Hey insiders this week. I wanted to give a little more information about
The recent updates to creator studio where you can see a little bit more information about
the status of your videos from an ads perspective as a reminder
the official Blog post
Announcing this change is linked below that is the authoritative source
I just kind of asked around and read read the blog post and kind of
Wanted to share some of my takeaways, so just for background
With a lot of the investments we've made improving our ad system
There was this state where a video could be eligible for some ad so it was not fully
demonetised
But it wasn't eligible for all acts
And so what we wanted to really try and do is give more clarity around that state in creator studio
So now when you go to video manager in creator studio. You're going to see these
Icons and there's going to be 1 of 3 which will represent its
Monetization status
So if it's green it means it's eligible for ads
its eligible for YouTube red Revenue sharing
if it's yellow
That means it has limited or no eligibility for ads
But it still has youtube red revenue sharing so that means
It may not meet all of our ad
guidelines and that's where if you get the yellow icon and if you read the ads guideline
linked below and
You're like hey, I'm sure this meets all the guidelines. I want to appeal this decision
Now you can do that from within the product so you'll be able to appeal from
Creator studio video manager
the third Stage is
the Strikethrough and
That means it's not eligible for any
As nor you to bread revenue-sharing
generally, it's going to be because there's a
copyright issue or a strike
The other thing is on if you get the yellow you read the ad guidelines you want to appeal
After you commence the appealing process you'll see the status in blue text, so you'll know
Where it is in the process and eventually you'll know what the outcome is
So that's the summary of the three icons
we kind of notice after the announcement or a lot of
questions that were bubbling up about this change and I try to summarize the most common ones and
Let me just take a shot at giving you
my informal take
so hey, why didn't why didn't this happen earlier is the common question
The way the sequence of sort of events is we really focus initially on
Fine-tuning the axis and then now that we're seeing many advertisers resuming their campaigns
We wanted to then introduce this increased information about the different states
Inside the product of pre your studio
so that that's sort of why it's you know didn't happen earlier, but
Hopefully this changes is going to be helpful. So the next question could could you have seen this before?
Well you could always go into youtube analytics and look at your revenue reports and see the amount of revenue per video and
Conclude that. Oh, you know certain videos are making a lot less in revenue than others
But I think with this change it's going to be a lot clearer. You're going to be a video manager
If you get the green icon you're eligible for ads if it's yellow you're not eligible for all ads, and that's where
You have the option to appeal if you really are confident that that it was
Misclassified um you know that appeals process is actually really helpful for us because it allows our
Systems kind of continuously improved, so if you appeal it and the appeal was granted then we can
further Fine-tune the ad system
next question
Did the status of certain videos change?
At the same time as having these icons available
so
No
this update is just
increasing the amount of information and visibility into the status of of your videos
It wasn't a major change to the actual classification
So the big change is you see the icons it is yellow
And you really think it meets our ad guidelines you can you can appeal within the product
next question
all my traffic
Happens in the first day or two if I publish I?
Get a bunch of traffic then I see the yellow icon
Then I appeal and then if I my field is approved
by the time that happens like a lot of my
Monetizable traffic is already consumed
So if that's a concern you can always start by publishing a new video as unlisted
the classifiers will run and will if there are any issues will identify most of them in the first day and
then
Assuming everything's fine. You can then flip it to public and then get all your traffic and
Have it as eligible for ads as possible
You know it doesn't guarantee that there won't be other issues that pop up in the future
But generally, I think that's a good best practice if you're concerned about this
Next question how many times can I appeal per video? Yeah? You can appeal once so what I would recommend is
if it has a yellow icon
Really go through the ad guidelines and look closely at your thumbnail your title your description
the tag
The video content itself you know what's being shown what's being said the whole nine yards
And then appeal because once that decision may you will not be able to peel
repeatedly
For it for any one video. So hopefully that helps if you have any other questions or feedback
Please leave a comment below and in the meantime keep it real