- YouTube made six interesting updates to its policy
around what's considered advertiser friendly.
Pretty much that just means
what videos you can earn ad revenue from.
Some of these changes are more restrictive than before
and some are less restrictive than before.
Some of your previous and future videos
may be purged from monetization due to one of these changes,
while others may be eligible now.
I wanna start this video by saying
yes, this update is going to upset some of you,
but it's also going to help a lot of you
and many of you won't be affected at all.
Remember, you can upload videos to YouTube
as long as you comply with the community guidelines.
However, if they do not also follow
advertiser friendly guidelines,
you won't be able to monetize them.
If you're only in it for the fashion
and you don't care about making money,
you can ignore this video.
But if you want your videos to make a profit,
you need to pay attention to these six new updates.
Enabling dishonest behavior.
This is a new category aimed at content
that portrays encourages unethical or dishonest behavior.
YouTube specifically mentioned things
like pretending to be a retail store employee
and staying in stores after business hours.
We've all seen this kind of content on YouTube
and I imagine that this change is gonna affect
those channels making challenge-based content
and prank style videos.
Inappropriate language.
Hell, damn, shoot, dang.
Those are not considered profanity according to YouTube.
Use those words as much as you want, but only those words
because everything else, just use your imagination.
All that is being treated a bit more strictly now.
Profanity in the first seven seconds of your video
or in the title or thumbnail will instantly disqualify
your video for monetization and profanity used heavily
or consistently throughout a video will not be eligible
for monetization, no matter how mild or severe it is.
- How are you doing that with your mouth?
- Never (beeping) mind how I'm doing it.
- There's no longer any differentiation
between light, moderate, strong,
or extreme forms of profanity.
They're all equally unwelcome by advertisers.
Yeah, for some of you, I know that (beep) sucks.
(laughs) Got you!
Hey, dude. I didn't swear.
But if you do swear and you use a beep like that,
YouTube's okay with it as long as it's not something racial.
Dangerous or harmful acts.
Any videos that show dangerous acts
where minors are the participants
or victims cannot be monetized.
Unfortunately, we've seen the headlines
about kids getting injured or even dying
after participating in risky viral challenges and stunts.
That will not be tolerated on YouTube.
Violence.
Showing dead bodies without context,
gang violence directed at real people,
and implied moments of death cannot be monetized on YouTube.
But for gamers who have gory gameplay shown
only after the first eight seconds
have the option to monetize.
Okay, I don't get this because you can't use profanity
within the first seven seconds.
You can't show gory gameplay within the first eight seconds.
What's the deal?
Where are these numbers coming from?
If anybody knows, please leave them in the comments below
'cause honestly, I don't have a clue.
Drug related content.
Yeah, I don't have a clue about this one, either,
so I'm just gonna read you exactly what it says.
"Drug use and consumption in gaming content
may not receive ad revenue,
but drug dealings or mention of drugs
in gaming content may receive ad revenue."
Somebody unpacked that for me in the comments.
I don't quite get it.
Adult content.
"Thumbnails, titles, and videos containing adult links
or references to 18 plus content,
obscene language, adult material, real or animated,
and sexually gratifying scenes, such as animals mating
or implicit sexual acts, may not receive ad revenue."
And those are the updates.
Some creators have already been purged
from monetization because of this.
Check your content.
See if you're still in good standings.
If you have questions, let us know in the comments below
and watch this banger next because it teaches you
about the updates coming to YouTube thumbnails.
(gentle upbeat hip-hop music)