Independent compliance watch for creators

YouTube won’t warn you. We will.

In the real world, a business worth millions does not disappear in a day. On YouTube it can — no warning, one appeal, decision final. The only thing that can change is whether anyone is watching the next time the rules move. Know where your catalog stands — today.

no sign-in · no passwords · no account access

One email with your report — usually the same day. No newsletter, no drip campaign — if we write again, it will be a person, about your channel.

From a real scan · unedited full report →
TheFirearmGuy · 500 videos scanned
At risk · 3/3 judges

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Rule, quoted
“Accessories that enable a firearm to simulate automatic fire” — Firearms policy
Ruled out
Weapon manufacturing — a commercial trigger, no fabrication shown
YouTube age-restricted this exact video — independently. Our judges found it blind, from the title and cover alone.
5M
channels removed in one quarter — YouTube’s own transparency report
130K
channels reportedly erased by one automated sweep system in six months
$625K
estimated yearly revenue of the average channel erased in January’s sweep
1
appeal per video — and the decision is final
0
insurance policies cover a platform ban

The proof

Three real scans, published unedited.

Claims are cheap — here is the work itself. Three channels picked before we knew anything about them, judged blind. These are the exact reports the creator receives — including the one where the right answer was “nothing”.

Nothing found

Disaster documentaries

437 videos on nuclear accidents and industrial catastrophes. Grim subject matter throughout — and not one false alarm. A lobotomy engraving is an engraving, not surgery.

Why it matters: the hard part is a scanner that does not invent problems.

 2 findings

True-crime podcast

500 videos. 42 titles crossed our threshold and not one thumbnail did — the channel is people talking in a studio. The findings are in two titles that describe an act, not a topic.

Why it matters: a one-signal scanner would have raised 42 alarms.

 1 finding

Firearms reviews

500 videos, every one about guns. The scan stayed quiet through the ordinary reviews and stopped on a single trigger device demonstrated firing — the one video actually against policy.

Why it matters: a keyword filter flags all 500. We flagged one, and named the clause.

1,437 VIDEOS AUDITED ACROSS THESE THREE CHANNELS · EVERY JUDGEMENT MADE BLIND

What the Warden does

Prevention as the whole job.
Not a feature on the side.

Growth tools optimize your next upload. Recovery firms show up after the funeral. We are the layer in between — the one that keeps you off their client list.

Audit

Where do I stand right now?

The Catalog Audit. Every video, read against today’s rules. Never “this looks risky” — always the clause quoted word for word, the date that policy last changed, and the edit. Old videos were made under rules that no longer exist.
Remonetization. Rules get repealed; restrictions don’t lift themselves. We find the videos restricted under rules that no longer exist. You have one appeal per video, forever — so no recommendation ships without a human read.

Watch

Tell me the moment anything changes.

The Policy Ledger. We read the rulebook every day, so you never have to. Every change — dated, quoted old vs. new, and mapped to who it affects: “this touches 6 of your videos.”
The pre-publish check. Ten minutes before upload beats a million views after. Every new video checked against current rules before it goes live — the weekly rhythm of Shield.

Evidence

The record, ready when it matters.

The Dossier. If the worst happens, you arrive with evidence — not memories. When you were clean, under which rules, what was fixed and when. The one thing an appeal can carry that no one can produce after the strike.
A human who knows your channel. Tools give scores; we give judgment. Every finding is read by a person — that is why a documentary about lobotomy came back clean and a trigger device did not.

The policy ledger — live

every change, dated and quoted · this is what the watch reads
15 JUL 2025“Repetitious” becomes “Inauthentic content”▲ tightened· 16 JAN 2026Domestic violence, self-harm, abortion topics — fully monetizable▼ relaxed· JAN 202616 channels, 35M subscribers erased in one sweep▲ enforcement· APR 2026New advertiser-friendly enforcement wave▲ tightened· WATCHINGmonetization policies · ad guidelines · community guidelines24/7· 15 JUL 2025“Repetitious” becomes “Inauthentic content”▲ tightened· 16 JAN 2026Domestic violence, self-harm, abortion topics — fully monetizable▼ relaxed· JAN 202616 channels, 35M subscribers erased in one sweep▲ enforcement· APR 2026New advertiser-friendly enforcement wave▲ tightened· WATCHINGmonetization policies · ad guidelines · community guidelines24/7·

How it works

Depth follows trust.

You start by giving us nothing. Each step asks a little more — and returns a lot more.

Public · no access

The free scan

Public data only. Titles, thumbnails, categories — read the way a policy reviewer reads them.

No sign-in. No passwords. No account access.

$0

Private · captions + view-only

The catalog audit

We read every video against today’s rules — you hand us the subtitles in two clicks. Every finding: the clause quoted, the date that policy last changed, the fix — plus the remonetization list.

