Appeal strikes and restrictions

Keep your YouTube account in good standing

Violating our Community Guidelines or copyright policies can affect your account standing. Accounts in bad standing lose access to certain account features and programs. To stay in good standing, your account must have:

  • No Community Guidelines strikes
  • No copyright strikes
  • No more than one video blocked worldwide by Content ID
Check your account standing

You can check your account standing on the Features page, under your Channel Settings.

Penalties that affect your account standing

Community Guidelines strikes

If you receive a Community Guidelines strike and feel that your video was removed in error, you may appeal the strike. The strike will expire in six months.

Copyright strikes

If you receive a copyright strike, you may ask the person who requested removal of your video to retract their claim. If you believe that your video was removed in error, you may submit a counter notification. The strike will expire in six months, as long as you complete Copyright School and don’t receive another copyright strike in that time.

Content ID global blocks

If a copyright owner uses Content ID to claim and block your video worldwide, you’ll be warned that your account is in danger of falling into bad standing. If you receive a second global Content ID block within 30 days, your account will fall into bad standing. The penalty associated with each global block expires after 30 days. If you believe that a video has been blocked in error, you may dispute the associated claim. Keep in mind, invalid disputes can result in copyright strikes.

Deleting videos which put your account in bad standing won’t restore your good standing.

Features available to accounts in good standing

The following YouTube features are among those restricted to users who are in good standing:

Certain channel features for YouTube creators are also restricted to accounts in good standing.

Accounts in bad standing won’t be able to join the YouTube Partner Program. YouTube partners may have theirmonetization disabled for a different set of reasons.

Please note that for many of these features, good standing is not the only criteria for access. If you’re in good standing and don’t have access to certain features, you may need to verify your account.

Appealing video strikes on your channel

Strikes are issued when our reviewers identify a violation of the Community Guidelines. When a strike is issued, an email is sent to the user and an alert will also appear the next time they sign into YouTube in their Channel Settings.

Our reviewers are highly trained, but are human and do sometimes make mistakes. If you feel that your video does not violate our Community Guidelines and was removed in error, you can appeal the strike within your account.

Please note : Deleting the video will not resolve the strike. If you delete your video the strike will remain and you will not be able to appeal.

Appeal a strike

  1. Visit your Channel Settings
  2. Click the arrow next to the Community Guidelines section to show your strikes
  3. Click Appeal this decision link as shown below

Appeal a strikeIf we find that your video did not violate our Community Guidelines, we will reinstate it and remove the strike from your account. In some instances, it is possible that we will remove the strike from your account but your video will remain down from the site. You will receive an email from us informing you of the result of your appeal request.

You may appeal each video strike only once. If we uphold our original decision on the strike, you will be unable to appeal future strikes on your account for a period of 60 days.

If your video was removed for copyright reasons, you can visit the YouTube Copyright Center to learn about your options.

Copyright strike basics

If you get a copyright strike, that means your video has been taken down from YouTube because a copyright owner sent us a complete legal request asking us to do so. When a copyright owner formally notifies us that you don’t have their permission to post their content on the site, we’re required by law to take down your upload.

Keep in mind, videos can be removed from the site for different reasons, not all of which are copyright-related. Also, most copyright claims don’t result in a strike. If you’re not sure what’s going on, we have a guide that will help you understand the copyright claim on your video.

What happens to your account when you get a copyright strike?

Receiving a copyright strike will put your account in bad standing and you will lose access to certain YouTube features.

If you receive three copyright strikes, your account will be terminated. All the videos uploaded to your account will be removed. Users with terminated accounts aren’t able to create new accounts.

Where to find information about your strike

You can find any of your videos with copyright strikes in the copyright notices section of your Video Manager, unless you’ve deleted them. Click copyright strike next to your video to learn more about the removal.

Deleting a video with a strike won’t resolve your strike.

How to resolve a copyright strike

There are three ways to resolve a copyright strike.

