is turned is so much more insulting. unless you're like Logan Paul going to a suicide forest to film a dead body to profit off of it.... Go ahead shoot away.... I'm surprised he still has a TH-cam channel 😳 Even though I deleted videos I'm still not feeling confident that I have actually done enough. I'm tyerd of trying to play TH-cam police against my own channel and finding out that I have deleted some videos that are not in vilation. And get this.... they don't even point out the videos that they're even having problems with.... That was also another one of my big issues. I'm hoping one of these years TH-cam will make it much more easier for smaller creators to understand how the platform really work....and I'm hoping the videos that I deleted was enough to get back into the TH-cam partner program
Greeting. My channel has been rejected for repetitive content. I deleted all the videos on the channel, made 10 brand new videos. I don't use that music, nor other people's clips. And they rejected me again for monetization. What should I do? How do I know that I won't be rejected next time because of repetitive content? What it means? Help me!
This should be an eye-opener to many YT content creators. I’ve come across many videos recently where ‘influencers’ are actively encouraging viewers to stitch some videos together to make ‘passive’ money. Original content and passion to grow is what we need to be successful on YT. Thanks vidiq for another great video.
I've also seen videos about how to get a million subscribers with zero effort. I think that's a dead strategy. To get more of something, incentivize it. To get less of something, take away the incentive. TH-cam is taking away the incentive to create copy and paste videos. I see it as a good thing.
HELLO Vidiq. One question: can you monetize a channel with copyrighted music and slowly progress into creating music documentaries and reviews (without copyright music), proceed to delete previous videos and apply for monetization after a while? or is a No no?
I completely agree with this, but what annoys me more than anything is creators who take videos from OTHER platforms and put them on another (while keeping that platform's logo on the video like TikTok)
I spent countless hours editing down a speech, editing the audio mixing and even creating CUSTOM music, with the addition of countless hours carefully crafting a custom video for the 'said' audio so that there was something spectacular to watch and after about a half million views and about $1,000 in revenue they said "meh re-used". I don't think the consideration is given to the EXTENT to which it is modified only that it comes from another source period. So be careful.
I’ve noticed a lot of channels that are using “news” or “talk show” type videos in the corner of their screen and then breaking it up with occasional comments. I find myself stopping the video and searching for the original content that isn’t interrupted. I end up with the full version and the actual creators of the content get the watch time. 👍
Actually not true the reused content is not always based on something that is our fault. I know what channel that makes substantial amount of Revenue and they took that away with reused content and it took him six weeks to get his channel back and finally they said oh yeah that was our mistake sorry about that but did he get compensated for the revenue he lost during those six weeks? Absolutely not! The automated Bots an AI are so broken on TH-cam! Anither example is I just got hit with this Friday I've been monetize for 14 years with no issues. I basically update people with new and upcoming attractions in Amusement industry and post point-of-use of rides and roller coasters that I have shot myself. They're being very vague and telling me I'm ree using other people's content which I'm not I have over 1,000 videos that I have shot and edited myself. Sometimes I have my GoPro mounted to my chest or Parks will sometimes allow me to Mount the camera to the rides. There is sometimes that parts will provide us with press kits or media kits with photos and videos or if we can't shoot our own POV cuz some parks or strict we have to rely on the POV that they provide to us to post where viewers. Sometimes I edit those in a way that's different but other times they don't want us editing those videos they want us to post it as is. Out of those videos I probably have like 20 that parks have provided for me to use. The rest of the videos have all been shot by me the problem is it is automated and for my content there could be other coaster channels out there shooting point-of-view videos which in the copyright section for my channel where you can view to see if anyone else has used your video I've had the system automatically populate that someone used my video on their Channel 100%. I look at their video and it's their own POV that they have shot. It's clearly not my video. I also got a Contin ID claim on a video saying that it match this other person's video it was all automated and I reached out to the person and said hey this is not your video you can clearly see that I shot this video myself it's just as the visuals look too similar. I'll switch you with the gaming channels where they're not commenting on the video I can kind of understand that that they need to add more value to it bumper my videos I do add value by adding my my intro, I have an outro, I add different pans and zooms, I add the stats and ride information Comet height requirements, add roller coaster stats as an animated banner on my videos. Also for these type of videos you don't want a commentary on and do voice over after or anyting because that's not with the videos about you trying to get people to see what the new and upcoming attraction is and if you're like oh look here comes the lift Hill or here's the drop all I'm going to go upside down, that otally ruins the contact you're trying to post. I even did my appeal video and it doesn't even look like anyone watch the video unless when someone internally reviews it on TH-cam does it not count towards a view because if not no one viewed my video because it still has the one view that I had done myself. Also two would I find ridiculous is once you get hit with that especially if it's their fault, they're not going to give you the revenue that you lost between all the length of time that your channel was not being monetized. Even worse if you get tonight with your appeal you have to wait 30 days reapply for the TH-cam Partner program. They say that can take up to 30 days to another additional month! And if your channel Cezanne monetized 450 days any Revenue that you earned during that month where you were or any money they're just going to blatantly steal from you! This is so ridiculous I'm so upset and I rely on this money for income to pay my bills and things like like that because at this point I haven't been able to travel as much to film this content just because the money I do get is going straight to my bills and everything like that. Will you should get another job or something and I actually do have other jobs that I do I'm constantly delivering food with food delivery service which is going downhill, I do wagon Rover for on-demand dog walks, boardings, and sittings. I deliver groceries and airport bags to people and things like that and I'm still barely making it by. I'm just so upset about this!
Hi! thanks for your sevice VidIQ! My channel was growing pretty steadily for the first 3 months but then it got kind of stuck, here I am all emotional, trying to understand what im doing wrong, and realizing with your content there are a ton of "technicalities" to it, but its just so much to handle for a single creator, besides creating amazing content, we have to be on top of the game with strategy, data search, creating different strategies across all other social media platforms and adapting content to suit each app. Not sure TH-cam is DIY-single-content-creator-friendly anymore.
This will be a very welcome change, far to often creators like myself spend endless hours, days and sometime weeks working on creating content. No matter how much someone adds or changes other peoples work it still remains someone else's content and another creator should never been able make videos/money from another persons work. Great video as always Rob and thanks for keeping us in the loop for updates such as this =)
I don't think you actually believe that. For instance, critiquing a movie, or reacting to them, for instance, Cinema Sins. Of course they should be able to monetize that even if it involves someone else's work too.
Straightly repurposing content is a problem but transformational content, parodies, satires, and educational content are among those that are protected by fair use. Content that means that the original audience for the piece isn't being taken away from the creator; the new media that has been made is often for another target entirely.
Hi, what about those faceless ASMR channels, or those that have similar repetitive content that is "relaxing or satisfying." Would those be alright to monetize? Many people like them but the content is very similar, with no face, commentaries or talking audio.
I'm glad youtube is doing something about this. I've seen a lot of stolen content surface on multiple channels and it's heartbreaking when the original creator doesn't get credit. This is VERY common in the youtube art niche.
Unfortunately this ruins an idea of mine. I am a programmer, and I have been spending time recently coding my own custom image and video effects. I thought I'd make a channel to show off some of these effects, where each video would show a comparison of some royalty free footage before and after one or more of my effects was applied. I wanted to wite code to auto-generate these videos using a randomized selection from my effects. Unfortunately, it looks like this would violate the rule about templated and programmatically generated content, even though I've used my own creative ideas in creating effects, and spent a significant amount time writing all the code for this.
