Set up your channel or video's audience

Every bit a YouTube creator, y'all are required to gear up future and existing videos as made for kids or non. Even creators who don't make content for kids need to set their audition. This will assist ensure that we offering the appropriate features on your content.

To aid y'all comply, there are made for kids audition settings on YouTube Studio. Yous can gear up your audience:

  • At the channel level, which volition set all of your futurity and existing content equally made for kids or non.
  • Or, at the video level. If yous choose this pick, y'all'll need to fix each existing and future video every bit fabricated for kids or not.

Note:

  • To set your audition as fabricated for kids, yous'll need to do and then in YouTube Studio. You won't be able to practise so in Creator Studio Classic.
  • We'll make the audience selection tool available to third-political party applications and the YouTube API Services in the near future. For now, please use YouTube Studio to upload fabricated for kids content.

Important: Why every creator must fix their audience

These changes are required as part of a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and NY Chaser General, and will help you comply with the Children'southward Online Privacy Protection Deed (COPPA) and/or other applicable laws. Regardless of your location, we require yous to tell us whether or not your videos are fabricated for kids. If you fail to set up your audience accurately, you may confront compliance issues with the FTC or other authorities, and we may take action on your YouTube account. Larn more nearly the FTC's enforcement of COPPA.

A few notes:

  • Nosotros employ machine learning to help the states identify videos that are conspicuously directed to young audiences. We trust you to set your audience accurately, merely nosotros may override your audience setting option in cases of mistake or abuse.
  • Do non rely on our systems to set your audience for you because our systems may not identify content that the FTC or other regime consider to be made for kids.
  • If you need help determining whether or not your content is fabricated for kids, check out this Help Center article or consult legal counsel.
  • Videos that you prepare equally "fabricated for kids" are more probable to be recommended alongside other kids' videos.
  • If you've already fix your audience for your video and YouTube detects error or abuse, you may see your video set as "Set to Fabricated for Kids". You lot won't be able to change your audition setting. If you recall we fabricated a error, you tin entreatment.

Set your video's audience

Y'all tin fix individual videos equally made for kids. Use this option if simply some of your videos are made for kids. If you aren't certain whether or non your content is fabricated for kids, bank check out this Help Center article.

Update the audience setting on existing videos

You may notice that YouTube has already set some videos as "made for kids". Since you haven't had a risk yet to gear up your videos as fabricated for kids or not, you'll be able to do this now:

  1. Tap Library and thenYour videos.
  2. Adjacent to the video you'd similar to edit, tap More and then Edit.
  3. Add your video details.
  4. Select"Yes, information technology's made for kids" or "No, it's not made for kids" to choose your audition. If you aren't sure, check out this Aid Center commodity.
  5. Click Salve.

Set up your alive stream's audience

Set your audience when creating a live stream

If you lot aren't sure whether or not your content is made for kids, bank check out this Assist Center article.

  1. On mobile, prepare your live stream as you unremarkably would.
  2. After you've filled out the bones information and selected a privacy setting, gyre to Audience.
  3. Select:
    • "Yep, information technology's made for kids".
    • "No, it's non made for kids".
  4. Tap Next to continue setting up your live stream.

Update the audition setting on archived alive streams

When checking your archived live streams, yous may detect that YouTube has already prepare some videos as "fabricated for kids". Since y'all haven't had a chance yet to set your archived live streams every bit made for kids or non, y'all'll be able to do this now:

  1. Open the YouTube Studio app on mobile.
  2. From the left menu, select Videos.
  3. Tap the Live tab.
  4. Bank check the boxes adjacent to the videos you'd like to edit. Annotation: You tin can select all of your videos by checking the box adjacent to "Video" at the top of your upload list.
  5. Select Edit and then Audience and then "Yep, it's fabricated for kids" if it's kids content. Or, select "No, information technology's not made for kids" if it isn't kids content.
  6. Select UPDATE VIDEOS.

Note: Nosotros'll besides utilize machine learning to help us identify videos that are clearly directed to young audiences. We trust y'all to set your audience accurately, but we may override your audition setting selection in cases of error or abuse. Even so, exercise not rely on our systems to set your audience for you because our systems may not place content that the FTC or other regime consider to exist made for kids.If you lot don't set your audience as made for kids accurately, y'all might face legal consequences or consequences on YouTube. If you demand help determining whether or non your content is made for kids, bank check out this Help Center article or consult legal counsel.

If you've already set your audience for your video and YouTube detects error or corruption, yous may see your video fix as "Gear up to Made for Kids". You won't be able to change your audience setting. If you think we made a mistake, you can appeal.

What happens when your content is set equally fabricated for kids

We limit data collection and utilize on made for kids content to comply with the police force. This means we demand to restrict or disable sure features like comments, notifications, and others.

Nearly importantly, we don't serve personalized ads on kids content, as required past the Children'southward Online Privacy Protection Human activity (COPPA) and/or other applicable laws. Non serving personalized ads on kids content may result in a decrease in acquirement for some creators who mark their content as made for kids. We recognize that this won't exist easy for some creators, but these are important steps to take to ensure compliance with COPPA and other applicable laws.

