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Our partner’s channel covers true crime stories in their long-form videos. In May 2026, two weeks after joining the AIR network, the channel’s views started suddenly declining. Recommendations all but disappeared. By the time traffic came back three weeks later, the channel started to grow faster than before: views up 62%, subscribers up 117%, and revenue nearly doubled. Here’s how they did it.

Famous YouTubers get hacked too, and rarely because of a weak password. Linus Tech Tips lost three channels to a fake sponsorship file in 2023, and a hacker group got into the channels of Logan Paul and other Studio71 creators in 2017. Here are four channels that were hacked, how each one got back, and what the story means for your own channel.

To protect your YouTube channel from hackers, you need a Google Account that a stolen password can't open, a habit of checking brand emails before you open anything, and a plan for the moment you've already clicked. Most hacks that AIR Media-Tech's Safety team handles start with something the creator did, like giving away access or opening a file from a fake advertiser.

NOVA ERA is an album by The Maneken, a band and solo project of Eugene Filatov, a Ukrainian composer and arranger creating music for artists, advertising, and film, a sound producer for ONUKA, and a member of the European and Ukrainian Film Academies. On YouTube, the album has more than 1.2 million views. Five songs got music videos, and the whole album got a live version, released one song at a time as 14 live videos.