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@all_secured @YouTube In my own experience and from what I hear from others, once you're channel has been hit with invalid traffic, it's only a matter of time until it's hit again. @TeamYouTube Why restrict ads on the entire channel and not just on the video(s) receiving invalid traffic?

I hate that I'm having to spend time on this, but I need to document this for my own sake and (maybe) for others. Here is what is happening on my @YouTube channel right now... (thread 🧵👇)

@lonseidman @YouTubeLiaison I 2nd that. Seems like another wave of the invalid traffic problem started a few days ago for many channels. It‘s really disappointing that all we can do is beg @TeamYouTube to help. And after over a year still nothing has changed.

@YouTubeLiaison I think a lot of small creators getting impacted with invalid traffic (again) would like to get some clarity and transparency from YouTube about why it's happening and why it's disproportionately impacting small creators.

What are the biggest myths and misconceptions about YouTube that you still hear on a regular basis?

@koushikmalla999 happy to hear that, thanks!

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Here we go again. Youtube ad revenue dropped by 95% overnight. Didn't even get an invalid traffic notification this time. Analytics look normal as always. @TeamYouTube @YouTubeLiaison

@andriigrh @graphicious I don‘t know if it helped, bit my theory is that „fake views“ usually don‘t get to the first mid-roll ad. So maybe just turning pre-roll ads off could help. But I don‘t know. It would be @TeamYouTube‘s job to figure it out but they don‘t talk to us.

@graphicious @meticsmedia Did it help?

For everyone who's been affected by the invalid traffic issue on youtube but now it's back to normal: Before it got fixed, did you turn off preroll ads or not?

@andriigrh so far still ok here

@meticsmedia Congrats! Is it still good? I had also recovery, but today another Invalid Traffic message..

UPDATE on Youtube Invalid Traffic Issue: After 47 days of being affected, I see a recovery. Things I‘ve tried (I don‘t know if anything actually helped): - turn off embedding and advertising feature on all vids - turn off monetization for 1 week - turn off preroll ads

@IvanManaReal well, the whole thing shouldn‘t happen in the first place. But it does.

@meticsmedia I didnt change a single thing because you shouldn't have to

@seandollwet wow that sucks

@meticsmedia Mine came back after a month without doing anything, then 4 days later it happened again

@IBRAGODYT I have them turned off now but I saw that things went back to normal for people regardless of pre-roll ads activation. So I‘ll probably try and turn them on again on one channel to see what happens. I think pre-roll ads are about 40% of the whole ad revenue.

@meticsmedia I tried turning off prerolls and it seems like it worked, also do you keep prerolls off or have you turned them on already? Also for new uploads?

@indishor @Daniel_Batal I also turned the feature off but still get views from youtube advertising.

@nicheawesome nice! Yes let‘s hope it stays.

@meticsmedia Same for me but I haven't done anything, just hope it is permanent but still have the Ads Limited warning in my dashboard

@IBRAGODYT disabled them like 3 days ago when I turned on monetization again. But don‘t know if that did anything really.

@meticsmedia For how long did you diable the prerolls, do you still have it disabled?

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@meticsmedia how did you turn of the advertising feature?

@chrishsmn you still have pre-roll ads on?

“Disable the setting for the ability for non-linked Ad Accounts to use your videos as video advertisements” This seems to have fixed my YouTube invalid traffic. Took about 2 weeks. Turn that ad sharing off 👍 #youtube #invalidtraffic

@graphicious Oh nice🙌

@meticsmedia Whoa! I just checked mine and I see the same thing you do! Let’s hope it’s the fix we’ve been waiting for. #invalidtraffic

@graphicious yeah, I know that I might wake up tomorrow to another invalid traffic message. @YouTube needs to fix this flawed invalid traffic detection system. Anyone could send fake views to any channel and make them lose 90% of ad revenue over night.

@meticsmedia That's awesome. Let's hope it stays up for you. I've seen other people who had a one-day spike and then back down. Hoping this is not the case for you. I've also disabled all the things you said but so far, no sign of recovery.

@vinsanereviews I‘ve noticed that too on some videos actually.. it‘s weird. I just turned them off whereever possible

@meticsmedia Most of my videos don't allow me to disable pre roll ads even on 8 minute + videos sadly congrats though great to see