130K
channels terminated by automated systems in six months
Independent compliance watch for creators
YouTube’s systems terminated 130,000 channels in six months — no warning, one appeal, decision final. The average channel erased in January’s sweep was earning $625,000 a year. Know where your catalog stands — today.
no sign-in · no passwords · no account access
We never ask for passwords or permissions. Public data only — you compare the findings against your own Studio.
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?”
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Case files
Not to scare you — to know exactly what the signal was, and who wasn’t watching it. Every case below had a warning sign. Nobody was reading it.
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.
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.
What the Warden does
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.
Every change — dated, quoted old vs. new, and mapped to who it affects. Subscribers get a personal briefing: “this touches 6 of your videos.”
Clause. Date. Fix.
Never “this looks risky” — always “clause X, in force since 15 Jul 2025, here’s the edit.” Old videos were made under rules that no longer exist. Some became dangerous. Some can earn again.
Our rulebook: 1,840 clauses extracted verbatim from YouTube’s published policies. Zero invented text.
Find nothing substantial → you don’t pay.
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.
Every new video, checked against current rules before it goes live. The weekly rhythm of the subscription.
A documented history: 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 briefing at every rule change. A call within 72 hours in every enforcement wave. Quarterly reviews. An advisor, not an insurer — a doctor doesn’t promise immortality.
The proof
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”.
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 findings500 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 finding500 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
How it works
You start by giving us nothing. Each step asks a little more — and returns a lot more.
Public data only. Titles, thumbnails, categories — read the way a policy reviewer reads them.
No sign-in. No passwords. No account access.
$0We read every video against today’s rules — you hand us the subtitles in two clicks. Every finding: the clause, its date, the fix — plus the remonetization list.
$399 one-time · 5 days · nothing found = nothing paidEvery new video checked pre-publish. Every rule change → your whole catalog re-read against the new clause, same day. With a human on call.
$99/mo · with human $299/moNo fine print
Every second offer on this market promises miracles. We’d rather be exact.
We cover
We don’t promise
Pricing
One appeal, decision final — that is the whole safety net YouTube gives you. For a channel earning $250k a year, full protection costs 1.4% of revenue. The first look is free.
Studio or network running 3–50 channels? One dashboard, shared ledger, priority human — from $600/mo. Talk to us.
Who’s behind this
On a market drowning in phishing, the first proof is a face.
Bozhidar Yanakiev — founder I built the rulebook behind this service: 1,840 clauses extracted verbatim from YouTube’s published policies, and a method tested on thousands of real videos before it was ever sold. CreatorWarden is operated by Clever Arts Ltd, a registered Bulgarian company — the details are in our Terms.
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.
Not for the free scan — it reads public data only. For the audit we need your subtitle files (you export them from Studio in two clicks) and, optionally, read-only access so we can see which videos carry limited ads. Never a password. Never write permissions.
It checks whether your title and tags contain risky words. The channels erased in January 2026 had not a single risky word — the format itself was the violation. We read the content against the actual clauses, and a human weighs the verdicts. Also: TubeBuddy’s cheap plans are contractually unavailable to channels over 50,000 subscribers.
The warden watches while you create
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.
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