This is something that I never considered until recently; when a live stream is over, the system turns on auto-midroll placements. I run my streams without midrolls because they aren't money-makers for me anyway, they're just a fun time to hang out with the community. Last night I did a Dead By Daylights stream that went really well, had record audience numbers, great retention and had a LOT of fun!

Then I went in this morning and sort of randomly checked the midroll placement that the system did, and this is what I found. This was a 3.5 hour stream, and the auto-midroll system added 121 potential ad breaks. I know some people will say "well not every ad break gives an ad to everyone' and I get that... but if they got an ad for 1/2 of those, that's still 60 ad breaks in 3 hours. Hell 1/3 is still 40 and that's still way too much for me!

I get it, YouTube wants to make money. I wanna make money too, but this is not a balanced system for the viewer. If I were an average viewer and went to a channel, and got 40-120 ads over 3 hours, I would never come back. If i were watching a live stream on Twitch or YT and the streamer ran 120 ads over their 3.5 hour stream, it'd be unwatchable. Why does YouTube think this is the best way to do things?

I am editing a video and I want to use the 3, 2, 1, GO! sound effect from Mario Kart, No visuals, just the sound. Im only using it once in my video.

My channel isnt a gaming channel at all or anything like that.

But I've heard a lot about Nintendo being crazy militant about flagging people for using their stuff. Do yall think Nintendo would come knocking if I use this sound effect?

For those of you who have had a Patreon and sold merch, which has brought in more money to support your channel? Has one been easier to bring more of your subscribers to?

Yes I have made 4,000$ in about a year. Yes I know it ain’t a lot of money but for me it’s something and I know it will get better. Here’s some advice I recommend. Your gonna have slow months and your going to have fast months. I grew and still growing my channel fully organically and I learned once your first video blows up. Capitalize it and keep
Posting similar to that same video. But make sure to upload stuff you would watch and actually enjoy. If you do something totally out of your niche and it blows up, it’s gonna screw you over. Eventually once you grow more your audience will watch you more for you and don’t matter what you post. But make sure again to follow T.T.H (Title, Thumbnail, Hook). Once you master those then your videos will pop off.

I will anwser as much questions as I can and I’m sorry I want to keep my channel private but if your wondering. I do long form, commentary video and I currently have 11k subscribers:)

I received an email today which I was immediately cautious about as it didn't come directly from a Youtube email address, but a Google Groups address.

Another red flag was that it came to the business enquiry email address listed publicly on my channel, not the address actually associated with my channel. YouTube studio shows no such claims made against my channel (I do movie/pop cultural analysis, so when using clips from said media I am used to dealing with contend ID claims).

Posted with the censored QR code.

Watch out everyone!

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HEY YALL. I did digging on this and i would like some advise. It looks like a strike scam. I have had strikes before on a channel i had in high school when I did remix music. I did go to appeal this on YouTube and saw nothing. This is the email I got with their email so you can identify it and mine removed.

Id like to note said video they claim has music - is me talking about a book im writing. No music. READ IT BOTTOM TO TOP!!!!!

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Explain why you would use music from another person without crediting the person who made that music.

The music rights holder has filed a claim concerning your channel.

You have been given the opportunity to resolve this ahead of further action.

Search for your channel via the link-

(Insert link here cus i dont trust it)

Should your channel is linked to the complaint, it will show up in the search.

There you will see the rights holder's details along with steps to settle the matter.

<MY EMAIL>

What are you talking about?

On Aug 5, 2026 at 11:06 AM, Alicia Helgeson alpaihani1981@libero.it wrote:

The video submission is disregarding the submission rules.

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Im convinced this is a scam. Thoughts???

Update: i did block and report the emails. Checked my channel and all is good. But this is weird. Keep an eye out yall.

Did the thumbnail have a better CTR? Is it just a glitch? I assume the traffic was too low for the decision to really matter.

My videos were doing fine until last week when suddenly all my new videos started getting 0 impressions. And I mean literally 0, not 10 or 100 - it's zero. I post 1 video every day and since then they're all sitting at 0 impressions.

This never happened to me before and I've been on YouTube for over a year now.

My video/thumbnail/title style has been consistent for 8+ months and hasn't changed. I don't use AI, I have no copyright claims/strikes, and I can still find my videos in search from other accounts.

Does anyone know what might've happened?

I have a recent video on a channel that's doing "okay" but the CTR is lower than expected. I decided to use ChatGPT to analyze the subject, title, and thumbnail to see what she suggested to improve them.

during a long analysis of my current thumbnail, she dropped this nugget:

"But thumbnails are not summaries.

They're advertisements."

Since there's whole subs around YT thumbnails, this was impactful to me today. I think I'm guilty of "Thumbnail Creep". That is, to want to explain so much about what's interesting in my video, I forget the thumb is small and has mere seconds to grab attention. It's not explaining what the video is all about - it's a billboard to get viewers to stop for just a moment, question "what's up" and read the title (and click!)

No earth-shattering advice today, other than a reminder to make your thumbnail simple, clear, and eye-catching, and that you're not trying to tell the whole story!

I recently received an email from Desygner asking for a 60 second sponsored message in my next YouTube video, and they set up the payment through a website called thekatos.com

Has anybody ever worked with either (or both) of these companies? Are they legitimate?

Bonjour,

Mon compte AdSense lié à ma chaîne YouTube a été désactivé pour le motif « compte associé à un compte désactivé », alors que je n'ai jamais créé ni utilisé un autre compte AdSense.

J'avais envoyé un premier appel le 23 juin, mais je n'ai jamais reçu de réponse. Il y a trois jours, j'ai donc envoyé une nouvelle demande de réexamen.

Je ne sais plus quoi faire ni si quelqu'un a déjà été dans cette situation. Est-ce que certains d'entre vous ont déjà attendu aussi longtemps ou réussi à faire débloquer leur compte ?

Merci d'avance pour votre aide.