Man we been dealing with this for over a year and we can't find out or determin what's effecting our channel. I've asked so many people and no one can figure it out and youtube will not help us . After next year we are not sure if we will continue ☹️
@@ToyQuest101 So strange as the majority of your content doesn't seem to use any other creator's videos anyway? I hope you've found other ways to monetize your videos that don't rely on ads, you have an awesome following!
@@Adam-dm2sh yea I know that's the whole argument I've had with them for over a year now. I don't care about the money but it effects the performance of the channel because it's not being pushed by youtube. They won't give you specifics unfortunately and it's literally a guessing game but I have tried everything and no one seems to be able to pick out what it is . I appreciate the kind words
I got demonetized this year for reused content, so I deleted most of the reversed Encanto videos in my channel. And after 3 appeal videos that got rejected, I finally got accepted again recently.
There is another issue, though, and that is there's an entire market out there of people who create content specifically for other people to use in their videos or sell content for other people to use. This only hurts creators who create content to sell or for others to use. Just because a certain video clip from Pixabay shows up in two different videos, the audio tracks, along with many other components of the video, are different. Different themes, different audio, intros, outros, etc. TH-cam considers that reused content when they really should be looking at the videos as a whole. Entire entertainment industries have been built on reused content. Services like Pluto and Reever and others like them pay to rerun content. So clearly there is a market for reused content. I can see TH-cam cracking down on people simply copying and pasting content. I don't agree with punishing people for using content that others are either providing or selling for those purposes. The copyright system is to protect creators that do not want their work stolen and reused. As far as reused content, that really should be left up to the viewers. If a channel is consistently gaining subscribers and views, then there really shouldn't be a problem. TH-cam is making money, and the content creator should be making money as well. Especially when they have permission to use the content within their videos.
This might be controversial but i don,t like the way these content policies work the stealing other people content makes sense but for stats video like no.
Thanks so much for sharing, you are a real game changer I’m having trouble with my TH-cam channel, I got demonetized because of reused content and applied for an appeal but it was rejected and I now have to wait till 2nd/oct/2022 for another chance to reapply. MY BURNING QUESTION IS… if I delete all my videos with copyright claims, will my revenue (which has not yet moved to my Adsense) still be accessed? I’m having a lot of fear that if I delete em, i might lose my watch time hours and my ad revenue. Please let me know if deleting these videos will give me a chance of being monetized again without losing by watch time hours and adRevenue. Thank you, looking forward to hear from you.
I heard my content is also "re-using", since I don't talk in my gta 5 videos and I basically make cinematics of an already existing game. Is that true?
@@BIGJACK45 But I have no choice but to use content from other people's videos for some of my videos: E.g : I can't go visit a tech Company, buy a self-driving car, etc...
See how TH-cam started with TH-cam shorts. Was like a bait for a fish to come and bite. Now that people have gotten into shorts mor and it seems to be making the rounds, they just pulled the thread and got people hanging on it with their own rules of repetitive and reuse contents.. At least, if they were able to point out the exact videos that they are basing on to demonetized a channel, that would go a long way to the TH-camr. It's like inserting a bunch of notes into an ATM and the ATM literally pushing all the money back to you that it's not accepting your notes, and that you gotta go figure it out yourself.
Amazes me how many YT videos I find such as tutorials that are done with AI voices, or if not, the people speaking it have no variation in their voices over 10 or 15 minutes as well as being super smooth and slick, which would be remarkable. And yet they seem to be quite popular. Some people perhaps don't want to put their own voice on the video because they feel the other voices sound better perhaps. Probably better than rough just got out of bed voice that always seems to be on my videos at times.
One of my videos has been altered, but TH-cam said that the changes were not sufficient. What exactly is the standard for change? Why couldn't TH-cam send a warning ⚠️ like a copyright warning? Another problem is that some of my videos are from my other channel, meaning they were not first uploaded on this channel. So I’m confusing. Now, I need to wait three months and reapply again.
Can you imagine building a channel for an entire year of your life, and then for the new year you see a new policy implemented. An entire year of content that cannot be monetized? Is that fair?
That sums my channel up I've made lots of videos where it's using existing work and addin' a bit of change to it which gets me a bunch of views but today, I wasn't accepted to the program for Re-used Content which I find both understandable but mostly discouragied me to continue TH-cam.
I'm in the utter confusion what do they consider to be reused. And with the fact that they don't tell you which exact videos they found violating this rule, you can pretty much remove all videos on your channel without knowing where the problem is. The only thing that comes to mind with the case i had is the use of stockpile copyright free images from the internet, even when they are heavily edited in photoshop, or maybe some common video editing effects. I'm 100% sure there was nothing else. I didn't use any footage or music from anywhere else! I made everything myself, and it for sure was my original work. And i had such problem 2 times already. This sounds like some absolute bias to me, and they can just punish any channel they don't like under such rule. Furthermore, in the last case they also added the "Inappropriate use of family entertainment characters" thing, which shocked me, because my channel (not the one i'm commenting from) absolutely never had anything like that! The way they describe it sounds like they were accusing me of making some animated violence or adult content, which isn't even what i was making at all! There wasn't even anything close to that. I didn't even make any "characters", and i have no idea how do they decided my content to be "family entertainment", all of this is way too vague and unclear. Which leads me to believe they are mostly using Ai or something that doesn't work properly. And yes, i could make an appeal, but only within 14 days, which i unfortunately easily missed since i wasn't very active. But that doesn't mean this becomes less absurd. Also by the way, 99% of the audience of my channel was mature adults.
Reaching 100 subs is a good midway-milestone for sure! I'm trying to get 10 first though. 😁 Good luck to all of you out there, keep consistent and improve your skills as you go. :) We can do it!
Is it ok if I use a bunch of different sporting clips and edit them together into a compilation? I am confused as to whether I am allowed to use different videos (such as NBA clips) and edit them together. Would this result in demonetization or not? I have been researching for a while but it is still unclear to me. Thanks
But what if it’s like a TH-cam poop? In most cases making a joke through a TH-cam poop rather than just recording yourself saying it could take more than 10 times as much time and editing
Bad way to start this video saying it’s the creators fault. My channel is all about analyzing comics and I got demonetized without any explanation. I narrate everything myself and make extra commentary about how the comics are more emotionally impactful than they may appear.
I really love & Respect your Genuineness Sir ! Putting so many efforts to make something my own is so hard. Many of the other TH-camrs called me as a foolish man due to that behavior. But, expressing own creative idea gives a huge satisfaction. I can’t express it using words. It’s awesome. So, thank you for motivating us to be unique & to balance the quantity & quality very wisely Sir. Appreciate your kindness Sir 🇱🇰
Very interesting content! You really have to watch from beginning to the END of this video. Valuable content and gets even more amazing at the end. Thank you for the information and the morning laughter!! lolol...
As a young person, owning a home should be one of your top priorities. You should not wait until you have a lot of money to begin working on a house. I understand that lands are expensive, but you can start building on someone else's land and later move the house to your own land.. ❤️✈️ 🇳🇬
How does a creator with mutism go about all since it seems it's only for people who can talk. I need to understand something about reuse, how does a creator with mutism share their voice in narration (impossible right), what about deformities in faceless creators, please advise on how this policy has taken care of such creators.
