So I've got a few videos on monetization and I get a lot of questions and quite a few of them are repeats. So I thought I'd put together the most frequent questions and answer them all together in one video. So in no particular order, first question. Why doesn't YouTube just trust me to monetize my own content? Not long ago they did trust users, but YouTube got sued by Viacom. Since Google has technology to detect copyright content and the ability to track how trustful a video uploader is, they settled with Viacom and promised to be less trusting in order to not get sued again. Since YouTubers clearly did not care about the copyright content laws by and large, we lost that trusting privilege. If YouTube allows me to monetize copyright content, am I safe? No. You actually are part of the problem and making the metric worse for everybody else. Also, you're now open for a lawsuit directly from the copyright holder. Eventually that holder will register their content and you'll get a strike at the very least or banned at the very worst. What do I do if I can't find the license for the content I want to use? Don't use it. If you can't receive permission from an owner, you don't have any rights to that content. Imagine you find a car that you want to take for a test drive, but you can't seem to find the owner of that car to ask if you can take their vehicle on a road trip. Would it be okay if you just took the car for a road trip anyway? If you get arrested for granted that. Oh, do you think the defense of I would have asked the owner if I could find them would work for you in a court of law? No. Why doesn't YouTube trust me? They will. If you build up that trust. If you can provide the required information for your videos, your trust metric will reflect it. Over time, fewer videos will be marked under review. How is the trust metric calculated? YouTube will not divulge that data. However, you can bet it's based on a number of videos you post and have proven content ownership. This is also combined with the number of views that you have and the number of copyright complaints that you have. Remember that the money YouTube would pay a lawyer to defend your unverified content is a lot more than they would make from advertising on your 20 videos that have less than 100,000 views. For those of you that would say it's not worth the effort, YouTube is saying the same thing about you. Where can I find creative commons music? No, just google it, but my two sources are Kevin Cloud and Flambas. They both have easy to find and reference licensing on their websites. Most of their music is already marked as creative commons in the YouTube database and you won't get flagged for it to be under review. My video of me just talking is marked under review. Why? Well, believe it or not, it is similar to other videos that do have copyright. My favorite way to avoid this problem is to add a low volume background song, usually around 2% volume. That causes the audio to be unique enough to not trigger any review flags. How long will it take for my channel to get popular enough to gain a decent trust level? Well, obviously every channel is different. I personally started six different channels with different topics. My favorite channel barely gets any views or subscribers. However, this channel I took over a year and a half of mixed video content to get over 100,000 views and over 100 subscribers. Now I have a steady 3,000 plus combined video views a day on this channel alone. I encourage everyone to share your experiences, both good and bad in the comments of this video. Please don't forget to like and subscribe and share this video. Thanks, and have fun out there.