Hi A lot of people have always asked me over the last couple of months of have I been hit by the end apocalypse? Have my videos been D monetized like a ton of youtubers have and the answer is has always been no I haven't had a single video in my entire back catalogue hit by this D monetization thing and I just responded to someone on Twitter and then I checked two seconds they saying that and check two seconds later and tada. what do you know? my first D monetized video here. It is the dreaded yellow dollar sign here. not suitable for all advertisers and some channels have had practically every one of their videos Rd monetized in this way even before they're released.

For example, like Phil DeFranco who I've done a video I covering this before. you know practically every one of his videos he gets. You know, D monetize before they're even released. It's ridiculous.

Anyway, I have my first one and it just so happens to be not quite my usual content. It's about the minute physics and Bill Nye promoting rate on solar thing. So I have no idea what flagged this, Whether or not it was just the YouTube algorithm that you know there was like something in there. um, that did it or whether or not somebody flagged it.

Maybe there's a fan of minutephysics I Don't? Well, you know I don't know. Um, who did this or just one of my own viewers didn't like it and they flagged it I'm not actually sure how it works, so anyway, it's most likely the YouTube algorithm has deemed something in here to be of offense to people and it's not suitable for all over time. I mean it's just ridiculous I mean come on. a video just talking about.

you know, Minutephysics. having you know a paid sponsored ad spot. it's just crazy. Oh, you know.

Anyway, I don't get it any. Look, here's the keywords down here if you want to have a look like Minutephysics rate on Solar. But there's nothing like Equity crowdfunding like there's there's nothing offensive in my title or the keywords or anything like that. It's just nuts.

So I don't know that's high been flagged. It's my first ever D monetized video. Yeah, like well, night slightly incorrect. There's a Patreon live test I did and that was d monetized for some reason.

but I wouldn't like I wouldn't know like that wasn't even a release video, it was just a test. So either I don't know what happened there. but I have actually gone through and you can actually go up here and here we go. You can not monetized.

Okay, so you can look at videos which are not monetized. I do have some, but they're mostly live videos so I'm not sure what's going. Yeah, like the the Juno thing when I like I was doing some aborted tests with live hangouts and it didn't work properly. These were like demon like.

actually not monetize actually. I didn't even bother enabling monetization. The art of electronics that was a copyright claim. that was fair enough, but no basically issued car includes copyrighted content.

Yeah, that was fair enough. I had I was playing some music through the speaker's there which I was reviewing. but basically that's art, not monetize. sorry limited or no ads.

sorry wrong Search limited or no ads here you go. This is the new thing and Patreon live test. I've got another one. I've got another one that was my number one hundredth video triple digit retrospective.

so I have no idea why that one was flagged either. but ya know it's like out of my like twelve hundred videos I've got on my main channel like there's only three of them. so like it's it's certainly not a big deal. Um, so I'm gonna go through, request a review.

Here we go. So and I'm going to limit it. Monetize with ads limited or no ads due to content identified is not suitable for all advertisers. Ridiculous.

Unbelievable. Your video remains fully playable. legible, blah blah. Why did this happen? Avoid ads that don't align with their brand.

For example, they may choose not to advertise and conduct sexually suggestive. I'm Bill Nye Pretty sexy guy, right? He includes bad language I didn't swear once in the video or is considered controversial controversy having sponsored spots on YouTube videos. Anyway, if you think our automated system got yeah it I think it's only automated system. so I don't think anyone can actually flag the video and cause this I don't think so anyway.

so I think it must be the automated system that's done that Anyway, requests manual review. There you go. I'll hit that I confirm the video is suitable for all advertisers. You bet your ass it is suitable.

sorry I swore ass ass for you Americans There you go. So a request review. But the problem with this is that these videos are for content for content producers is they're typically flagged straightaway Even as I said, even before release they get flagged and then when you release it or it's flagged within like hours of its release. that's the peak time of when you actually get all of your views and things like that.

So if we go in here and have a look at let's say my 1k micro magic video our will have all the stats probably should have look now I should have looked at a longer one but it's an older one because the stats don't update very quickly. So let's go and have a look at the $7 component to know that's probably know that got shared around. Let's have a look at say the Trs-80 computer video and boom we'll see the see how the peak that watch the views. There you go there's a big peak and then it tails off.

That's how practically every YouTube video is. unless it goes viral and gets a second peak or you know, a third peak or whatever. And if your video is d monetized in that time period there, then you screwed. You've lost it.

So it takes me a day or two to appeal these videos. These are disputes. So yeah, I'll probably win and I'll probably it'll be Romano ties. But I will lose this video.

Still new and it's still been, you know, viewed by not only my channel, but also our minutephysics people, our viewers, and stuff like that. So yeah, I'm gonna miss out on the monetization from all that. Speaking of which, a lot of people have asked, yeah, have I been hit by the Ad Pocalypse either in the yellow D monetization or simply less ad revenue and the answer is no and let me go and show you my ad revenue I'll go straight in I'm not going to hide anything straight in my analytics I've done a video which I'll link it at the end showing you exactly how much I you earn on YouTube So it's not a secret and YouTube have cleared me to do this so it's not a problem. They're not going to shut me down for revealing So estimated ad revenue Here we go estimated out of revenue and this is for the last month.

We can go back a couple. When did the Ad Pocalypse start? I Don't know, let's just go back a while, but you can see like it like a lot of channels are dying because they've dropped like eighty ninety percent plus in ad revenue and I just haven't seen that. So it's been. it's been fine for me.

You know it's just the usual highs and lows. There's like is that like the last year or something that's got to be close to it and if you can I will do a role in seven-day average on there. So there you go and no problems whatsoever. So I have not been hit by that.

It's just my usual ups and downs around. December You always get a peak around there because that's when the advertising budgets of companies. You know end of end of calendar year advertising budgets come through. Well they want to clear out their advertising budget and stuff like that so everything's fine and damn you can see how much I get from YouTube are red I think it's about 25 percent or something.

So and if we compare metrics, if we compare that to views, let's overlay this. I haven't done this before. Let's overlay it and see. Yep, look.

So it's not like my monetization has dropped off-mic My views have stayed the same monetization stropped off so they correlate very well. So I have not been hit at all. Unfortunately, a lot of big youtubers who don't even do you know Italy Who cares if the contents contribution controversial. Big deal? You know it's that's what YouTube's always been.

It's crazy. Anyway, no I've not been hit and I just got my first video. so I thought I'd share with you anyway if you want to. If you know of any channels that have been completely destroyed by this, just link them in down below discuss anyway I hope you enjoyed it.

Catch you next time. Oh and I'll let you know what happens. I'm sure I'll oh oh we know just it'll in a day or two. follow me on.

Twitter I'll announce it I'm sure it'll be fine, but yeah, I lose that money until then. Oh well.