YouTube Hacks

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.

A YouTube Partner Program rejection for reused or inauthentic content means the reviewers looked at your channel as a whole and couldn't see enough of your own work in it. Usually, it's a pattern, like clips with thin commentary or videos built from one template. You can fix that pattern and reapply 30 days after a first rejection.

If your YouTube channel was hacked, start with the Google Account behind it. Every channel belongs to a Google Account, so YouTube can give the channel back only after you can sign in again and the hacker can’t. Then report the hack to YouTube through its hacked channel assistant or Creator Support. YouTube helps only with hacks from the last nine months, so don’t wait.

To analyze YouTube competitors, track what their best-performing videos do differently from yours. Subscriber count alone won't tell you that. A channel with 50,000 subscribers can post a video that pulls 10x its usual views. The subscriber number stays the same; something else changed.

You already have one YouTube channel. Adding a second, a tenth, or a twentieth comes down to who can touch what, and where the money lands. This guide covers the access rules, the shared systems, and the mistakes that actually break multi-channel setups, based on patterns across 3,000+ channels.

Finding child-appropriate content can be challenging, especially if, as a parent, you don’t watch a lot of YouTube and don’t know which channels your kid might enjoy. YouTube is a fantastic place for kids to learn and be entertained. It’s packed with all sorts of kid-specific channels of all genres! Today, we’ve collected the most popular ones, so you have a good starting point! Plus, you can find inspiration for your own kids' channels here!

You can’t upload videos to YouTube Kids directly. You upload them to your regular YouTube channel, and YouTube decides which ones go into the YouTube Kids app. Its automated filters check the title, the thumbnail, and the video itself, and people on the YouTube Kids team review samples of those decisions and the videos parents flag.

YouTube feature eligibility mostly comes down to verification. Verify your phone, and you get longer uploads, custom thumbnails, and live streaming from a computer. Build enough channel history or verify with an ID or a short video, and you get pinned comments, clickable links, and the right to apply for monetization. YouTube Studio shows where you stand on its Feature eligibility page.

A YouTube copyright strike comes off in one of three ways. The rights holder retracts it, your counter notification goes through, or it expires 90 days after it was issued, once you've finished Copyright School. Until then, your video stays down, and the strike counts toward the three that can end your channel.

Shorts vs. long-form comes down to what you need from YouTube right now. Shorts get a channel in front of people who have never heard of it. Long-form is where the watch hours and most of the ad money come from.