Monetization icon guide for YouTube Studio

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If you lot're in the YouTube Partner Program, you lot can turn on ads for videos -- if your video meets our advertiser-friendly content guidelines.

When you turn on ads, you'll see a monetization icon next to each video. The icons let you know if the video is monetizing. Whether you lot'll become revenue depends on several factors, including copyright claims, revenue sharing, and advertiser-friendliness. Use this guide to help you understand what each icon means.

For more info about uploading a video for monetization and best practices, bank check out this article.

Generally speaking, if an icon is dark-green, you tin can set alive. If you meet the checking icon, wait. If an icon is yellow, you tin can set live, make adjustments, or make an appeal.

  Checking

You'll see this icon in your video list when our systems are checking a video for ad suitability. No ads are shown while the check is running.

Our systems check for advertizing suitability during the upload process. This commonly take less than 20 minutes and at most 1 hour. You'll come across the monetization status shown when the check is complete. To make sure that yous maximize revenue potential, nosotros recommend you wait for checks to be complete before making your video public.

Copyright Takedowns & Content ID - Copyright on YouTube

On

Y'all turned on monetization, and because the video meets our advertiser-friendly content guidelines, it's eligible for near ads. Go on in heed that you may not get all the ad revenue for this video. Sometimes, your acquirement may be temporarily held because of a copyright dispute or invalid traffic.

What the green icon means for y'all:

  • If the status clarification says "on": You're earning full revenue on this video.
  • If the status description says "Exceptions": This video is only eligible for non-personalized ads because its audience is set as fabricated for kids.

 Sharing

You turned on monetization for a embrace video of a song, merely a music publisher claimed it. This music publisher has previously agreed to share revenue with creators in YPP who make music covers.

What the green icon ways for you lot:

  • If the status description says "Copyright claim. Revenue sharing": That ways you'll become some, just not all revenue for this video. Acquire more virtually acquirement sharing and monetizing eligible comprehend videos.

 Escrow

You turned on monetization, and acquirement is existence held separately during the Content ID dispute process, and once the dispute is resolved, we'll pay information technology out to the appropriate party.

What the greenish icon means for y'all:

  • If the condition clarification says "Copyright claim": That means the video was found to comprise copyrighted material and the copyright owner is reviewing your dispute or appeal. Learn more about monetization during Content ID disputes.

Limited

You turned on monetization for this video, simply because it doesn't meet all our advertiser-friendly content guidelines, brands may choose to opt out on content. This generally means you may earn less revenue on this content (because fewer ads are likely to appear) compared to content that'southward suitable for advertisers.

What the yellow icon means for you lot:

  • If the status description says "causing express or no ads. You can request a review": That ways our automatic systems assessed this video. You tin asking a review, which means a policy specialist volition look at the video over again, and if appropriate, tin change the video's monetization status.
  • If the condition description says "currently causing limited or no ads, but video is under review": That ways a policy specialist (a real person, not a machine) is reviewing this video. Our specialists can go on or modify the monetization status, and their conclusion is terminal.
  • If the status description says "currently causing limited or no ads. Confirmed by manual review": That means our policy specialists have looked at the video, and believe that information technology doesn't run across all of our advertiser-friendly content guidelines. The yellow icon condition is locked and cannot exist changed.

Ineligible

Yous turned on monetization, but in that location'south a copyright claim on the video. It cannot exist monetized.

What the red icon means for y'all:

  • If the status clarification says "copyright merits": That means a rightsholder has either claimed your video using our Content ID system or issued a consummate and valid copyright takedown asking for your video considering it uses their copyright-protected work without potency. As a result, you are no longer monetizing the video.

 Off

You chose not to turn on monetization for this video.

What the gray icon means for yous:

  • If the condition description says "copyright claim. Eligible for revenue sharing": That means someone else owns the copyright on content inside your video. Ads are running and acquirement is going to the copyright owner. The skilful news for you is that the copyright possessor is open to sharing revenue with yous. If you change the monetization status to "on," you'll get partial revenue for this video.

Why the icon changes from green to yellow

Sometimes, a video'due south monetization icon in Video Manager changes between green (monetizing) or and xanthous (limited or no ads) or . This is because our automated ads systems run multiple scans to effigy out whether a video meets our advertiser-friendly content guidelines.

A video's nomenclature may alter subsequently it'southward published equally our systems proceed to analyze more info from your video. We're continuously working to make this process faster and more stable.

What you can do well-nigh icon changes

Earlier you button your video live

We recommend waiting for checks to complete during upload before pushing your video live. Larn more about self-certification.

After your video has gone live

A video's classification may change in the start 24-48 hours of upload. It generally stabilizes afterward 48 hours. Bear in listen that it tin change again based on how viewers engage with your video. If you lot think that a yellow icon is a mistake, yous tin request human review. Videos that were previously reviewed and have gotten a concluding appeal decision should non modify. Larn more near how monetization reviews work, and when you should request one.

Run across a list of your yellow icon videos

To see a list of your videos that accept yellow icons, y'all can filter the Monetization status in your Content section of YouTube Studio. To request a copy of your video list, contact Creator Support.

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