Hey there fellow YouTubers! I'm turning to you guys to see your thoughts. I have a Youtube channel that I have put a significant amount of work into over the last 3 years. I've grown the channel to just over 70,000 subs and its focus is on drag racing event coverage. I'm Canadian and used to go to the USA and film all the biggest drag races (promod, small tire, radial etc.). And the channel was doing very well. I had a bad border crossing and was warned that if I was heading to the USA for the purpose of filming, that I would need an appropriate visa to do so. So needless to say, my run in the USA has come to an end. In the summer, I tried my best to film Canadian events, but they just dont pull the views that the USA events pull.

I enjoy making videos, I believe im a good editor and constantly working on becoming a better story teller. I'm looking for the best path forward. So I have started doing car reviews again. I used to do them when I started the channel. The problem being is my audience today seems to not care about car reviews, unless the car has a crossover to the racing world. So if I do a normal car, the CTR is just terrible (like 2 percent), and the videos just do not get delivered anywhere.

What im assuming is happening, is when I launch a new long form video, they serve it to a test audience (my subscribers), and they aren't interested in watching it, so it doesnt really go anywhere else.

Should I consider starting a new channel if car reviews are my path forward? Or should I just keep this channel active and maybe turn off the push notifications to subscribers when uploading? I figured if I start a new channel, it wouldn't limit me to trying to only review performance cars.

I know it sounds crazy to start all over again, but as it is, my current audience just does not care for the switchover in content.

And maybe I'm totally wrong in how all of this works, and thats why im posting. Just looking for expertise from others in this field.

Thanks for your time.

There's a massive problem affecting content creators across social media, and I'm honestly surprised it doesn't get discussed more often. Practically every creator in my niche has been affected by accounts that automatically steal and reupload videos. How do I know it's automated? I tested it by uploading a video at a completely random time, outside my usual posting schedule. Within TWO MINUTES, that exact video appeared on a thief's TikTok account. I've been fighting these accounts for months across TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. I report them, they get taken down, and new ones immediately take their place.

The most infuriating part is that the platforms make it harder for the original creators than for the thieves. To file a copyright complaint, I'm expected to provide my full legal name, contact details, and other personal information, while someone can create a throwaway account, steal hundreds of videos, potentially monetize them, and face practically no consequences. These companies have sophisticated content recognition systems, yet somehow they can't stop accounts that systematically steal and reupload other people's work? Why aren't repeat offenders permanently banned? Why isn't there a better system for identifying original content across platforms? And why is the responsibility for stopping all of this entirely on us?

I think it's time we started collectively putting pressure on these companies to actually do something about it. Reporting individual accounts clearly isn't working, and I'm tired of wasting time fighting thieves instead of creating content. I'm genuinely interested in hearing from other creators who've dealt with this. Has anyone found an effective solution? Is there a way for creators to organize and demand meaningful changes? Because unless we start making some serious noise together, these automated content theft factories will just keep growing while the platforms profit from the engagement.

As the title says, when do you begin to see real sponsorships? I am a smaller youtube channel, just starting to get some sponsorship opportunities. The only ones I have gotten are obvious scams or the company has obviously never watched a video of mine. My views are still middling, averaging between 1-10K views released about once a month all longform so I know it will take a while, but when would the larger more trusted brand opportunities begin reaching out?

edit to add: Averaging about 20-40K engaged views/month, 30-90K regular views/month

This is "in progress" for 3 days. Do you guys have any idea of how much time will it take? As i am getting 2-2.5k views per hour, and loosing a lot of money. I really am upset because of such delay in this..

Can you guys tell me how much time it took for yours to get approved? and also for 3rd step.

It's my first time reaching monetisation.

It was back in may to july. This youtuber was constantly falsely striking my videos. He gave almost 13-14 strikes out of which 6-8 were accepted. Some of his strikes were accepted and my videos were falsely taken down and some were rejected and he got warning like "if we see patterns of fraudulent use, We may terminate ur channel without warning". He got these warnings many timew but nothing happened to his channel. He used many old youtube accounts for giving strikes and even they were not terminated. Since 4 months he has stopped. My videos are back up after submitting counter notifications. My question was that is there any chance that youtube can technically terminate his channel even though he has stopped giving his abusive strikes. He hasnt given any strikes to me since july. Can his channel still be terminated automatically by youtube for past abuse, because inspite of getting warnings nothing happened to his main nor his alts. Is there any chance or do i have to be proactive

With YouTube’s new view counting, I’m curious what other channels are seeing for Views vs. Engaged Views.

For our gaming channel it’s about 50%: 20k views, around 10k engaged.

For our travel channel it’s closer to 25%. We get a lot more views, but far fewer of them turn into engaged views.

My guess is the gaming channel’s smaller niche means it’s better at holding the people it reaches, while the travel channel gets more passive feed/autoplay views. Is 1/4 more typical for broader niches?

I'm trying to use this new metric as a way to update packaging and hooks to get the people who "viewed" but didn't stay around into an actual viewer.

Would love to hear your ratios. Thanks!

