When we remove your content for a Community Guidelines violation, you may be issued a strike. Strikes are issued when content on YouTube is flagged for review, either by members of the YouTube community or our smart detection technology, and our review teams decide that it does not follow our Community Guidelines. If your channel gets a strike, you'll get an email, notifications on mobile and desktop, and an alert in your channel settings the next time you sign in to YouTube. Before you start, review the policy related to the strike . We also list examples of content that result in a Community Guidelines strike. For warnings and strikes, you can appeal for 6 months after the warning or strike was issued. For content removals, you have up to 1 year after your content was removed to submit an appeal. This 1 year window applies to all types of content removals including videos, posts, playlists, thumbnails and URLs. Appeal a video removal Sign in to YouTube Studio . On the left Menu, click Content . Go to the video that you want to appeal. Hover over the Notice , and click the provided link. Enter your reason for appealing and click Submit . If it’s a playlist or thumbnail: You’ll receive an email if your playlist or thumbnail was removed for violating our Community Guidelines. If you think that your content doesn't violate the Community Guidelines and was removed in error, use the form provided in the email to appeal. If you've received a Community Guidelines strike for links in your content, make sure you're familiar with our policy and appeals process for links in your content . Appeal a Community Guidelines strike When we remove your content for a Community Guidelines violation, you may be issued a strike. Strikes are issued when content on YouTube is flagged for review, either by members of the YouTube community or our smart detection technology, and our review teams decide that it does not follow our Community Guidelines. If your channel gets a strike, you'll get an email, notifications on mobile and desktop, and an alert in your channel settings the next time you sign in to YouTube. Before you start, review the policy related to the strike . We also list examples of content that result in a Community Guidelines strike. You can appeal for 6 months after the warning or strike was issued.

Appeal a strike Go to your Dashboard in YouTube Studio. Select the Channel violations card. If you've received a Community Guidelines strike for links in your content, make sure you're familiar with our policy and appeals process for links in your content . If it’s a playlist or thumbnail: You’ll receive an email if your playlist or thumbnail was removed for violating our Community Guidelines. If you think that your content doesn't violate the Community Guidelines and was removed in error, use the form provided in the email to appeal. After you submit an appeal You'll get an email from YouTube letting you know the result of your appeal request. One of the following will happen: If we find that your content followed our Community Guidelines, we'll reinstate it and remove the strike from your channel. If you appeal a warning and the appeal is granted, the next offense will be a warning. If we find your content followed our Community Guidelines, but isn’t appropriate for all audiences, we’ll apply an age-restriction. If it’s a video, it won’t be visible to users who are signed out, are under 18 years of age, or have Restricted Mode turned on. If it’s a custom thumbnail, it will be removed. If we find that your content was in violation of our Community Guidelines, the strike will stay and the video will remain down from the site. There's no additional penalty for appeals that are rejected. You may appeal each strike only once. Was this helpful? Need more help? Try these next steps: