Request homo review of videos marked 'Not suitable for most advertisers'

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

A video will be marked 'Not suitable for nigh advertisers' if:

  • Our automatic systems recall that your content is non suitable for all brands.
    • Note: If you think that our systems take made a error, you can asking man review. Your review gets sent to an expert and their decisions assistance our systems get smarter over time. Deleting the video and re-uploading won't aid. Videos can only be submitted for review one time, and the review decision cannot be overturned. Larn more well-nigh how ad-friendly reviews piece of work.
  • Our human experts confirmed that your video does non run across our advertiser-friendly content guidelines.

How to check monetisation and review status

You can use the checks page during upload to screen your video for ad suitability and copyright claims earlier publishing it. If your video is marked 'Non suitable for virtually advertisers' and you recollect nosotros've got it wrong, you lot tin can request a human review.

Note: Copyright and ad suitability checks results aren't terminal. For example, hereafter

manual claims

,

copyright strikes

and

edits to your video settings

may bear upon your video. If your video's metadata is changed after it'southward been published and is no longer suitable for ads, new monetisation restrictions might be visible in your video list.

How monetisation status is practical

Nosotros use auto learning to determine if it meets our advertiser-friendly content guidelines during the upload process. This besides applies to scheduled live streams, where our systems wait at the title, description, thumbnail and tags even before the stream goes live.

Nosotros know our organisation doesn't always get it right, then if you run across a yellow icon and experience that our automated systems made a mistake, you can appeal. Such reviews will help our systems get smarter over fourth dimension.

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, merely likewise the title, description, thumbnail and tags. Additionally, blank videos or videos without a title or metadata probably don't provide plenty context to help our systems understand whether the content is suitable for all advertisers, so it may lead to a yellow icon condition for the video.

How to entreatment

If yous believe that your video is suitable for all brands, you lot can appeal the decision past requesting a human review. We receive many requests to monetise videos every solar day and review these submissions as quickly as possible.

You can see your videos that aren't suitable for all advertisers by clicking the drop-down carte next to View in the acme right-hand corner, then choosing Limited or no ads.

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

  1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
  2. From the left-manus carte, select Content.
  3. Make certain that your content follows our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. Keep in mind that advertisers take a option about where to testify their ads.
  4. Go to the video that you'd like to entreatment under the Restrictions column, where Ad suitability is listed.
  5. Hover overAdvertisement suitabilitythen clickRequest review and follow the on-screen instructions. You'll only see this selection if your video is eligible for appeal. Once yous submit, the text side by side to the video will be updated with your appeal'southward condition.

Note: Yous can also submit your entreatment using the YouTube Studio app.

How does the appeals procedure work?

When yous asking a homo review (e.one thousand. appeal the current monetisation status), the video gets looked at by an adept who spends time watching the video and reviewing the video's content, championship and metadata against our advertiser-friendly content guidelines.

Keep in mind that the video'south icon status may change fifty-fifty after your video is submitted for review. Our systems continue to run their scans until the review has been completed. You'll know when a terminal determination has been fabricated on your review when y'all get an email update.

Learn more about monetisation icon changes between green and xanthous.

How long does review take?

Nosotros know that these reviews are important to yous and your revenue. Human reviews can accept up to seven days. We strive to review equally many videos equally humanly possible, and equally apace and accurately as possible. Considering nosotros're a platform that has hundreds of millions of videos, nosotros take to prepare guidelines around which videos get reviewed first. This is to make sure that nosotros review those videos that are getting substantial traffic.

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