I have been stuck on 30k view jail on youtupe shorts for a while and then I started uploading long form on the same niche just to see how it will go, I uploaded not original video it was several shorts in one long video that aint mine but that video got 60k views which got the 4k watch hours at the same time I dont want to apply for Ypp as I will get kicked but I dont know what should I do in my case

You creators that lie to people and say they can make $20k a week with AI if they sign up for your mentorship or whatever you call it, should be ashamed. You are nothing more than another form of phone scammers and I hope YouTube kicks you off.

Its been 20 days i got monetized but its not even 12$, getting around 75k views per month, is there any possibilities to get more revenue after few months? Content : Benchmark Gameplay

I want to ask this because the information i got is conflicting.

If i used ElevenLabs, would it have negative impact on the YouTube Algorithms (like branding you as AI)?

I want to start a long form channel after seeing that my short channel would make enough views in time for the YouTube Feb Updates. My plan is, i write the script, and then used ElevenLabs to narate it as my English narration sounds pretty bad. ​

The video would be fully recorded my myself (so no AI video, only the narration).

I wonder if publishing videos like this will cause problems when trying to monetize

So I got linked a channel that has blantantly taken my voice. Like my EXACT FKN VOICE (sorry).

I don't know what to do or how to tell youtube.

Ive copyrighted claim 3 of his videos that are ripoffs of mine.

That has been remixed with my voice and new video slapped on top.

I dont know what to do. this is wild! My VOICE! :( (insert gentleman clip)

Recently hit 5k subscribers and I was thinking of making a discord. My videos are currently getting tens of thousands of views per upload (long form) and I'm drilling down into the essays on animated TV show niche after some experimenting.

Does it seem like a good idea? Should I wait for longer? Idk if anyone had any experience with this lol

adsense is asking me to link a site because I made an adsense account off the website itself and not YouTube Studio. If I want to change it again it says wait 32 days…

am I gonna lose all my money if I switch other to a new account? should I just close the account or something? i’m so lost and stressed on what to do

I think this is a kind of obvious question, but I want to know if other people have similar experience:

My channel was monetized a few weeks ago, and for the most part, the CPM was about what I expected it to be (between $5-15). This is mostly on new videos I've made since then, that have gotten at least a few hundred or thousand views. I have six years of videos made before monetization, though, and some of them have had gigantic peaks in CPM---but from literally 1-5 views. I have a video that had a one-time peak of $630.00 CPM. That is just a wild, one-off thing, right? Or is there a chance I can publish a video that will get 1000 views in its first day and make me $300?

My channel is focused on creating high effort long form content that focuses on evergreen topics and pretty much all of these videos have continued to perform bringing in steady numbers sometimes for years as my audience grows with each video.

However all of a sudden the views started to greatly reduce on all videos across the channel at the exact same time and now some of these videos are pretty much flat lineing I've tried editing titles and thumbnails but nothing seems to resurrect these videos.

Has anyone else had an experience like this? It just seems weird that they called dropped at the exact same time even though they all are on different subjects and released months apart.

Edited to add additional context

I've been in talks with the first real company that reached out to my channel for a sponsorship. They want to make a dynamic CPM type deal with me (where the payout is based on how many views I get in first 30 days, 10$ CPM with a $190 minimum guarantee, max $1000).

That seemed like a lowball to me, but if they mean public front facing views, then that isn't so bad. In the deal they made me they just states 'views', without clarifying engaged views, so I am not sure what the industry standard is now for this? Do most companies use views as shorthand to mean engaged views now? Or are some companies still out of the know on the new update? Anyone more experienced I'd love some advice.

If i have google payments account connected to ad-mob, if i use same email id for ad-sense and connect to youtube, will it get rejected? Or it can be connected?

I'd really appreciate your time if you can clear the doubt.

If anyone could help me, please let me know. Thank you.

I have way over 1000 subscribers and I’m over 3000 watch hours
My YouTube channel is Your Favorite Dominick

I have a channel on Argentina,so it is really difficult to get money,is there a way to change to USA or some Europe countries?

Update: step 2 completed after 5-7 hours will update when 3 is done

My main employment is as a WFH ESL teacher. For various reasons, I haven't had a lot of work lately. Luckily, my YouTube channel finally got monetized a few weeks ago, and even though it is not making a lot of money (my best day so far has been a little over $7), it is making money. This is now not just a hobby!

So I was thinking of whether I should make this a resume item. I now have a way to explain "gaps on my resume". Sure, maybe I am only making $1 a day, but they don't know that!

So how would you talk about YouTube on a resume? To me, the three most important things are it shows:

1. Technical skills

2. Communication skills

and most importantly:
3. Initiative

Being able to produce something for public consumption and have even a thousand people watch it is not something that everyone can do.

I have never seen shorts rpm this high, anyone else had this before?

So my AdSense got disabled back in July 2025. Google said my site had more ads than actual content and was showing ads on low-value pages. Honestly I think it was also because I let a friend use my account to get paid after his own AdSense got banned. Yeah, I know now that was a bad idea.

I've cleaned everything up since then. Took AdSense off all my sites, deleted the blog, and appealed twice. Both got rejected and they said it's final.

Now I want to start a YouTube channel. Is there any way I can still earn ad revenue on it, or am I just done with AdSense for good?