Thought I'd share what I have been dealing with for the last month or so and maybe help the Freedom family out in the process.
A month ago or so I noticed a severe drop in views and revenue from most of my vids on my channel with further inspection there were no red flags, de monitization or anything else that was easily seen to answer the question of why? With further inspection I noticed if I were to go to my video list on my channel and turn restricted viewing on over half of my video's would vanish? So with out my knowledge or any type of notification Youtube decided to label half my videos as restricted viewing, and no where other than the way I just said how, could I even tell this has happened to my videos.
So I first contacted Youtube and got a pretty standard response "new system, still learning changes have been made....so on". So brick wall, so I then contacted Freedom support hoping they could help on my behalf or at least give me some answers....and they did.
Youtube incorporated a new system that will restrict your video if certain meta tags or words are used in the tags,description or title. But they do NOT give any of those NO NO words to stay away from. Freedom support gave me a link to appeal up to five videos at a time to be reviewed to have this changed but It also states you will NOT be notified of the decision regardless of the outcome. Also viewers can have an effect on this. I your videos are flagged at anytime this can lock them down also.
What really sucks about this for me is that my channel is an all age's friendly channel. Nothing I say or do violates any Youtube terms of service or any new rules gauging content as safe.
Hope this will help out the Freedom family and maybe you should check yours........
A month ago or so I noticed a severe drop in views and revenue from most of my vids on my channel with further inspection there were no red flags, de monitization or anything else that was easily seen to answer the question of why? With further inspection I noticed if I were to go to my video list on my channel and turn restricted viewing on over half of my video's would vanish? So with out my knowledge or any type of notification Youtube decided to label half my videos as restricted viewing, and no where other than the way I just said how, could I even tell this has happened to my videos.
So I first contacted Youtube and got a pretty standard response "new system, still learning changes have been made....so on". So brick wall, so I then contacted Freedom support hoping they could help on my behalf or at least give me some answers....and they did.
Youtube incorporated a new system that will restrict your video if certain meta tags or words are used in the tags,description or title. But they do NOT give any of those NO NO words to stay away from. Freedom support gave me a link to appeal up to five videos at a time to be reviewed to have this changed but It also states you will NOT be notified of the decision regardless of the outcome. Also viewers can have an effect on this. I your videos are flagged at anytime this can lock them down also.
What really sucks about this for me is that my channel is an all age's friendly channel. Nothing I say or do violates any Youtube terms of service or any new rules gauging content as safe.
Hope this will help out the Freedom family and maybe you should check yours........