- YouTube is changing the Terms of Service
on December 10th of 2019, that's next month.
And if your content appeals to children,
you might be at risk. (record scratches)
And by at risk, I mean
a 42,530 U.S. dollar
fine risk per video.
Yeah, you heard that right.
42,530 U.S. dollars per video
if your content is considered appealing
to children and you don't mark your videos appropriately,
so in this video, I'm gonna show you how to do that.
Now before we open up our phones
and I show you how to go through
and select your videos and choose
the right setting for your videos,
let's talk just a little bit about
what this is and what it isn't.
This is all coming down from the FTC.
They are coming down onto YouTube
and then YouTube is coming down on us, the creators.
This is going to affect you wherever you live in the world,
it doesn't matter if you're in Germany,
it doesn't matter if you're in Pakistan.
Because this is affecting YouTube,
it's going to affect you and your channel is at risk
if your content is appealing to children.
And I keep doing this because it's one
of the vague terms that they mention
when they talk about whose content is appealing to children.
There's not really any black and white answer here,
but they do say this: "A child in the USA
"is a kid that's under the age of 13."
Now this might change depending on where
you are in the world, but if you're in the U.S.,
anyone under the age of 13 is considered a child.
And of course your statistics and analytics
only tell us from the age of 13 and up
who's watching your content and not under the age of 13.
So you might not even know if people under the age of 13
are watching your videos or not.
This gets a little bit tricky,
but what you do need to understand is that
if your content is created for children,
maybe you sing songs or write poems
or you do artwork for children,
the purpose is for children, it's intended for children,
then you are definitely at risk
and you're gonna have to mark your videos
that your content is for children
and I'm gonna show you how to do that in just a moment,
but if you're not making content for children,
you don't have to worry, you're gonna be just fine,
but you still need to mark all of your videos
as not intended for children,
so when we open up our phones,
I'm gonna show you how to do that in a second just as well.
So nobody panic, you're gonna get covered either way,
but there are some downsides here
for those of you who are creating content
specifically for children, and let's talk about those now.
Videos that are made specifically
for children are no longer going
to get personalized ads served on those videos.
Videos that are intended for children
can no longer have comments, info cards, or in-screens.
That's gonna hurt.
If your videos are intended for children,
viewers can no longer download
the videos or watch them later.
If your videos are intended for children,
viewers cannot add those videos to a playlist.
And if your entire channel is dedicated to children,
you are no longer gonna have access
to Stories or the Community tab,
and your viewers are no longer
going to get notifications.
That really sucks, yeah.
And this isn't a matter of if,
this is a matter of it's coming
starting on December 10th.
Now YouTube is covering their own backside here,
and I can't blame them for that,
but they're saying that they can't determine
if our content is intended for children or not.
That's our job as creators and I am
gonna show you how to do that in just a second,
but make no mistake about it,
if you mark your videos incorrectly,
you could be in for a world of trouble,
so as you're going through your entire content library,
and yeah, I know this has to be done
across your entire content library,
please mark these correctly so you don't have fines,
you don't have any problems,
you don't risk getting your channel removed,
you don't have to go into bankruptcy.
Who wants to get hit with this sort of fine?
It's ridiculous.
Look, I believe parents should be responsible
for parenting their children and not the government
and if that's how you feel, go down
and leave a comment below, let me know
if you think that parents should be responsible
for parenting their children and not the government.
I wanna hear from you on this.
Vent your frustrations down in my comment area.
I wanna hear from you,
I wanna hear what you're thinking about this,
please keep it family friendly,
do keep it PC, but vent away.
I'm gonna read every single question and comment
and I'm gonna reply to every single one of them,
but watch the language just in case
there are kids watching this video
and if that's the case, I'm gonna have
to mark this as a video that kids are watching,
but kids are probably not watching this video, so that.
Now grab your phone, I know I've promised long enough.
Thank you for watching up to this point.
This is all important information.
I'm gonna put links down below
to some videos that you definitely wanna watch.
They go into detail regarding this topic,
so grab your phone and it doesn't matter
if you're on Android or iOS,
the process is exactly the same.
We're gonna use the YT Studio app,
so go ahead and open up that and let me show you
how to mark your videos correctly.
Once you open up the YT Studio app,
tap on the little hamburger icon
on the top left-hand side and tap on Videos.
Once Videos open, you're unfortunately gonna have
to go through every single video,
tap on them individually, once that video loads up,
you're gonna look up to the top right-hand corner
where you're gonna see the little pencil icon.
You're gonna tap on that pencil icon,
then it's gonna load up another page.
It's gonna have your title and description,
but that's not where you're going to look.
You're gonna look on the far right
to the little Settings icon with the square around it.
This is your Advanced Settings options.
If you tap on that, now you're gonna see Category,
License, and Rights Ownership,
and then you're gonna see Audience
and this is where the change has to happen.
You're gonna see right here where it says:
Is this video made for kids?
Regardless of your location,
you're legally required to comply with
the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
or COPPA and/or other laws.
You're required to tell us
whether your videos are made for kids.
Now underneath that, you're gonna see
a little dropdown option right above Learn More.
If you tap on that, you're gonna have the option
to choose, "Yes, it's made for kids,"
or "No, it's not made for kids."
Go through every single video and tap on the one
that's relevant to your video.
Once you choose the right option
for your video, simply close it down,
then look on the top right-hand corner and tap on Save.
Yeah, you have to do that on every single video
while using the app.
Now there might be something on the desktop side
if you access a computer, you might be able
to do a Select All and it goes across all
of your videos, I'm not sure,
but because my channel is mobile specific,
I'm showing you how to do this
on the YT Studio app so you have
to change these videos one at a time.
But if you do have access to a desktop computer,
go check over there, you might be able
to do a one selection that covers all
of your video, or maybe TubeBuddy's gonna add
a feature where you can do it there.
I don't know, today I'm just focusing
on the YT Studio app for those of you
who do everything on your phone.
It's a lot of work, lot of tapping.
Look, I'm gonna keep it real with you.
I think this is insane
and I wish all of you the best of luck with this.
Go through, make sure you mark your videos correctly.
Make sure you stay on top of this.
Make sure you go subscribe to Creator Insiders
and all the YouTube channels,
make sure you follow everybody who's in the know
for this sort of thing because this could be a disaster
for some channels and you can bet
that somebody's going to be made an example of
and you do not want it,
I do not wanna be one of those channels,
so please stay on top of this
and I wish you all the best of luck.
Now normally I'm gonna close this out
with hey, watch this next video
or something like that, I'm not even doing that this time.
I just wanna urge you to go down,
watch the videos that explain this in detail,
and then go to your channel
and make sure you mark every single video appropriately.
So thank you for watching.
I do appreciate it and I'll see you in the next video.