A few reasons you may get demonetized on youtube
 

Seems Youtube is hitting a lot of people.. lately so they don't have to pay them..

This is google's official list but they clearly have many others not advertised.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en



Here are a few content "quality" examples that can get you demonetized. Found this posted by a guy on youtube who had been demonetized and this was the reasons youtube gave.


Third-party videos stitched together with minimal-to-no changes
Third-party content compiled without a narrative
Content uploaded somewhere else first
Content uploaded many times by multiple users
Note: Copyright claims and reused content are different. If you upload a video that contains copyright-protected material, you could end up with a Content ID claim. These claims are issued by companies that own music, films, TV shows, video games or other copyright-protected material. Reused content means significant use of any pre-existing content that you did not create yourself.

If you want to create content that can be monetized, here are some best practices:

Add commentary or show your presence in your videos (voice or on screen)
Link back to your YouTube channel from your website
Provide more context about your work in your video and channel descriptions


The channel in question is posting police chase/body cam footage. Stuff that tends to be public domain so it's not copywrited in most cases. The problem is he doesn't do any sort of narration or add any sort of dialogue.

If he simply added some narration to the videos he probably wouldn't have been demonetized

There are a couple awesome "police leak" channels I watch with the body cam footage. Videos come out the day they are released publicly and they have millions of viewers thousands of views within minutes of releasing a video and YouTube recrntly demonetized both of them.

Business models like YouTube based on thievery are notoriously cheap. Sad

Ah so, Youtube finally punishes thieves....Great :thumbsup

The videos in question were public domain. They are fair use so not stolen.

But yes YouTube will not pay you of you steal someone's videos to re upload as your own.

I didn't break any rules; youtube demonetized everyone with less than 1000 subscribers and 4k hours watch time.

:2 cents:

Fuck Youtube...A true story: A few years ago some Hindu uploaded to Youtube one of our old action movies. The movie took place in Medieval Europe ,was shot of course in English and with US and UK actors. We sent to Youtube DMCA take down, and after they did, the Hindus came back and filed counter claiming it was a "Hindi action movie"..... The idiots at Youtube reinstated this Hindi Action movie....It took us about 6 months and about 7 K in legal to finally get rid of it.

....and. BTW are you saying that all the movies you refer to were made on or before 1925 ?