For the repitition content: in my channel I have uploaded single clips of hymns. so I thought it would be nice if I do a single compilation of clips which would include collection of up to 50 single clip of my existing videos I have already uploaded in my channel to form a single video as a compilation. As in in the compilation I didn't add any commentary or any new thing. It's just a back to back compilation of existing videos to one clip. Would TH-cam classify the compilation as repitition?
This kind of becomes a trend - TH-cam punishing all the creators because of some part of so called "creators". I see so many sports montages, amassing millions of views, with millions of subscribers. Yet, they are still around. But I now have to worry about my content getting on the wrong side of TH-cam because of some people. As a comment has mentioned here, TH-cam used to be grown by people posting whatever they wanted. And I understand the copyright part, but this "putting everyone in a bucket" and saying you all need to do this now seems harsh. What about actually taking away real views amassed based on actions that led to these policies being needed?
I completely agree with this whole entire video. Let me explain what apart of the problem is here. There are most certainly people in the world looking to "get rich quick" and when they see this videos from "money making" channels. They watch them and do exactly what the video says. Which is the complete opposite of what this video just said not to do. So I'm certain that's exactly what hundreds if not thousands have done. Only to be disappointed by the outcome. Of course the "money making" channels don't go over this part though. haha
hi, i edit cashcow videos for a living, (the videos like "what if" or the "top 10" using footage from storyblocks, music from epidemic sound, and voice from some ai generated website... it takes like 4-5 hours of editing to put all that together... and make engaging content... although i agree that 0 effort content shouldnt be monitised like reaction channels (although some reactions channels give their own perspective on the content that they are watching and others just keep watching putting a fake smile) i dont think that if someone has spent 5 hours editing a video for their audience, that they just "copied stuff from other sources"
I'm Starting to think that vidiq is directly connected to youtube marketing department, but they have to distance their selves to gain our trust. hehe Thank you Sir, this is helpful.
There is already a copyright claim system for stolen content. This is just the latest case of youtube's history of committing fraud. The entire community guideline prerequisite is fraud, claiming content isnt advertiser friendly while youtube itself simultaneously persists collecting ad revenues. Just a few years ago, small creators were able to disable ads altogether until they became monetized, now the new system allows youtube to profit off your content while you wait to apply for partnership then only to baselessly claim its against guidelines (so that they can profit indefinitely). I bet there are millions of small creators like myself that were previously youtube partners only for youtube to renege on their contract and force them into a new contract in order to establish arbitrary metrics. If youtube is running ads, you are owed compensation. I cannot imagine what it would be like to work a year, earn youtube tens of thousands of dollars, only for youtube to automatically claim your content is spam at the end.
In the rush to get monetised faster, we fall prey to this. I see many channels upload exactly the same video again and again...continously thousands of times!!(probably through some automated process...but why does TH-cam allow such things...very annoying). It's tough for the creator..it's very disappointing when reused content gets millions of views while good original content of small creators gets no visibility. I hope TH-cam helps small creators more. And a nice funny Outro, Rob. A question...Can I upload my own published video, again?
As a chlidren's animation channel I'm happy that this is happening because other animated series' like the ones you see on TV get their episodes reposted a lot and that's been my biggest fear since I started making videos two years ago when I was 8 years old on my old channel, waking up to seeing somebody reposting all my videos without permission and getting millions of views.
I'm glad they are trying to improve the TH-cam ecosystem. It means those who put effort into their work see the pay off as my videos aren't easy as it can take weeks to do some 3d projects, but it's definitely rewarding reading all the comments.
Can you do a video on Travel Vlogs, how to do it, what to focus on and similar things? Coz I have seen all of them seem to focus on food and people basically filming themselves eating! Is that the new reality now? Watch people eat?!? Sorry if my question is off topic!
Bro, they demonetized me in Dec 2020 for reused content (I created my channel in 2006!). I reapplied after a month and got monetized. Then in March 2022 they demonetized me again and I made an appeal video and got monetized the next day. Now, Dec 2022 they again demonetized me (and I have not posted ANY NEW videos on my channel) and I sent them the exact same video appeal and they rejected it!! HAHAHA This is a joke right now
Omg i think we’re the same on last. I stopped uploading vids due to my health. The last one was aug2021. I opened my channel dashboard today and found out im demonetized due to reused content??
Question on repurposed content. If I cut up one of my own "List of 10" videos into 10 shorts, does that become repetitious or reused content? Some shorts have improvements that I came up with after watching the original video. Or they are outtakes that did not make the original cut. But some of them are shortened versions of my longer videos. Thoughts?
To everybody reading this, I hope that whatever is bothering you or that you are continuously worried about improves. May your mind be free of gloomy thoughts, overthinking, and skepticism right now. May clarity triumph over ambiguity. May your life be filled with peace and tranquility.
Thank you for this information. I have all original content about African ceremonies and culture but have been told my content is reused. Is it because there isn't a personal face or voice in the videos?
@@vidIQ why are you like this? it seems like you just read the comments to get praised about your content instead of answering the questions and solving people's problems
I just recently got demonetized. All of my video clips are filmed by my crew. We focus on truck and tractor pulling. So obviously some class videos may have the same name as others, each video is different. But I got the reused content designation anyways. I put together videos of each class of trucks and tractors. Place the name of the driver and vehicle, and the distance pulled at the end. And each video is similarly laid out. So I don't know if that's what it picked up or what? I know that I spend a huge amount of time on the computer editing each video, a lot of times from two separate camera angles. I'm not sure what to do moving forward to get around this.
i just went through this on 2 channels and had them both demonetized from reused content. i deleted hundreds of videos and millions of views. Although i was mad for like 2 seconds, it's gonna make my content better. Use to do more original content and got i guess sort of lazy or comfortable doing what i saw other people winning at so i thought i would join the pack. So for me i'm glad it happened so i can refocus on better content. So if this just happened to you or before it happens start changing your content asap and stay as consistent as you was previously because your views will take a hit as well and it takes 30 days after the reapply date for a review.......they saw my new content and i was back monitized within a couple of days.....😁 hope this info helps somebody😁
👆Everyone needs to read this comment!👆
@@vidIQ Hi, sorry to bother you but I need help. I have a channel that have achieved 1000 subscribers, 4000 public watch hours in last 12 months, no copyright strikes, and 2 step verification, so I basically got green ticks for everything that TH-cam ask me to do in order to monetize the channel and the "apply now" button has now appeared in the monetization page. However, when I click on the "apply now" button, it gives a short message saying "Gain access to use this feature. This feature in not available for this channel right now." That's all, nothing else, no instructions, no options or whatsoever. Could you possibly know the reason to this? I have ask TH-cam about this through the "send feedback" feature but have not got any reply and I couldn't think of anything else which brought me here.
To add on, I also have my ID verified, the settings in my TH-cam Studio clearly states that advanced features are enabled and under it includes being able to monetize the channel. Thank you for your time and hope for your reply soon.
@@markm3691 Wow, hope he answers soon. I am interested in hearing what he thinks/says. Hope it is just that your waiting for a person to approve your channel. Good luck.
