Demonetized for "Reused Content" **SOLVED**

I got demonitized with reused content. I worked my butt off for it. My competitors who make similar videos are monetized. Just doesn’t make sense…

Let me know if you can help me

I need help I’m getting reused content to 🥲🥲🥲

Just got my first viral video and two weeks later, Boom.....Demonetized.

I feel your pain! Although I'm a brand new channel, not yet monetized, I am feeling sooooo scared now! What if I work hard and get monetized then suddenly get demonetized through no fault of my own? I really miss the days when it was so easy to pick up the phone and talk to a real LIVE person about issues, instead of having to depend on bots....

You just needed screen shots of your programs you use to edit, your voice over and editing process frame by frame on your computer etc. And show your scripts etc. I did a video to appeal and it got accepted in 24 hours. Did you follow the format and mentioned your channel url in the first 30 secs. Maybe you didnt follow the format

Have same problem...😢

I just found out I can get denied access for monetization bc of “reused content” but now I find out they can just randomly take away your money bc they want more. That’s bullshit

Just woke up today Monday morning August 7th 2023, and checking my studio app, I can't find the monetization section. I can't see earnings. I refreshed the app and checked but nothing. Then something ringed on my mind to quickly check my email and behold, on checking, the email says I have been demonized. I launched studio to check why and it says reused content. That's on my other channel. Not this. I suspect it relates to some of my videos appearing on the two channels.
And yes, my main channel began having a spike in the last few weeks, more views, more revenue. Just when I am having a spike in views, growth and revenue, they demonized me 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️. But the channel I have which is normal, not too much of a spike but monetized, they didn't bother about that. They will monitor you when you start getting too much growth.

It also happened to me now. And i am looking for some ideas how to fix it and i found this video of yours and a lot more in comment section. I will try to fix it through appeal, i hope it will work. Goodluck to me. Thank you for sharing

It has happened to me and I have 227,000 subs.

I was demonetise right now too because of "reused content" I didn't know which of my video does but atleast they'll tell mr which one so I could fix it, If I actually made a mistake

Happened to me last july 10 i don't know if i will continue or what😮

i ended up giving up on my channel

same problem here, just got demonetised cause of reused content when my channel features original content only. i had a spike of views and was making decent money, they took it all away and the support chat line is totally useless

Thanks for the great, honest video.
This has happened to me. It's ridiculous! Or in your words B.S.
I can relate to a lot here.

I don't think a human being has watched my appeal video. The whole thing is a joke and a money making scheme.

You only get 5 mins for the appeal video, do they realise how long it takes to create content?
So many hours and effort wasted, I feel like creating a new channel and scrapping everything.

Good luck to you and wish you every success. 😊

Same Exact thing Happened to Me today, I hope I can get it back :(

So that means reused content is not allowed

happened to me 3 days ago.. but I have a "gaming channel".. so I saw it coming a mile away :)

Just happened to me a few hours ago! I've made the video and appealed, but have to wait up to 14 days. Really frustrating. None of my content is reused, it's all recorded, edited and uploaded by me. Each video is unique in it's own way, no two are the same. I've also never used other creators content in my videos either, with the exception of a few AUDIO clips in ONE of my videos. Other than that, none of my 2500+ videos contain ANY reused content.

This just happened to me, it sucks i make all my own content myself

Watch at 1.5x

sorry bro for your pain especially if that was your only income sorry , first of all start an new on , personally i only two or tree i was rejected for monetization for the first account wich i made too many mistake i used people content , but i still working on second one is clean i do every myself dont trust even buying music i go to studio make my own song and track i pay i shoot things on my camera myself from first experience just start over if you like your job

theyve done this to me for over a year went hard on shorts and went from 3k to 10kand they started messing up that too. I hate that we get no customer service

I subbed due to your PURE HONESTY !!!!!! I'm in the middle of it all right now and its CRAZY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes that’s completely ridiculous. Channels are not good to be monetized and yet are good enough for them to make money with ads on that supposed not good videos. Nonsense …

Dude I’m having similar issues !!

Reused content is content that you buy on stock cites like adobe stock, shutterstock...etc. That is exactly what you are doing. I don't get your explanations. You are describing what not to do. Create your own content and that's it. Buying videos is not the way

I feel you I have been denied 5 times and I still don't know what to do

i got 30 days to reapply so is it necessary to delete reused videos earlier i mean can i delete them later like after 28 days so that i get some more subscribers if i delete them later not earlier

they hit me 4 times in 4 years its the way they keep all the add money for our work. they are scamming thousands of people like this for years out here .

I'm pretty much on the same part, except I'm trying to get monetized in the first place. I specialise in Japanese videogame content, but get littered with claims of re-used content despite recording all of my footage myself

They rejected me and I appealed and got the same messages you did. I'm also using envato and uploaded all the licenses as required. My niche is meditation and relaxation. They can 'look at the backside of me' too (love that). I'm deleting all my videos now and will upload them with a commentary box of me talking for the first part in attempt to validate the 'creative process' for content creation. How do channels like Fail Army get past this with ONLY reused content of stupid people doing stupid things..?

I can't find that Twitter username. Can you share the link?

Just happened to me, can't wrap my head around it.
I've been making original content on my main channel for 10 + years.

"Your stuff isn't good enough to be on our platform, we realize we content ID all your videos, so you make pennies on the dollar, and now we're making sure you make zero dollars, but what we're going to do, is keep your content on our platform, your edits, we're going to monetize them and cease payment of the pitiful amount we were providing for the edit.

You're edits are worth zero, that's why we'll not let you monetize them. We'll profit off your poor edits, but you get nothing."

My case is much sketchier than others, but I don't think they realize, it is work, there is 5-10 hours PER DAY. Don't underplay making intros and thumbnails either. Those take work too.

It's only the person who has never edited content that will claim that no work was done.



I'm fine with content ID claiming my videos. Great...but if you cut me out of the monetization process, I'm not uploading content for you to profit from while I only ever incur debt.

How did you resolve your issue? It would seem to me that yours was a genuine mistake, whereas mine can be up for debate.

From my POV, if you aren't willing to pay me 1 to 5 hours of monetization before the content ID hits, you have no business allowing the content to stay up, and it should be a strike. As it is, the copyright holder actually allows content to be used on YT. So...IDK.

Been there. It's a painful process.

I understand your pain 1000% everything you said happened to me. I had a spike and huge growth in November. Wake up December 7th and I have refused content. Sent an appeal no luck, it's been 2 months now. Now I'm getting the lowest views since I started.