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The Think Media Podcast

487: YouTube Is Demonetizing Channels (What You Need to Know)

The Think Media Podcast

Think Media

Marketing, Think Media Podcast, Think Media, Business, Youtube Secrets, Video Influencers, Entrepreneurship, Sean Cannell

4.9862 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Learn why YouTube is demonetizing channels at scale ⭐️Unlock the power of YouTube to generate leads & income for your business➡️ https://ThinkMediaMastermind.com This video is NOT sponsored. Some product links are affiliate links which means if you buy something we'll receive a small commission. 📒 Show Notes and Resources 📒 ⭐️Unlock the power of YouTube to generate leads & income for your business➡️ https://ThinkMediaMastermind.com Music provided by Epidemic Sounds. Start you...

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0:00.0

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0:05.3

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0:12.8

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0:20.4

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0:23.0

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0:28.4

This class is 100% free and you can watch it now on demand at thinkmasterclass.com. Now, let's jump

0:36.6

into today's show. If you do YouTube at all, this might be one of the

0:39.8

most important episodes that you listen to all year. YouTube is currently conducting one of the

0:44.5

largest scale demonetization enforcement initiatives that I've ever seen. Channel earning

0:51.0

$30,000 a month in YouTube ad revenue, totally demonetized. Another one that was

0:55.9

earning $7,000, demonetized. We actually got some insider information from YouTube, how to

1:01.3

protect yourself. A big theme of this is AI, but all channels need to be aware of this information.

1:09.5

So we have real case studies. We've got direct language from YouTube as well.

1:13.6

And we're going to show you a clear framework of what is and isn't okay to post so that as

1:19.6

you go through the rest of this year, you know how to navigate it.

1:22.6

Yeah. And so we've broken this conversation into parts.

1:24.6

Let's start off with just some of the things that are happening. So YouTube has deleted actually millions of channels. The big headline there, people have heard about

1:33.3

AI slop channels, super low effort, super generic. Okay, but what we're talking about is there's

1:40.7

some of the people in our community that have humans behind the channel, sometimes

1:45.2

editors that are really crafting their content, yet still they were demonetized. And these stats

1:52.5

are kind of staggering, though, because there was, as far as channels being deleted, over

1:57.3

4.7 billion lifetime views were just erased off the platform. 35 million

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