How to Speed Up the Channel in Review Monetization Process.
- Congratulations, you've hit the requirements on YouTube to monetize your content. 1,000 subscribers, 4,000 hours of watch time. It was hard work. You applied for monetization, and then you got stuck in review for weeks, even months.
It's really annoying being stuck in this limbo with no information about when it's going to be resolved and no real way to contact YouTube. Until now, because we got an awesome comment from one of the members of our vidIQ community telling us their channel had been in review for three months, and after trying this strategy they got their channel approved in two days.
And we wanna share that with you right now. Let's do this. - vidIQ. - vidIQ. - Vidiq.com. - Hello everybody, welcome to vidIQ. My name is Rob. If this is your first time in these glorious YouTube surroundings, we are the YouTube tool and channel that aims to help you get more views in less time by educating you on your YouTube journey.
Our Chrome extension is free to download. A link is in the description. And if you do have vidIQ installed, make sure to stick around to the end of this video, as I need to show you an extra little tip to make sure that you can get this contact point with YouTube to try and monetize your content.
Let's jump into it right now. You're going to want to head to the Creator Studio for this one, so in the top right-hand corner of any YouTube page, click on your channel logo, and then click on Creator Studio.
When you reach your dashboard, and by the way, you need to do this in the classic Creator Studio, click on Channel and then Monetization to get to the monetization screen, which I'm sure you're very familiar with by now.
It will look a little different to what we have here because we are monetized. It will look something like this. So your channel meets the requirements of 1,000 subscribers, 4,000 hours of watch time, but it's under review and it has been for a considerable length of time.
What can you do about it? This is the button you want to press, Help and feedback. It will bring up a small popup with a range of options, and you want to click Send feedback. This brings up the Send feedback tool in the middle of the screen, and it takes a screenshot of what's currently on your desktop.
In other words, your monetization requirements, which you've met, and allows you to type in a message to YouTube. To give you a little bit of help with what to write, I asked the community member, My Name Is Andong, what he posted to YouTube, and this is what he wrote.
"Hi, YouTube team. "I've been under review for monetization since whenever. "I am well over the required watch time "and subscriber counts. "Please let me know if everything is okay "or who I can get in touch with "to move my application forward.
" Now, I don't know about you, but that seems like a very reasonable request to me. Once you've typed it out, you can click on the Send button. Fingers crossed, let's see what happens. Now, a quick disclaimer here, we're not guaranteeing that YouTube are gonna respond to your feedback.
However, we do know that there's thousands of you out there who are desperately trying to resolve your in-review situation. And it is very hard to contact YouTube, so any opportunity to give them a bit of a nudge is worth a try, so good luck.
And the thing I need to tell you about vidIQ. If you do have the Chrome extension installed, click on the vidIQ button in the Chrome browser, go down to Settings, and make sure to switch off all the settings temporarily, as it can conflict with YouTube when you try and create that screenshot to send to them.
Thank you very much once again to My Name Is Andong for this awesome suggestion. If you want a lot more information about YouTube monetization, we've got a huge playlist right here. And if you want to learn more about the YouTube tips and tricks that we have here at vidIQ, we've got another enormous playlist down here.
Enjoy the rest of your video-making day and we'll see on those videos right now. Good luck with your monetization requests.