Request human review of videos marked "Non suitable for most advertisers"

If the content of a video you uploaded is identified as not suitable for most advertisers, you'll see a yellow dollar sign, side by side to the video.

A video will be marked "Not suitable for nearly advertisers" if:

  • Our automatic systems call up your content is not suitable for all brands.
    • Annotation: If you think our systems made a mistake, and then you can asking human review. Your review gets sent to an adept and their decisions help our systems go smarter over time. Deleting the video and re-uploading won't help. Videos can only be submitted for review i fourth dimension and the review determination cannot be overturned. Learn more than about how advert-friendly reviews work.
  • Our human experts confirmed that your video does not meet our advertiser-friendly content guidelines.

How to check monetization & review status

You lot can use the checks page during upload to screen your video for advertizing suitability and copyright claims before publishing information technology. If your video is marked "Not suitable for most advertisers" and you think nosotros got it wrong, you lot can asking a human review.

Note: Copyright and ad suitability checks results aren't final. For instance, future

manual claims

,

copyright strikes

, and

edits to your video settings

may impact your video. If your video's metadata is changed after publishing and is no longer suitable for ads, new monetization restrictions might exist visible in your video listing.

How monetization condition is applied

We utilise machine learning to decide if information technology meets our advertiser-friendly content guidelines during the upload process. This also applies to scheduled alive streams, where our systems look at the championship, description, thumbnail, and tags even before the stream goes alive.

We know our arrangement doesn't always get it right, so if y'all see a yellow icon and feel our automatic systems made a error, you tin appeal. Such reviews will help our systems go smarter over time.

If you're non certain why your video has the yellow icon, review our advertiser-friendly content guidelines, not just against the content of the video, but also the title, description, thumbnail, and tags. Additionally, blank videos or videos without a championship or metadata likely don't provide enough context to aid our systems understand if the content is suitable for all advertisers, and so it may lead to a yellowish icon status for the video.

How to appeal

If you believe that your video is suitable for all brands, you can appeal the decision by requesting a man review. Nosotros receive many requests to monetize videos every day and review these submissions as chop-chop equally possible.

You can see your videos that aren't suitable for all advertisers by clicking the drop-down menu next to View in the top correct, then choosing Limited or no ads.

Follow the steps below to submit your appeal from your calculator:

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left bill of fare, select Content.
  3. Make sure that your content follows our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. Keep in listen that advertisers take a selection about where to show their ads.
  4. Get to the video you'd similar to appeal nether the Restrictions column, where Ad suitability is listed.
  5. Hover overAd suitabilityso clickRequest review and follow the on-screen instructions. You'll just see this option if your video is eligible for appeal. One time yous submit, the text side by side to the video will update with your appeal'southward status.

Note: You lot can besides submit your appeal using the YouTube Studio app.

How does the appeals process work?

When you request a human review (e.chiliad. appeal the current monetization status), the video gets looked at by an expert who spends fourth dimension watching the video and reviewing the video's content, title, and metadata against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines.

Proceed in listen that the video's icon status may change even after your video is submitted for review. Our systems go along to run their scans until the review has been completed. You'll know when a final decision has been made on your review when you get an email update.

Learn more virtually monetization icon changes between green and yellowish.

How long does review take?

We know these reviews are important to you and your acquirement. Man reviews can accept upward to 7 days. We strive to review as many videos as humanly possible, and as quickly and accurately as possible. Considering nosotros're a platform that has hundreds of millions of videos, we have to set up guidelines around which videos get reviewed outset. This is to make sure we review those videos that are getting substantial traffic.

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