Read beneath for a list of afflicted features:

If y'all set a video or live stream equally made for kids

Starting in Jan, when you set your audience as "made for kids", we'll restrict certain features to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and other applicative laws. When this happens, the following features won't be available on individual videos or live streams:

  • Autoplay on habitation
  • Cards or end screens
  • Video watermarks
  • Channel Memberships
  • Comments
  • Donate button
  • Likes and dislikes on YouTube Music
  • Live conversation or live conversation donations
  • Trade and ticketing
  • Notification bell
  • Personalized advert
  • Playback in the Miniplayer
  • Super Conversation or Super Stickers
  • Save to playlist and Relieve to watch later

If you set your channel equally made for kids

Starting in January, if your channel is fabricated for kids, your videos or live streams won't have any of the features above. Your channel likewise won't have the following:

  • Aqueduct Memberships
  • Notification bong
  • Posts
  • Stories

Frequently Asked Questions

Why are notifications, comments, and other features turned off on content fix every bit made for kids?

To comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and other applicative laws, nosotros limit information collection on content designated as made for kids. As a event, certain features may be restricted or turned off on this content, including notifications and comments.

What happens if I fix my video's audience incorrectly?

These changes are required as part of a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and NY Chaser General, and will help you lot comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Deed (COPPA) and/or other applicable laws. Regardless of your location, we require yous to tell us whether or non your videos are made for kids. If y'all fail to gear up your audience accurately, you may confront compliance problems with the FTC or other authorities, and we may take activeness on your YouTube account. Larn more than virtually the FTC's enforcement of COPPA.

Note: We'll also use machine learning to help us identify videos that are clearly directed to young audiences. We trust you to ready your audience accurately, simply we may override your audience setting choice in cases of error or abuse. However, practice not rely on our systems to gear up your audience for you because our systems may non identify content that the FTC or other authorities consider to be made for kids.If you don't set your audience equally made for kids accurately, y'all might face legal consequences or consequences on YouTube. If you demand help determining whether or non your content is made for kids, cheque out this Help Center article or consult legal counsel.

How do I know if I've fix my video's audience correctly?

Unfortunately, we're unable to provide guidance on whether you accurately prepare your audience as made for kids, only the FTC has provided some guidance on what it ways to exist child-directed (or, "made for kids"). The FTC is currently considering various updates to COPPA, which may include providing more than guidance on this issue.

We'll also use machine learning systems to help us detect content that is conspicuously fabricated for kids. But please exercise non rely on our systems to set content for y'all -- like all automated systems, it's not perfect. We may demand to override your audience setting choice in cases where we detect error or abuse. But in near cases, we'll rely on your audience setting to determine whether a video is made for kids.

If y'all don't set your audience every bit made for kids, and the FTC or other regime think it should have been, y'all may face legal consequences. So check out this Help Middle article or seek legal counsel if you're nonetheless unsure whether or not your content should be gear up equally made for kids.

What do I do if YouTube says my video is fabricated for kids, but I disagree?

If y'all haven't fix your video's audience all the same: YouTube may have set your audition for you. This is to help y'all comply with COPPA and/or other applicative laws. However, if yous disagree with how YouTube has set up your content, you tin can yet modify the video's audience setting in most cases. Here'due south how:

  1. On a estimator, go to studio.youtube.com.
  2. From the left menu, select Content.
  3. Get to the video you lot'd like to edit and under Restrictions, select Made for kids. Note: If you lot accept more than one restriction, you may demand to hover to run across Made for kids.
  4. Click Review audience setting.
  5. Nether Audience, select "No, it's not made for kids."

If y'all've already set your audience for your video: and YouTube detects mistake or abuse, you may see your video set as "Set to made for Kids." When this happens, you won't be able to modify your audience setting.

Yet, we empathize that we sometimes make mistakes. If you think this is the case, you lot tin can appeal this decision.

To kickoff an appeal on your computer:

  1. On a reckoner, go to studio.youtube.com.
  2. From the left menu, select Content.
  3. Go to the video that yous want to appeal.
  4. Hover over "Set to made for kids" and click Entreatment.
  5. Enter your reason for appealing and click Submit.

To start an appeal on your phone:

  1. Open the YouTube Studio app.
  2. Tap Card and thenVideos.
  3. In the Uploads tab, tap the video yous want to appeal.
  4. Nether Restrictions, tap Ready toMade for kids.
  5. Tap Appeal and enter your reason for appealing.
  6. Tap Submit.

After you submit an appeal

You'll get an email from YouTube letting yous know the effect of your appeal request. Ane of the following will happen:

  • If your appeal is successful, we'll remove the fabricated for kids audience setting.
  • If your appeal is unsuccessful, the made for kids audience setting will remain on your content. Going forrard, delight review your channel and/or individual video's audition settings. Failure to set your audience accordingly may consequence in legal consequences under COPPA and/or other laws, or consequences on the YouTube platform.

You lot may appeal each video merely once.

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