  1. Wait for it to expire: A copyright strike will expire in six months as long as you complete Copyright School and receive no additional copyright strikes during that time.
  2. Get a retraction: You can contact the person who claimed your video and ask them to retract their claim of copyright infringement.
  3. Submit a counter notification: If your video was mistakenly removed because it was misidentified as infringing, or qualifies as a potential fair use, you may wish to submit a counter notification.

Strike basics for content managers

If you’re a partner with multiple channels, violations of YouTube’s policies by channels you manage will result in “partner strikes.” Accumulating ten or more partner strikes will lead to the loss of features and other penalties for you and your managed channels.

Partner strikes and their associated penalties are applied in addition to YouTube’s channel strike policies.

Learn more about individual channel penalties

How partner strikes work

You will receive a partner strike for every copyright strike issued to one of your managed channels. Partner strikes are considered “pending” for the first 30 days. This provides an opportunity to resolve the underlying copyright strike, if appropriate, which will resolve its associated partner strike. If you’re unable to resolve the partner strike within 30 days, it will become an “active” partner strike. If you accumulate more than ten active partner strikes, penalties will apply. After 90 days (120 days after the copyright strike was issued), the partner strike will expire and be removed from your total.

Partner strikes represent copyright strikes received by your managed channels. You can not resolve a partner strike by removing the channel with the underlying copyright strike, and you will not receive partner strikes for adding a managed channel that has existing copyright strikes.

Multi-channel networks (MCNs) also need to monitor suspensions for affiliated channels. If 1000 or more affiliate channels are suspended in any 90-day period, the MCN loses the ability to roll-up or add new channels.

Partner strike penalties

Incurring partner strikes beyond the limits outlined below will result in penalties in addition to the existing channel strike policies. These penalties will remain in effect until your partner strikes fall below the given threshold.

To maintain full access to your YouTube features, remain below ten active partner strikes.

If you accumulate 10 active partner strikes, you won’t be allowed to add new channels or move channels between your content owners. You’ll still be able to remove channels; however, as noted above, removing a channel will not resolve any partner strikes related to that channel’s copyright strikes.
If you accumulate 15 active partner strikes, the channels you manage will lose access to many YouTube promotional features, including the ability to create new custom thumbnails, modify channel art, add new annotations, ‘like’ videos, and use tools like InVideo Programming. Existing thumbnails, annotations, and other promotional features already in place will continue to exist.
If you accumulate 20 active partner strikes, channels you manage won’t be able to upload new videos or create livestreams. YouTube may also terminate your partnership.

Avoiding penalties

To avoid accumulating partner strikes, we suggest you:

  • Use care when selecting new channels to manage. Avoid adding channels that might pose a risk to your good standing.
  • Educate the channels you manage about copyright, YouTube’s Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, and ensure they act in accordance with YouTube’s policies.
  • Ensure you maintain proper internal controls as you increase the number of channels you manage.

You can always view your partner strikes within your YouTube account. If you believe any of the associated copyright strikes are invalid, you may wish to learn more about filing counter notifications or requesting claim retractions.

Learn more about resolving copyright strikes

Appeal the age restriction on your video

Our Community Guidelines describe what content is allowed and not allowed on YouTube. They are the rules of the road and every video must adhere to them. When videos violate these guidelines, we remove them. Some videos don’t violate our policies, but may not be appropriate for all audiences. We age-restrict these. In deciding whether to age restrict content we consider issues such as violence, disturbing imagery, nudity, sexually suggestive content, and portrayal of dangerous or illegal activities.

When a video is age-restricted, a warning screen displays before the video plays. Only users 18 years of age or older can then proceed to view the material. In order to reduce the chances of users accidentally stumbling across these videos, they are not shown in certain sections of YouTube.

Appealing the Age Restriction on your Video

Users have the ability to appeal an age-restriction. If your video was age-restricted you can appeal it on your accountVideo Manager page by clicking on the “Appeals Link” next to your age-restricted video. The YouTube team will review your request and take further action if appropriate. Please note that you may only appeal the age restriction on your video once.

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