Audio & Video Monetization
IP Protection & Reporting
Protecting creators, viewers, and partners is a core priority, and everyone using the platform plays a role in maintaining a safe environment. Understanding YouTube’s Community Guidelines helps ensure content remains appropriate and compliant with platform standards.
Content intended primarily for sexual gratification is not permitted on YouTube. Pornographic material may lead to content …
Playlists can help viewers watch related videos together as a series or collection. However, playlists that contain or organize harmful or policy-violating content are not allowed on YouTube.
A helpful way to understand this policy is to imagine all videos in a playlist combined into one long video. If that combined content would …
Protecting creators, viewers, and partners remains a top priority, and everyone on the platform shares responsibility for maintaining a safe and trustworthy community. Understanding YouTube’s Community Guidelines is essential to helping prevent abuse and manipulation on the platform.
YouTube prohibits any attempt to artificially boost engagement metrics such as views, likes, comments, subscribers, …
Encouraging Violations of the Terms of Service
Content that promotes or encourages others to break YouTube’s Terms of Service may be removed from the platform. Depending on the severity or frequency of the violation, creators may also receive penalties against their account, including possible suspension or termination.
Reposting Removed or Restricted Content
Uploading …
Certain content may be allowed when shared for educational, documentary, scientific, artistic, or public-interest purposes. If you come across material that appears to violate this policy, you can report it. Some links referenced in policy pages may not be clickable.
What This Means for Creators
If you upload content to YouTube, avoid including …
Keeping creators, viewers, and partners safe is a top priority. Everyone using the platform plays a role in maintaining a secure and respectful community. Be sure to review the Community Guidelines carefully to understand how they help protect the platform and its users. You can also visit the guidelines page for a complete overview …
If you believe you’ve found specific content within any of the following AI features — such as the conversational AI tool, automatically generated quizzes, comment topics, Explore More Topics, Recap, video responses, video summaries, or conversational search — that may violate the laws of your country, you can submit a report or submit a …
YouTube prohibits misleading or deceptive election-related content that could cause serious real-world harm. This includes misinformation, manipulated media, and content that disrupts democratic processes.
Exceptions may apply for content presented in educational, documentary, scientific, artistic, or public-interest contexts.
If you encounter policy-violating content, you can report the video or channel through YouTube’s …
YouTube welcomes feedback from all users, including feedback related to accessibility, disability support, and this accessibility plan itself.
YouTube is committed to making its platform accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities, by identifying, removing, and preventing barriers across its services, policies, and practices in accordance with the Accessible Canada Act (ACA).
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