YouTube Policy Violation Scanner — Monetization, Strikes, Copyright 08/2026

Scan the YouTube video you're watching for policy risk — know right away if it's at risk of demonetization (a yellow icon, limited or no ads), a copyright claim (Content ID), a community guidelines strike, or being flagged as spam — right on the YouTube page, no extra tab. A video that isn't on YouTube yet can be checked too: pick the file straight from your computer and see the risk BEFORE you hit Publish. WHY SCAN EARLY A video earns most of its revenue in the first days after upload — the exact window when a demonetization hit or a copyright claim does the most damage. YouTube doesn't warn you instantly: automated review can take hours, sometimes days, before a yellow dollar icon or a claim shows up on your video. In that gap, you're flying blind while the video burns through its best momentum. Scanning early closes that gap. Knowing which segment is risky while the video still has momentum means you can trim or blur the problem clip in YouTube's own editor, swap out music that's triggering a claim, demonetize just the sensitive segment instead of letting the whole video go yellow, fix a title or thumbnail that reads as misleading, or line up your appeal before the strike lands. If you already have a back catalog, rescanning old videos is worth it too. Every time YouTube tightens a policy, older uploads get re-evaluated against the new bar — plenty of channels lose monetization over a batch of old videos, not the newest one. Sweeping the whole catalog first tells you what to delete, what to make private, and what to fix. WHAT'S IN THE REPORT The AI watches the footage and listens to the audio — not just the title and description — then scores five categories: MONETIZATION — risk of a yellow icon, limited ads, or no ads at all: profanity, violence, adult or suggestive content, drugs, weapons, controversial or sensitive topics that advertisers avoid. COPYRIGHT — background music, film clips, images, narration, or third-party software that Content ID is likely to match, leading to revenue-share claims, country-by-country blocks, or a copyright strike. COMMUNITY GUIDELINES — risk of removal, a warning, or a strike heading toward channel termination: harassment, hate speech, harmful misinformation, dangerous acts and challenges, content unsuitable for minors. SPAM & DECEPTIVE PRACTICES — clickbait titles or thumbnails that promise one thing and deliver another, fake-engagement bait, misleading redirects to other platforms, malicious or scammy links in the description. CONTENT AUTHENTICITY — risk to the WHOLE CHANNEL's monetization eligibility under the reused/inauthentic content policy: footage lifted from other sources with no added value, mass-produced or repetitive content, videos lacking a clear point of view. THREE RISK LEVELS, NO GUESSWORK Every category gets exactly one of three ratings: • Safe — nothing concerning found in that category. • Low Risk — something worth noting, not urgent, but worth a second look. • High Risk — something YouTube's own systems are likely to act on, worth fixing before it does. No vague 7.5/10 score to interpret. Three levels, clearly colored, so you know what to do next at a glance. TIMESTAMPS AND FIXES This is what sets it apart from guessing on your own. Every issue found comes with an exact [mm:ss] timestamp, so you jump straight to that moment instead of scrubbing through the entire video hoping to spot the problem. Each issue ships with a practical fix, written from a creator's point of view, not quoted policy text: which seconds to cut, which track to swap for royalty-free music, which line to mute or bleep, how to rewrite a title or redesign a thumbnail so it stops reading as misleading, and — if a claim has already landed — what to cite when you file an appeal. HOW TO USE 1. Open the YouTube video you want checked. 2. Click the button that appears right on the YouTube page. 3. Wait for the analysis, then read the report on the spot. No copying links to another site, no separate tool to open, no account to create. KEY FEATURES • Scans right on the YouTube page — no tab-switching, no separate dashboard. • Written for creators, not machine-translated legal text. • Five policy categories, one consistent 3-level risk scale. • A [mm:ss] timestamp for every issue — jump straight to it. • A concrete, practical fix for every issue found. • Saves past results: reopen a video you already scanned and the report is already there, no extra analysis used. • Choose between a Quality mode and a Speed mode depending on the video's length and how urgent the check is. • Works on your own videos and on any public video on YouTube. • Checks videos that aren't published yet: pick a file from your computer (up to 400MB) to see the risk before uploading it to YouTube. • Free, no ads, no paid tier limiting how often you can use it. WHO IT'S FOR Creators of any size, multi-channel managers, MCNs and creator networks, video editors, brand social-media teams, business channel admins — anyone who needs to know a video's policy risk before that risk turns into lost revenue. Also useful for newer creators still working toward monetization eligibility: knowing exactly which category keeps tripping you up lets you fix the underlying habit in how you make videos, not just patch one upload after the fact. REAL-WORLD USE CASES • Just uploaded a video and want to know its demonetization risk while there's still time to fix it. • A video that was trending suddenly drops — you suspect a restriction but can't tell why. • Used background music pulled from an online source and aren't sure if it's Content ID protected. • Clipped in footage from someone else's channel and want to know which segment is riskiest. • Just took a strike and want to check the rest of the catalog before a second one lands. • About to apply for monetization and need to rule out videos that could drag the whole channel down. • Just took over management of a channel with hundreds of videos and nee…