@@markm3691 vidiq isn’t TH-cam. You are basically asking a mall kiosk that sells hats if they can help you figure out why the mall won’t lease you a Ferrari.
Why whenever I share a video on my YT Channel it gets copyright... (Probably)?
The problem is that there are many channels who make 100% original content content who still get hit with the "duplication bug" because it seems to be entirely automated. I see it happen all the time on Twitter and it only gets fixed when a bunch of bigger channels retweet and raise a fuss to get a human to actually look at the channel.
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Happened to me.
i am one of them my other channel is based on gaming and still gets that reused content copyright
This just happened to me and im really concerned about this, hope it gets resolved
It’s the same with m :(
Another thing that could help the issue is if TH-cam actually highlighted the offending videos and allowed you a dispute if you think they are wrong.
Instead, they just tell you wrong and push you down the line for 30 days. It's frustrating and disrespectful.
Exactly never even tell you what video nor why u basically u just have to deal with it and to make matters worse u cant even talk to youtube to ask then why
@@love1orhate1boxingnewsupda61 you can chat with them under the Creator Support box.
That said, yeah. They don't tell you which videos are the problem. It's a shame, really.
While this is technically accurate its extremely disrespectful from TH-cam. They literally grew as a platform from people uploading everything they could to TH-cam then once TH-cam was happy it started punishing creators for doing what continues to make TH-cam billions.
Which is exactly NOT the point of this video
Now, all the edited copyrighted content is now affected, including YTPs.
What a cruel world...
An interesting take, which I don't necessarily disagree with.
@@vidIQ I think creative original content did spawn organically with that other growth, to TH-cam's Credit they are trying to make things clear as you stated in the video by highly encouraging new original content. I am definitely inspired to try harder to make more original content.
no. theft of work is the same as theft of money.
This happened to my channel just a few days ago. I don't even use other creators content, rather I make everything from scratch and my whole channel somehow got demonetized for "reused content".
After working hard on my channel for about 9 months and being monetized for about two weeks I suddenly got a mail from TH-cam out of nowhere telling me a lot of my videos are reused content from other creators and therefore the whole channel will be demonetized. No warnings or anything like that, just a raw cut and a "bye bye, try again later".
Yes, I am a faceless channel, but still, that's not an excuse to suddenly with vague reasoning just demonetize it. I have exactly 0% other creators content. I only use some carefully chosen "meme sounds" for my videos, no music to avoid copyright claims and so on.
I sometimes live stream my latest content in a "looped playlist" style of showcase to reach new audience because the algorithm seems to only favor me in that regard. Many big channels do this kind of "repetitive" streaming, and I have not seen that it's against the rules to do it. Still, if this was the reason; they can not send a mail vaguely explaining that I am demonetized because I more ore less stole content from some other person, which I of course did not do.
This whole process messed up both my pacing of the uploads and the will to even continue. I mean, what if you are at your all time high view peak and expecting a nice revenue when TH-cam all of a sudden just feels like demonetizing you for no apparent reason.
I am currently in an appealing process for this whole thing. To be honest, with this I have lost some respect for this platform. Feels like Mafia methods where they just can cut you short whenever they feel like it and it just seems to become more and more strict and less and less creator friendly with time.
Just sad how they handle everything; a multi billion dollar company that can't even detail what exactly went wrong and what content was copied from what content.
Edit: A quick update, my channel just got re-monetized. The appeal went through pretty quickly because I asked them to prioritize my review for the reason that I was at no fault regarding reused content from other creators. Seems like their system for demonetization needs to improve quite a bit. It is NOT okay to just cancel the monetization of a channel like this without thoroughly looking through it. The whole thing felt extremely demoralizing and I am still very disappointed.
Congrats i have been demonetized since last year, and its not helping atall.
Thanks for sharing this! Feels like this is the new approach we get when less and less humans are involved.
Is your channel still monetized, because it seems that YT doesn't monetize gameplay videos unless there is extensive commentary on the video? Even using text or text to speech voice over is a no-no.
where did you appeal their decision?
They can use ai but you cant. Haaaaa
I have a question: adding a narration makes it okay to be on youtube, but voice-over (dubbing) is not possible, how's that work? I don't have a clue, basically, it's a very similar approach, but 3 years ago youtube made me wipe out a hundred videos, (about 50 mil views) because they were not mine, but I did work on them - translating the script, voice over, meticulous mixing process, sometimes I did re-do all the SFX, and did VFX like replacements for texts on some signs, etc...
It's all gone, three years ago, but I'm still wondering. I loved making dubs. TH-cam did some experiments on the MrBeast channel to make video's audio languages multitrack available and I thought maybe it'd become a more official thing and someone like me will be able to do dubs again, directly with TH-cam or by contacting the creators, but that feature still seems like pretty raw and not available to wide numbers of people.
Here's a sample I found on what's allowed
"A scene from a movie where you've re-written the dialogue and changed the voiceover"
If I try to understand what it meant, I think your content were technically fine.
That's the power of money , it seems like TH-cam doesn't give you a clear answer unless you are rich
@@YourBoyfriend the sad thing is I was demonetized just because I used AI generated voice - text to speech
A few days ago my whole TH-cam channel got demonetized (without any prior warning). I suspect that 2 re-used videos might be the cause of this. I re-used 2 videos out of all 410 videos on my TH-cam channel, granting 5,5% of my total views on my TH-cam channel. Is this already enough to get your whole TH-cam channel demonitized? I'm going to appeal, and if the appeal gets denied, I will delete those 2 videos, hoping the problem will be solved. It's very annoying that TH-cam is not a transparent company and not sharing enough information with TH-cam Creators to fully understand what they did wrong.
Yes it is, unfortunately.
I had a video uploaded where the guy who made it asked people to reupload it. I should have/could have done some commentary on it and instead just did a straight re-upload. That demonetized my entire channel.
Something that people should know, clipping up content from existing videos on your channel in order to create some shorts for it is okay. This was told to me to be okay from the official TH-cam creators channel when they were talking about gaming. The reason it's okay is that the Shorts content is technically a separate "platform".
do you think you can get monetisation with clipped content from other platform on shorts?
wrong, don't duplicate content no matter what.
I disagree my shorts are All clipped and that’s what got me denied I think 😢
But who wants to make 20$ per million views?
@@jn2400 right?
Hello, i was demonetized for reused content in october after i had the best month in all my 8 years on youtube. I was forced to wait 90 days to apply for an appeal and i deleted over 300 videos that were edited scenes, cutscenes which took a lot of time to make. I just left my lego reviews, lego showcases with music, lore videos and heavily edited tribute videos with music. When i reapplied i was denied for reused content again. Now i refuse to delete anything else because all the rest of the things are absolutely my hard work and have been on youtube for years. Why all of sudden am I flagged for reused content for my own stuff? Most of the clips I use are around 2 or 3 seconds and rarely every 10 seconds tops and directly falls into fair use and has been since I started. I've been out a job since october and haven't been payed the biggest sum i've ever earned in a month in september 2023. The only things that i can think of that are left is for me to manualy go through over 500 videos and add a unique description to each one and delete the 1 minute videos i made to be both shorts and regular videos with slight differences. Any help would be appreciated man! :)
I have been seeing this on community posts from creators. Really helpful that you are making a video on this! So important to find ways to avoid this situation
True!