$399 one-time · 5 days · the free scan comes first

Continuous · monitoring

The watch

Every new video checked the day it goes up. Every rule change → your whole catalog re-read against the new clause, same day. With a human on call.

$99/mo · with human $299/mo

And above all three — a human: Shield reads the file before it goes live, and answers within 72 hours.

Why it matters

We study every channel that dies.

Not to scare you — to know exactly what the signal was, and who wasn’t watching it. Every case below has a name and a source. Every one of them had a warning sign. Nobody was reading it.

Case files

Case 01 · documented by Deadline

Screen Culture — 1.4M subscribers

March 2025: demonetized for misleading AI trailers. Fixed its metadata — monetization restored. Kept going without watching the rules. December 2025: terminated.

The lesson: the right fix brings the money back. A fix without a watch only postpones the end.

Case 02 · the January sweep

16 channels · 35M subscribers · one day

Channels with up to 6M subscribers — erased under “inauthentic content,” a rule renamed six months earlier. Not one banned word. No warning. The format itself was the violation.

The lesson: keyword checkers can’t save you. We read the content, not the labels.

Heard every week

“Two years of work, 300+ videos, 56K subs — gone in a second.”

“YouTube gave me a Silver Play Button and terminated me the same day.”

“My 800K channel has died overnight. What’s going on?”

VERBATIM POST TITLES · r/PartneredYoutube — the forum for monetized creators

Why not a cheaper tool

A checker reads words. We read the catalogue.

You have probably tried one. Here is the whole difference, in five lines.

Checkers & growth suites CreatorWarden
What it reads Your title and your tags Every video, against 1,840 quoted clauses
What you get A risk score The clause, its date, and the edit
What it is One feature inside a growth suite The only thing we build
When it stops When you close the tab Never — rules tracked daily, dossier sealed monthly
Who reads it Nobody A person, before it reaches you

No fine print

What we cover. What we won’t promise.

Every second offer on this market promises miracles. We’d rather be exact.

We cover

  • The rulebook, quoted — not paraphrased. 1,840 clauses pulled word for word from YouTube’s own policies. Zero of them written by us.
  • A finding you can argue with. Every one names the clause, the evidence, and the nearest clause we rejected — so you can overrule us.
  • Two judges that must agree. On one channel, 42 titles crossed our threshold and no thumbnail did. A single-signal tool would have sent 42 alarms. We sent two findings.
  • Silence when your catalogue is fine. 500 firearm reviews, one finding. 500 videos on drug policy, none. The restraint is the product.
  • Catalog drift & remonetization. Rules change with a date; your old videos don’t. Some became dangerous. Some can earn again.
  • The dossier. A documented history — when you were clean, under which rules, what was fixed and when. The one thing an appeal can carry that nobody can produce after the strike.

We don’t promise

  • Immunity from YouTube’s decisions — anyone who guarantees that is lying to you
  • Growth or SEO — good tools exist for that already
  • Per-video prediction — we measured it ourselves: between two near-identical videos from the same channel, nobody beats a coin flip. We work at the level YouTube actually enforces — the kind of content
  • “Shadowban diagnosis” — the recommendation algorithm is opaque; we don’t sell the unprovable
  • Tricks against the platform — we protect channels, we don’t outsmart rules

Pricing

A termination takes everything.
The Warden takes 1.4%.

For a channel earning $250k a year, round-the-clock protection costs 1.4% of revenue. The first look is free.

Scan

Know where you stand.

$0
free · no account
  • Your entire public catalogue
  • Both judges — title and cover
  • Reasoned dossier on the top candidates, each judged three times and the vote shown
  • Your category’s measured base risk
  • Nothing to sign, nothing to revoke
Scan my channel

Early access — your report the same day.

Deep Audit

Where do I stand right now?

$399
one-time · up to 500 videos · 5 working days · invoiced up front
  • Everything the outside can’t see: your captions read in full — findings located to the second, not “somewhere in the video”
  • Your channel’s own truth: the actual restriction labels and rejection reasons, read with your permission — not inferred from outside
  • The yellow dollar, seen directly — per video, via view-only access you grant in Studio and can revoke with one click
  • Clause quoted, policy-change date, fix for every finding + the remonetization list — videos restricted under rules that no longer exist
Everything included
  • The inspector’s note. Signed on your report by the person who read it — reply, and the same person answers.
  • The frames inside, where it matters. For the few videos we cannot clear from the outside, we ask for those files specifically — and read the frames. Never all 500; the five that matter.
  • The sealed dossier — a dated record of your channel, the rules in force that day, and every finding. Each entry carries the fingerprint of the one before it: alter a character later and verification fails. This is what an appeal is built from.
  • 45-minute walkthrough call
Get the Deep Audit

Early access — we reply the same working day.

Guard

Tell me the moment anything changes.

$99
per month · runs on your Deep Audit
  • Every new video checked the day it goes up
  • Rule changes: your whole catalog re-read against the new clause, same day
  • Status watch: restrictions and yellow-dollar changes, reported when they happen — not when revenue drops
  • Monthly report — and a new sealed entry in your dossier every month, so the record keeps growing while nothing happens
Everything included
  • One appeal dossier per quarter. Clause quoted, evidence, and the dated record behind it — ready to send, not written in a panic that evening
  • Your Deep Audit pays for this. Subscribe within 30 days and $200 of it comes off — the first two months, already paid
Start with Guard

Early access — we reply the same working day.

Shield

Check it before it goes live — and stand with me when it goes wrong.

$299
per month · a few seats
  • Everything in Guard
  • Pre-publication review. Send the video before it goes live — we read the frames and the script, not just the metadata. The cheapest restriction is the one never uploaded.
  • Inside the video, not just the cover. You send the file; we sample frames through the whole runtime and at every scene change. This is the gap nothing outside can close — in our own measurement, one age-restricted video had a technical line drawing as its cover, and the restriction came from footage inside it.
  • Appeal dossiers without limit — and we argue them. Written for you against the specific clause, with the dated record behind it
Everything included
  • A written answer within 72 hours — any incident, any question, from a person who knows your channel
  • The inspector’s note on every report. Signed by the person who read your findings — with a direct line back: reply, and the same person answers.
  • A quarterly review — where your catalogue stands and what changed. Written, or a call if you prefer.
Get Shield

Early access — we reply the same working day.

How buying works during early access. The free scan comes first, always — a real report on your own catalogue, before you pay anything. That is the trial. If you then want the audit, we agree the scope and invoice it up front; no card and no checkout, just an invoice from a registered company. Most catalogues come back quiet — that is the most common result, and being able to trust it is what you are paying for.

Running several channels? One dashboard, shared ledger, priority human. From $600/mo for 3 channels — pricing scales with the count, quoted per network. Talk to us.

Who’s behind this

We built this after it happened to us.

On a market drowning in phishing, the first proof is a face.

Bozhidar Yanakiev
Bozhidar Yanakiev Founder · Clever Arts Ltd

My team and I come from this industry. We have made video for years — and we have been on the receiving end of YouTube’s enforcement ourselves: no warning, one appeal, decision final. That is not a line from a report. That was our inbox.

So we built what would have saved us: something that warns a creator before it is too late, instead of explaining afterwards what went wrong.

We made the videosWe know what a catalogue costs to build.
We lost the channelsThat is why the first scan is free.
We build the softwareRulebook, judges and archive are ours — not licensed.

Clever Arts Ltd, a registered Bulgarian company. Number, address and the person legally responsible are in our Terms — most of what lands in your inbox will not publish those.

Access & permissions

CreatorWarden can

  • Read the public data of your channel
  • Read the caption files you export and send
  • Use view-only Studio access you grant — and revoke in one click
  • Keep the sealed, dated record of every finding

CreatorWarden cannot

  • Upload, edit or delete anything
  • Publish or change your channel in any way
  • Act on your behalf towards YouTube
  • See your password — we never ask for one
Is it really just one appeal?

It depends on the decision. For per-video monetization reviews, YouTube states one appeal — and the reviewer’s decision is final. Age-restriction appeals are in practice one attempt per video. Community Guidelines strikes and channel terminations have their own processes — but none of them offers a second chance once the review is done. That is why we prepare the evidence before you need it.

Do you guarantee I won’t get banned?

No — and nobody honest can, because the decisions are YouTube’s. What we guarantee: you’ll know what in your catalog violates today’s rules, you’ll hear about every change that touches you, and if the worst happens you’ll hold a documented dossier instead of memories.

Do you need access to my account?

Not for the free scan — it reads public data only. For the Deep Audit we ask for two things: your caption files (exported from Studio in two clicks) and view-only access — so we can see the real restriction labels, the rejection reasons, and the yellow dollar per video, none of which is visible from outside. And for the handful of videos we cannot clear even then, we ask for those files specifically and read the frames inside. We never watch all 500 — we watch the five that matter. You revoke the access the moment we are done. Never a password. Never write permissions.

Why not just use TubeBuddy’s free checker?

Because a keyword checker and a compliance audit are not the same product — the five-line comparison above sets them side by side. One practical note: TubeBuddy lists 50K+ subscribers among the criteria that can move an account to business licensing — which is roughly where this problem starts to cost real money.

The warden watches while you create

Find out today.
Not when it’s too late.

Channels die with no warning — the scan is how you get one. It asks nothing of you: no sign-in, no passwords, no account access. One email with your report — usually the same day.

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