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YouTube Help Invalid Traffic Bug

majorsayre

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At the end of May I got a small notification in youtube studio stating that "Ads may be limited due to Invalid Traffic". Then the notification disappeared, About a week later my revenue dropped about 75% channel wide, with my RPM getting smaller and smaller by the day. I have done nothing to attract invalid traffic- I don't (and never have) used any "boosting" services or bought views. I never click on my own ads (I'm even afraid to watch my own videos), NONE of my friends or family click on my ads and most don't even watch my videos at all. I have never asked my subscribers to binge watch my videos nor ever asked any of them to click on any ads- ever. In short- I don't do any of the "bad" things that go against the Youtube guidelines. I have a crafting channel with a demographic that is 99% female and ALL age 45 to 65 and above- this is hardly the hacker/bot buying bunch!!! I've had MANY super frustrating conversations with creator support chat, plus even more frustrating conversations with youtube support via email. They will give me no actual actionable things I can do to make this stop- except to say " you should just keep making content people want to watch.".....(!?!?!)- and "no, we can't tell you which videos are affected or what you should do about them because that information is proprietary". So the message is: It's your problem and there is no way for you to solve it- but we're going to stop paying you because of it. I watch my revenue plummet as my views slowly and steadily rise (views rise slowly- NO spikes!) Also worth mentioning is that according to my analytics: 91% of all my traffic comes directly from youtube - with about 6% external- with the majority of that external coming from google.com. I disabled embedding channel wide as another creator suggested - but that was 2 weeks ago and nothing changed. I know this is affecting 100's of other creators-if not more, currently. If anyone had dealt with this before or is familiar with any solutions- I will try anything, I'm pretty desperate at this point!!! Thanks for reading my LONG thread!