Glad it was helpful!
I'm creating my own videos, working quite hard with a 9 months old baby girl, the growth is quite slow which sometimes breaks my heart but then I watch your videos and feel motivated all over again, so thank you
You got this!
This is exactly how my YT channel got demonetized. During the 6 years I built up my YT channel with over 3,000 videos, I learned a few things here and there. The main thing was that most of my views came from links I posted on Twitter and in Facebook groups which allowed such posts. My video with most views was about a black bear attack at Liard Hot Springs in Canada, which got 225,000+ views. I did sometimes notice which of my content the YT algorithm seemed to favor or disfavor, but as you point out it is a complex equation and ever changing. But all of the knowledge I gained here on YT is now being used to build my Rumble channel since YT demonetized me and repeatedly refuses to re-monetize me.
Is reusing your own content considered illegal too?
Let’s say you repost a shortened version of a really long video on your channel, does that count as well?
the thing is some of the Ai generated voices are actually way better than the voices of some creator, makes you wonder if youtube will treat it the same way
I knew this day would come. The best and safest thing to do on TH-cam is just make your own original content.
That's very easy to say and correct for current day content, but I'm from the old days of YT where it was great to see people uploading old & obscure TV shows that they just happened to video 30 or 40 years ago. It's a bit like using YT as an electronic Ark for things that would otherwise never be seen again, & you actually have to put effort in to transferring, cleaning up & uploading, so it's a shame that doesn't have a separate, allowable reused section!
Actually, the best thing you can do is to create a channel on Rumble and export your videos to it. You start out monetized there and there's no censorship like there is here on TH-cam
"success doesn't teach you anything, only failure does.." loving it.
Great content
Where does reacting to short fall into this? is it an issue or not at all ? I created videos using Canva which are new and complete done by me and I also react to other pet videos using short remix feature. Is that a problem or not?
I'm with YoutTube on this one. While I don't want creators to overtax themselves, flooding the platform with regurgitated garbage hurts those who are creating meaningful content.
Agreed!
If they are making good original content shouldn't it stand up to the "garbage"? And infact lead the way? If you can't compete with "garbage" doesn't that say something about the original content?
@@toptensviewerschoice5204 That's just it. We're not talking about original videos. We're talking about taking the work of others, videos, pictures, text, etc. and compiling it in a blatant cash grab.
@Star There what about ones that have had a old video that was given permission to use and you never had any ishues with? Getting punnshed for having permission instead of TH-cam asking you to remove the content that was on your channel for all the years and being montized even with the video.
I've been doing my best to transform my videos and removing the videos I can only imagine would be a ishue with TH-cam. But this was not my first time getting demonetization.... My first time was when TH-cam introduce the 1,000 subs and 4,000 hours.... now again for having permission on older videos.
I understand TH-cam wants to keep it fair.... but instead of shooting first on every action couldn't they kinda do like the copyright thing and tell you.
Hay we have a video we don't like.... Please remove it..... or your getting kicked out of ypp.... Getting kicked out while you're back is turned is so much more insulting. unless you're like Logan Paul going to a suicide forest to film a dead body to profit off of it.... Go ahead shoot away.... I'm surprised he still has a TH-cam channel 😳
Even though I deleted videos I'm still not feeling confident that I have actually done enough.
I'm tyerd of trying to play TH-cam police against my own channel and finding out that I have deleted some videos that are not in vilation.
And get this.... they don't even point out the videos that they're even having problems with.... That was also another one of my big issues.
I'm hoping one of these years TH-cam will make it much more easier for smaller creators to understand how the platform really work....and I'm hoping the videos that I deleted was enough to get back into the TH-cam partner program
@Star There I have no idea I've talking to others plus I also run a community so I have no idea if I did run into you or not
Greeting. My channel has been rejected for repetitive content. I deleted all the videos on the channel, made 10 brand new videos. I don't use that music, nor other people's clips. And they rejected me again for monetization. What should I do? How do I know that I won't be rejected next time because of repetitive content? What it means? Help me!
This should be an eye-opener to many YT content creators. I’ve come across many videos recently where ‘influencers’ are actively encouraging viewers to stitch some videos together to make ‘passive’ money. Original content and passion to grow is what we need to be successful on YT. Thanks vidiq for another great video.
I've also seen videos about how to get a million subscribers with zero effort. I think that's a dead strategy.
To get more of something, incentivize it. To get less of something, take away the incentive.
TH-cam is taking away the incentive to create copy and paste videos. I see it as a good thing.
HELLO Vidiq. One question: can you monetize a channel with copyrighted music and slowly progress into creating music documentaries and reviews (without copyright music), proceed to delete previous videos and apply for monetization after a while? or is a No no?
I completely agree with this, but what annoys me more than anything is creators who take videos from OTHER platforms and put them on another (while keeping that platform's logo on the video like TikTok)
Indeed. TH-cam does know when this happens so, at least, the content shouldn't be monetized.
I spent countless hours editing down a speech, editing the audio mixing and even creating CUSTOM music, with the addition of countless hours carefully crafting a custom video for the 'said' audio so that there was something spectacular to watch and after about a half million views and about $1,000 in revenue they said "meh re-used". I don't think the consideration is given to the EXTENT to which it is modified only that it comes from another source period. So be careful.
I’ve noticed a lot of channels that are using “news” or “talk show” type videos in the corner of their screen and then breaking it up with occasional comments. I find myself stopping the video and searching for the original content that isn’t interrupted.
I end up with the full version and the actual creators of the content get the watch time. 👍
Now that's dedication!
I do this too! Very often the 'commentators are annoying and are ALWAYS interruptive!
Actually not true the reused content is not always based on something that is our fault.
I know what channel that makes substantial amount of Revenue and they took that away with reused content and it took him six weeks to get his channel back and finally they said oh yeah that was our mistake sorry about that but did he get compensated for the revenue he lost during those six weeks? Absolutely not!
The automated Bots an AI are so broken on TH-cam!
Anither example is I just got hit with this Friday I've been monetize for 14 years with no issues. I basically update people with new and upcoming attractions in Amusement industry and post point-of-use of rides and roller coasters that I have shot myself. They're being very vague and telling me I'm ree using other people's content which I'm not I have over 1,000 videos that I have shot and edited myself. Sometimes I have my GoPro mounted to my chest or Parks will sometimes allow me to Mount the camera to the rides.
There is sometimes that parts will provide us with press kits or media kits with photos and videos or if we can't shoot our own POV cuz some parks or strict we have to rely on the POV that they provide to us to post where viewers. Sometimes I edit those in a way that's different but other times they don't want us editing those videos they want us to post it as is. Out of those videos I probably have like 20 that parks have provided for me to use.
The rest of the videos have all been shot by me the problem is it is automated and for my content there could be other coaster channels out there shooting point-of-view videos which in the copyright section for my channel where you can view to see if anyone else has used your video I've had the system automatically populate that someone used my video on their Channel 100%. I look at their video and it's their own POV that they have shot. It's clearly not my video.
I also got a Contin ID claim on a video saying that it match this other person's video it was all automated and I reached out to the person and said hey this is not your video you can clearly see that I shot this video myself it's just as the visuals look too similar.
