Hey everybody! Starting up my YouTube channel and found this subreddit; super cool that this exists.
I searched past threads to see if anybody had had this specific issue before and saw similar posts but nothing quite matching my issue, so I figured I'd start a new one.
So I posted my first video a couple weeks ago and it was really successful, which I'm really grateful for. It's done 130k views with like 20k+ hours of watch time, and got me to 5k subscribers. Since I hit the subscriber and watch time threshold for full monetization with just the one video, it allowed me to apply for the YPP despite not having the 3 videos you need for the first level of monetization.
I applied and got the message many folks have reported getting about there being an issue with my AdSense account. Upon further examination, I think I know what the issue is.
I had mentioned at the end of my video and in the description that I want to donate a percentage of the ad revenue I eventually make on my channel to a nonprofit, because I didn't realize that went against AdSense policies. In hindsight, it makes sense that that's not allowed but I just didn't think about it; I just wanted to commit to doing what I think is a good thing.
Obviously I can just delete the mention of this from the description, but since my video has over 100k views, the trim tool is no longer available to cut the mention of it out of the video.
So, all that to say, I assume I'll just have to delete the video correct? And then of course not promise to donate any revenue to a nonprofit again. Otherwise, I'll just keep getting rejected and/or risk getting demonetized down the road?
And then once I delete it, I won't have enough watch time (I posted a second video now that has 2k watch time but obviously that's not enough), so I'm not sure how that would work with my eligibility for the program since I already began my application?
So perhaps I can just change the video to private or unlisted? But that may mean the watch hours aren't categorized as public anymore?
If anybody has any advice, it would be greatly appreciated. I feel pretty naive for not looking into this more closely before making that mention in the video, but I can't change it now. Just gotta fix it.
Thanks!