Thread by @AlZeidenfeld, This is an ABSOLUTELY ridiculous statement from @YouTubeLiaison on this matter that's [...]

This is an ABSOLUTELY ridiculous statement from @YouTubeLiaison on this matter that's effecting so many different and unconnected YT creators. I can show tons of data and graphs from YT analytics that will not back up any claims of "invalid traffic" on my channel. https://twitter.com/YouTubeLiaison/status/1318543786591617024

https://twitter.com/YouTubeLiaison/status/1318543786591617024

I'm going to make this a thread and if you're not interested, I fully understand so feel free to mute the conversation and it will no longer show up on your timeline.

Starting on September 20th, the monetization on my main YouTube channel dropped to roughly zero. I contacted support and was told they’d look into it. What I received back from them after roughly 15 days was a report that there was “invalid traffic”.

I started looking around twitter and found that there were a bunch of other content creators who had the same issue happening on their channels that started around the same time as my issue and they were sent the same form email as a response as I got from LeRoy.

So when the monetization was turned back on Oct 1st, there was a significant drop on my channel from what had been the norm in terms of RPM and CPM (how YT calculates how much money you get for every 1000 views). This was consistent for basically every creator w/ this issue.

My channel obviously centers around NFL content and therefore traffic spikes for me in the week preceding Week 1 of NFL and continues through the playoffs. This is completely normal for a seasonal channel like mine.

What's NOT normal is to see your channel's RPM/CPM drop from very good to zero because of alleged but unproven claims of "invalid activity". Attached are three screenshots of my channel from Sept 1-Oct19th in '18, '19 & '20. The 2020 one shows the dead spot and "rebound"

The "rebound period has settled into a spot that's WELL below anything my channel has ever earned in terms of RPM/CPM which is a bit shocking to me as every other creator I know in DFS has not seen anything similar on their channels. This was the response I got from support.

I dug further into why the rebound was producing less revenue and it seems the Mid-roll ads I'm placing on my videos on upload aren't being shown to the viewers. This isn't am mistake I'm making, it's YouTube just not placing the ads. Here is 8/1-10/17 from this & last year.

All the other data is normal. As you can see in the pictures, the ad impressions, views, view hours, CTR, and everything are consistent year over year, but for whatever reason, YouTube has decided to not put ads in my videos even though everything on channel is completely normal.

This has now been going on for 30 days and I'm entirely frustrated. The lack of revenue is annoying, but the constant gaslighting from YT Partner Support across a 20 email thread has tilted me to no end. Every time I provide data from my analytics and YT channel history (cont)

The return volley is, "Our internal team has done it's diligence" but every time they refuse to report their findings to me aside from saying "invalid activity".

There is no invalid activity on my channel. There are no view bots, I'm not clicking ads to increase revenue at all.

The facts are, I run a successful and growing YT channel that sees a massive increase in viewership during NFL season and their reporting system has improperly flagged my account for some reason & crushed it's opportunity to earn for I don't know how long because they won't say.

If there's anyone who can get me in contact with an actual human being who can look at these things and not just copy paste a form letter in response without any real answers it would be GREATLY appreciated.

Here are two more pictures to make my case that YouTube isn't showing ads on my main channel. Both videos (Recap and First Look) post at the same time on Mon. First Look is on the main channel, Recap is on the second channel. Look at the Ad Impressions to Views ratio.

Aside from the overwhelming evidence that points to YT shutting off the ads on my channel since 9/20 the claim of "invalid traffic" would show up in analytics, right?

1.7% of views are from "direct or unknown" which I would bet is pretty consistent with other people's channels.

Me: Why is YouTube not showing ads on my videos since October 1?

YT Support: "The ad impressions on your channel are working properly"

Me: Here's Oct 2019 vs Oct 2020...

I'm keeping this thread active with as much data, graphs, numbers as I can show because no content creators should have to struggle through this sort of thing with no answers for over a month. I think someone is starting to take this seriously, but until there's a resolution...

Now that I have the data from pretty much all of October that I can compare and contrast to last year, same month here are the results. all stats are in line YoY except...

600,000 LESS AD IMPRESSIONS.

The problem is simple. YouTube isn't showing my midroll ads anymore. Why?

There's no way that this can be normal and/or acceptable. One pic is last Oct, the next is Oct2020. Views and watch hours are both up, all metrics normal and now that YouTube is going back through the month, they've removed basically ALL the monetization for Oct 2020. How & why?

Another view of Oct19 vs Oct20, this time through the revenue tab. CPM dropped massively and RPM (the money the creator actually makes per 1000 views) fell completely off the table.

There have been no answers, no reasoning, no proof from YouTube why this is happening.

I can't believe that I may have to punt a channel I've spent the last 3.5 NFL seasons building to close to 40k subscribers and start over from scratch because YouTube broke the channel for some unknown reason.

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