I'll switch you with the gaming channels where they're not commenting on the video I can kind of understand that that they need to add more value to it bumper my videos I do add value by adding my my intro, I have an outro, I add different pans and zooms, I add the stats and ride information Comet height requirements, add roller coaster stats as an animated banner on my videos. Also for these type of videos you don't want a commentary on and do voice over after or anyting because that's not with the videos about you trying to get people to see what the new and upcoming attraction is and if you're like oh look here comes the lift Hill or here's the drop all I'm going to go upside down, that otally ruins the contact you're trying to post.
I even did my appeal video and it doesn't even look like anyone watch the video unless when someone internally reviews it on TH-cam does it not count towards a view because if not no one viewed my video because it still has the one view that I had done myself.
Also two would I find ridiculous is once you get hit with that especially if it's their fault, they're not going to give you the revenue that you lost between all the length of time that your channel was not being monetized. Even worse if you get tonight with your appeal you have to wait 30 days reapply for the TH-cam Partner program. They say that can take up to 30 days to another additional month! And if your channel Cezanne monetized 450 days any Revenue that you earned during that month where you were or any money they're just going to blatantly steal from you!
This is so ridiculous I'm so upset and I rely on this money for income to pay my bills and things like like that because at this point I haven't been able to travel as much to film this content just because the money I do get is going straight to my bills and everything like that.
Will you should get another job or something and I actually do have other jobs that I do I'm constantly delivering food with food delivery service which is going downhill, I do wagon Rover for on-demand dog walks, boardings, and sittings.
I deliver groceries and airport bags to people and things like that and I'm still barely making it by.
I'm just so upset about this!
If you show your face and start a podcast would that be considered repetitive?
This happened to me, and I honestly don’t see anything reused in my comment it self. i really need help.
Hi! thanks for your sevice VidIQ! My channel was growing pretty steadily for the first 3 months but then it got kind of stuck, here I am all emotional, trying to understand what im doing wrong, and realizing with your content there are a ton of "technicalities" to it, but its just so much to handle for a single creator, besides creating amazing content, we have to be on top of the game with strategy, data search, creating different strategies across all other social media platforms and adapting content to suit each app.
Not sure TH-cam is DIY-single-content-creator-friendly anymore.
My Channel is now demonetized for reused content. But I record my visuals and do my own narrations. Any tips what I can do?
hey. did you get it figured out? if so, how did you do it?
Similar to a school teacher saying write it in your own words. Same applies to your videos, create content in your own distinct way.
Can you reuse portions of your own content?
This will be a very welcome change, far to often creators like myself spend endless hours, days and sometime weeks working on creating content. No matter how much someone adds or changes other peoples work it still remains someone else's content and another creator should never been able make videos/money from another persons work. Great video as always Rob and thanks for keeping us in the loop for updates such as this =)
I don't think you actually believe that. For instance, critiquing a movie, or reacting to them, for instance, Cinema Sins. Of course they should be able to monetize that even if it involves someone else's work too.
Straightly repurposing content is a problem but transformational content, parodies, satires, and educational content are among those that are protected by fair use. Content that means that the original audience for the piece isn't being taken away from the creator; the new media that has been made is often for another target entirely.
I create video edits and it says reused content but I make all of my videos myself, is it because I use scenes from Tv Shows?
Thanks for being Honest with us! You guys help me to continually improve! Keep up the good work!
No problem Childs Heritage - Early Childhood Counting, thanks for watching! Make sure you 👍 the video if you haven't already 😉
Hi, what about those faceless ASMR channels, or those that have similar repetitive content that is "relaxing or satisfying." Would those be alright to monetize? Many people like them but the content is very similar, with no face, commentaries or talking audio.
I'm glad youtube is doing something about this. I've seen a lot of stolen content surface on multiple channels and it's heartbreaking when the original creator doesn't get credit. This is VERY common in the youtube art niche.
Couldn't agree more!
I have created all videos by myself I didn't copy any content but I got reused and repetitive message from TH-cam. please help me to sort it out.
@@1ClickKannada Have you gotten monetized yet?
@@footballquizchannel6032 yes..really upset...i didnt copy single slide show from anybody..technically i failed understand my mistake yet!!
@@1ClickKannada Did you try appealing?
What about reaction videos, especially trailer for movies, tv shows, games, etc? 🤷
Any idea how to figure out which videos are meant by reused content?!
Vidiq is the best channel for anyone who wants to grow their channel🔥
I just got monetised this week😍 Thanks vidiq!!
Congratulations Pretty Kombe! What's your next target on the list?
@@vidIQ thank you! Next target is reaching 100k views on one or more videos this year.
Great
Unfortunately this ruins an idea of mine. I am a programmer, and I have been spending time recently coding my own custom image and video effects. I thought I'd make a channel to show off some of these effects, where each video would show a comparison of some royalty free footage before and after one or more of my effects was applied. I wanted to wite code to auto-generate these videos using a randomized selection from my effects. Unfortunately, it looks like this would violate the rule about templated and programmatically generated content, even though I've used my own creative ideas in creating effects, and spent a significant amount time writing all the code for this.
Let's go!!! VIDIQ MAX!
Man we been dealing with this for over a year and we can't find out or determin what's effecting our channel. I've asked so many people and no one can figure it out and youtube will not help us . After next year we are not sure if we will continue ☹️
Did you manage to get this sorted?
@@Adam-dm2sh not at all
@@ToyQuest101 So strange as the majority of your content doesn't seem to use any other creator's videos anyway? I hope you've found other ways to monetize your videos that don't rely on ads, you have an awesome following!
@@Adam-dm2sh yea I know that's the whole argument I've had with them for over a year now. I don't care about the money but it effects the performance of the channel because it's not being pushed by youtube. They won't give you specifics unfortunately and it's literally a guessing game but I have tried everything and no one seems to be able to pick out what it is . I appreciate the kind words
I got demonetized this year for reused content, so I deleted most of the reversed Encanto videos in my channel. And after 3 appeal videos that got rejected, I finally got accepted again recently.
Glad to hear you were able to resolve the problems.
Can you define a bit how yt saw it as reuse content in your case. what was the video about.? kindly share few things..
@@IslamicVideosForAll they were reversed Encanto songs.
I see.. thanks for reply..
There is another issue, though, and that is there's an entire market out there of people who create content specifically for other people to use in their videos or sell content for other people to use. This only hurts creators who create content to sell or for others to use. Just because a certain video clip from Pixabay shows up in two different videos, the audio tracks, along with many other components of the video, are different. Different themes, different audio, intros, outros, etc. TH-cam considers that reused content when they really should be looking at the videos as a whole. Entire entertainment industries have been built on reused content. Services like Pluto and Reever and others like them pay to rerun content. So clearly there is a market for reused content. I can see TH-cam cracking down on people simply copying and pasting content. I don't agree with punishing people for using content that others are either providing or selling for those purposes. The copyright system is to protect creators that do not want their work stolen and reused. As far as reused content, that really should be left up to the viewers. If a channel is consistently gaining subscribers and views, then there really shouldn't be a problem. TH-cam is making money, and the content creator should be making money as well. Especially when they have permission to use the content within their videos.
This might be controversial but i don,t like the way these content policies work the stealing other people content makes sense but for stats video like no.
Thanks so much for sharing, you are a real game changer
I’m having trouble with my TH-cam channel, I got demonetized because of reused content and applied for an appeal but it was rejected and I now have to wait till 2nd/oct/2022 for another chance to reapply.
MY BURNING QUESTION IS…
if I delete all my videos with copyright claims, will my revenue (which has not yet moved to my Adsense) still be accessed? I’m having a lot of fear that if I delete em, i might lose my watch time hours and my ad revenue. Please let me know if deleting these videos will give me a chance of being monetized again without losing by watch time hours and adRevenue.
Thank you, looking forward to hear from you.
I heard my content is also "re-using", since I don't talk in my gta 5 videos and I basically make cinematics of an already existing game. Is that true?
(I didn't watch your channel) . If it's not downloaded from another creator and compiled togheter you are good . 👍
@@neverain oh okay, let's hope so
unfortunately it’s will probably fall under reused content. did you already apply for the YPP?
@@SpaceCinemaYT yea and no issues so far... I have been monetized since 2018 or so
@@BIGJACK45 But I have no choice but to use content from other people's videos for some of my videos: E.g : I can't go visit a tech Company, buy a self-driving car, etc...
See how TH-cam started with TH-cam shorts. Was like a bait for a fish to come and bite. Now that people have gotten into shorts mor and it seems to be making the rounds, they just pulled the thread and got people hanging on it with their own rules of repetitive and reuse contents.. At least, if they were able to point out the exact videos that they are basing on to demonetized a channel, that would go a long way to the TH-camr. It's like inserting a bunch of notes into an ATM and the ATM literally pushing all the money back to you that it's not accepting your notes, and that you gotta go figure it out yourself.
Amazes me how many YT videos I find such as tutorials that are done with AI voices, or if not, the people speaking it have no variation in their voices over 10 or 15 minutes as well as being super smooth and slick, which would be remarkable. And yet they seem to be quite popular. Some people perhaps don't want to put their own voice on the video because they feel the other voices sound better perhaps. Probably better than rough just got out of bed voice that always seems to be on my videos at times.
I like using my voice in videos as it just makes the video feel like it were made by a real person
One of my videos has been altered, but TH-cam said that the changes were not sufficient. What exactly is the standard for change? Why couldn't TH-cam send a warning ⚠️ like a copyright warning? Another problem is that some of my videos are from my other channel, meaning they were not first uploaded on this channel. So I’m confusing. Now, I need to wait three months and reapply again.
Can you imagine building a channel for an entire year of your life, and then for the new year you see a new policy implemented. An entire year of content that cannot be monetized? Is that fair?
That sums my channel up
I've made lots of videos where it's using existing work and addin' a bit of change to it which gets me a bunch of views but today, I wasn't accepted to the program for Re-used Content which I find both understandable but mostly discouragied me to continue TH-cam.
yes of course its fair. Would you be ok if i came in your house and stole your computer? Its the same thing
SO. lofi girl (chilled cow) isnt monetized anymore?
Always entertaining (and informative), thanks Rob that was a great way to start out my day!
You're welcome FlyFishDan appreciate the support :)
I'm in the utter confusion what do they consider to be reused. And with the fact that they don't tell you which exact videos they found violating this rule, you can pretty much remove all videos on your channel without knowing where the problem is. The only thing that comes to mind with the case i had is the use of stockpile copyright free images from the internet, even when they are heavily edited in photoshop, or maybe some common video editing effects. I'm 100% sure there was nothing else. I didn't use any footage or music from anywhere else! I made everything myself, and it for sure was my original work. And i had such problem 2 times already. This sounds like some absolute bias to me, and they can just punish any channel they don't like under such rule. Furthermore, in the last case they also added the "Inappropriate use of family entertainment characters" thing, which shocked me, because my channel (not the one i'm commenting from) absolutely never had anything like that! The way they describe it sounds like they were accusing me of making some animated violence or adult content, which isn't even what i was making at all! There wasn't even anything close to that. I didn't even make any "characters", and i have no idea how do they decided my content to be "family entertainment", all of this is way too vague and unclear. Which leads me to believe they are mostly using Ai or something that doesn't work properly.
And yes, i could make an appeal, but only within 14 days, which i unfortunately easily missed since i wasn't very active. But that doesn't mean this becomes less absurd.
Also by the way, 99% of the audience of my channel was mature adults.
Basically, even though I’ve been on TH-cam for over 11 years. I tried to become popular after the first five years of struggling. And then I started making fan made videos in a very proactive way. Which means I always put the video links, song titles in the description of my videos. Plus the copyright disclaimer, and when I make fan made videos for TH-camrs (Kwebbelkop, Jelly, dodgerfilms, McJuggerNuggets), I always put © whoever it belongs to like © Kwebbelkop. Surprisingly I got permission approved from all of them, and then I added a star. For example, © Jelly*, © dodgefilms*.
Sadly in early 2018, I lost 914K+ views, right now trying to rebound. Surprisingly I got my channel monetized twice, like gets approved within hours. Even though I still make my own personal videos for sure (batting cage, bowling, mini golf, gaming), it’s all just for fun.
Being very proactive is like making a reference page in the essay
can we use a voiceover with stock videos as we read an informational/educational script? how about tts reading the script?
From experience I can say that creating from scratch is way more satisfying than "taking" work of others. 🙏
Great video. Very informative update. Will be advising my subs on this important insight soon. Thanks again guys
Clubhouse sessions on it? ;)
Reaching 100 subs is a good midway-milestone for sure! I'm trying to get 10 first though. 😁
Good luck to all of you out there, keep consistent and improve your skills as you go. :) We can do it!
Is it ok if I use a bunch of different sporting clips and edit them together into a compilation?
I am confused as to whether I am allowed to use different videos (such as NBA clips) and edit them together. Would this result in demonetization or not? I have been researching for a while but it is still unclear to me.
Thanks
But what if it’s like a TH-cam poop? In most cases making a joke through a TH-cam poop rather than just recording yourself saying it could take more than 10 times as much time and editing
Yeah I think that's allowed
what about music channels like mine where we get music from SoundCloud?
Question: Does this include 2-3 seconds memes between ones videos? I might have missed that🤔
it's fine for short length clips but make sure the depth of the content is done by you !
If it's 100 2-3 memes to create a montage... possibly. If it's just one meme in a 10 minute video, that would be fine.
Bad way to start this video saying it’s the creators fault. My channel is all about analyzing comics and I got demonetized without any explanation. I narrate everything myself and make extra commentary about how the comics are more emotionally impactful than they may appear.
Vinethics will help you
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I really love & Respect your Genuineness Sir !
Putting so many efforts to make something my own is so hard. Many of the other TH-camrs called me as a foolish man due to that behavior. But, expressing own creative idea gives a huge satisfaction. I can’t express it using words. It’s awesome.
So, thank you for motivating us to be unique & to balance the quantity & quality very wisely Sir. Appreciate your kindness Sir 🇱🇰
I appreciate that!
Agreed!
Thanks vidIQ
I was asking whether creating Video lyrics of other creators content fall under REUSED CONTENT?
Yes it happened with my cousin’s channel
Thanks it finally happened
@@Money_Maker254 no problem
Very interesting content! You really have to watch from beginning to the END of this video. Valuable content and gets even more amazing at the end. Thank you for the information and the morning laughter!! lolol...
Glad you enjoyed it!
Then how KSIClips got monetized if he uploads clips of KSI without any narration...
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In 100% agreement. Talking about myself, it takes me sometimes a month just writing the speech for the video. 📖🔖
How does a creator with mutism go about all since it seems it's only for people who can talk. I need to understand something about reuse, how does a creator with mutism share their voice in narration (impossible right), what about deformities in faceless creators, please advise on how this policy has taken care of such creators.
Baffling that channels such as SidemenReacts are monetised, but add little to no value to the original content.
Have you noticed they don't start reacting until more than 30 seconds into the video.
What about shorts??? Alot of shorts are very close in content
It's nobody's fault, it's TH-cam.
It's TH-cam bein' TH-cam
For the repitition content: in my channel I have uploaded single clips of hymns. so I thought it would be nice if I do a single compilation of clips which would include collection of up to 50 single clip of my existing videos I have already uploaded in my channel to form a single video as a compilation. As in in the compilation I didn't add any commentary or any new thing. It's just a back to back compilation of existing videos to one clip. Would TH-cam classify the compilation as repitition?
This kind of becomes a trend - TH-cam punishing all the creators because of some part of so called "creators". I see so many sports montages, amassing millions of views, with millions of subscribers. Yet, they are still around. But I now have to worry about my content getting on the wrong side of TH-cam because of some people.
As a comment has mentioned here, TH-cam used to be grown by people posting whatever they wanted. And I understand the copyright part, but this "putting everyone in a bucket" and saying you all need to do this now seems harsh. What about actually taking away real views amassed based on actions that led to these policies being needed?
That's why I switched from a 'reacting to videos' channel to a marble racing channel.
I completely agree with this whole entire video. Let me explain what apart of the problem is here. There are most certainly people in the world looking to "get rich quick" and when they see this videos from "money making" channels. They watch them and do exactly what the video says. Which is the complete opposite of what this video just said not to do. So I'm certain that's exactly what hundreds if not thousands have done. Only to be disappointed by the outcome. Of course the "money making" channels don't go over this part though. haha
This is why @vidiq is so valuable. This channel consistently encourages hard work and creativity.
hi,
i edit cashcow videos for a living, (the videos like "what if" or the "top 10" using footage from storyblocks, music from epidemic sound, and voice from some ai generated website...
it takes like 4-5 hours of editing to put all that together... and make engaging content...
although i agree that 0 effort content shouldnt be monitised like reaction channels
(although some reactions channels give their own perspective on the content that they are watching and others just keep watching putting a fake smile)
i dont think that if someone has spent 5 hours editing a video for their audience, that they just "copied stuff from other sources"
are you able to monetize the top 10 videos?
This information is super interesting and helpful. Once again VidIQ thank you 🙏
Glad you liked it!
How can I know which videos are reused content?
I'm Starting to think that vidiq is directly connected to youtube marketing department, but they have to distance their selves to gain our trust. hehe Thank you Sir, this is helpful.
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There is already a copyright claim system for stolen content. This is just the latest case of youtube's history of committing fraud. The entire community guideline prerequisite is fraud, claiming content isnt advertiser friendly while youtube itself simultaneously persists collecting ad revenues. Just a few years ago, small creators were able to disable ads altogether until they became monetized, now the new system allows youtube to profit off your content while you wait to apply for partnership then only to baselessly claim its against guidelines (so that they can profit indefinitely). I bet there are millions of small creators like myself that were previously youtube partners only for youtube to renege on their contract and force them into a new contract in order to establish arbitrary metrics. If youtube is running ads, you are owed compensation. I cannot imagine what it would be like to work a year, earn youtube tens of thousands of dollars, only for youtube to automatically claim your content is spam at the end.
In the rush to get monetised faster, we fall prey to this. I see many channels upload exactly the same video again and again...continously thousands of times!!(probably through some automated process...but why does TH-cam allow such things...very annoying). It's tough for the creator..it's very disappointing when reused content gets millions of views while good original content of small creators gets no visibility. I hope TH-cam helps small creators more. And a nice funny Outro, Rob.
A question...Can I upload my own published video, again?
As a chlidren's animation channel I'm happy that this is happening because other animated series' like the ones you see on TV get their episodes reposted a lot and that's been my biggest fear since I started making videos two years ago when I was 8 years old on my old channel, waking up to seeing somebody reposting all my videos without permission and getting millions of views.
My channel got demonatized for Refused and Repititious content.
Can't believe you uploaded this in this right time😄
I'm glad they are trying to improve the TH-cam ecosystem. It means those who put effort into their work see the pay off as my videos aren't easy as it can take weeks to do some 3d projects, but it's definitely rewarding reading all the comments.
Well said!
Can you do a video on Travel Vlogs, how to do it, what to focus on and similar things? Coz I have seen all of them seem to focus on food and people basically filming themselves eating! Is that the new reality now? Watch people eat?!? Sorry if my question is off topic!
Excellent advice. Create, and create original content. 👍👍
Aye!
i literally want to cry this is so unfair
Bro, they demonetized me in Dec 2020 for reused content (I created my channel in 2006!). I reapplied after a month and got monetized. Then in March 2022 they demonetized me again and I made an appeal video and got monetized the next day. Now, Dec 2022 they again demonetized me (and I have not posted ANY NEW videos on my channel) and I sent them the exact same video appeal and they rejected it!! HAHAHA This is a joke right now
You got monetize after your reused content, what did you do?
@@barakresmi Well, my content was not reused...
Omg i think we’re the same on last. I stopped uploading vids due to my health. The last one was aug2021. I opened my channel dashboard today and found out im demonetized due to reused content??
Question on repurposed content. If I cut up one of my own "List of 10" videos into 10 shorts, does that become repetitious or reused content?
Some shorts have improvements that I came up with after watching the original video. Or they are outtakes that did not make the original cut. But some of them are shortened versions of my longer videos. Thoughts?
To everybody reading this, I hope that whatever is bothering you or that you are continuously worried about improves. May your mind be free of gloomy thoughts, overthinking, and skepticism right now. May clarity triumph over ambiguity. May your life be filled with peace and tranquility.
Thank you for this information. I have all original content about African ceremonies and culture but have been told my content is reused. Is it because there isn't a personal face or voice in the videos?
Moral of the story: make original videos and become known on TH-cam as your very self!
Ding!
@@vidIQ why are you like this? it seems like you just read the comments to get praised about your content instead of answering the questions and solving people's problems
Wait, will my channel get monetized if I use stock footages and my own voice over?
I think it's a good thing that youtube is doing this, because copying content is easiest thing someone can do and needs 0 effort 😕
I just recently got demonetized. All of my video clips are filmed by my crew. We focus on truck and tractor pulling. So obviously some class videos may have the same name as others, each video is different. But I got the reused content designation anyways. I put together videos of each class of trucks and tractors. Place the name of the driver and vehicle, and the distance pulled at the end. And each video is similarly laid out. So I don't know if that's what it picked up or what? I know that I spend a huge amount of time on the computer editing each video, a lot of times from two separate camera angles. I'm not sure what to do moving forward to get around this.
Putting those AI voices near the end was hilarious!
;)
Yeah it's sad😢 I just hit 3m views on one of my videos and I applied for monetization but was turned down due to reused and repetitive content 😢😢