Report inappropriate videos, channels, and other content on YouTube

Nosotros rely on YouTube customs members to report, or flag content that they observe inappropriate. Reporting content is anonymous, and so other users tin can't tell who made the report.

When something is reported, information technology's not automatically taken downwards. Reported content is reviewed along the following guidelines:

  • Content that violates our Community Guidelines is removed from YouTube.
  • Content that may non be advisable for younger audiences may be age-restricted.

How to flag content

Report a video

YouTube staff review reported videos 24 hours a 24-hour interval, 7 days a week. A video tin can be reported at any time one time uploaded to YouTube. If our review team has not establish whatever violations, no amount of reporting volition modify that and the video will remain on our site.

  1. Go to the video you'd similar to report.
  2. Tap More at the summit of the video.
  3. Tap Report .
  4. Select the reason for reporting.

Report a channel

To written report a channel, you must do and then on a figurer. Click the Computer tab and follow the instructions nether "Report a channel".

Report a playlist

Y'all can study a playlist if its content, title, clarification or tags violate our Community Guidelines.

  1. Sign in to YouTube.
  2. Go to the playlist page.
  3. Tap More at the top right of the screen.
  4. Select Report Playlist.
  5. Select Submit.

Study a thumbnail

You can study a video thumbnail that yous come across in your feed.

  1. Go to the thumbnail y'all'd similar to report.
  2. Beneath the thumbnail, tap More .
  3. TapReport.
  4. Select the reason for reporting.
  5. TapWritten report.

Report a annotate

The "Report spam or abuse" link allows the customs to report spam comments left on videos they upload or sentry. If enough users marker a annotate as spam, information technology becomes hidden under a "Marked as Spam" link. By clicking the "Show link" you can see the comment once more. The video's uploader tin can "unmark" a annotate as spam.

  1. Become to the annotate you'd like to study.
  2. Tap More than beneath the comment.
  3. Tap Report.
  4. Select the reason for reporting.

Use the "Report spam or abuse" characteristic with farthermost circumspection. If you misuse it, you may exist prohibited from using YouTube.

My comment was marked as spam incorrectly

If you believe a comment y'all made was marked as spam but you don't believe it to exist, you lot can get in impact with the video'due south uploader and ask them to reinstate your comment.

Report a alive chat message

Customs members tin can written report inappropriate messages left on live streams.

  1. Go to the message you'd like to report.
  2. Tap More below the comment.
  3. Tap Report.
  4. Select the reason for reporting.

Report an ad

If you meet an advert that is inappropriate or even violates Google'south ad policies, you can written report information technology.

To report the advert, select Info Information on the ad then Why this ad and thenStudy this ad, or choose to fill out and submit this form. Our squad will then review your ad report and accept action if appropriate.

Reporting ads is merely available on YouTube mobile and desktop.

Report content on YouTube from your Goggle box

You lot can report a video directly from the YouTube TV app.

  1. Select Report on the video player Menu.
  2. A menu will appear to select the reason for reporting the video.
  3. One time yous select the reason, y'all'll see a confirmation message.

Other reporting options

If the reporting procedure does not accurately capture your upshot, nosotros have other reporting mechanisms for y'all to use.

Privacy reporting

Legal reporting

To report a legal event on behalf of yourself or your client:

  1. Get to the sentinel page of the video you'd like to study.
  2. Under the video, click the three dot Menu.
  3. Click Report.
  4. Select "Infringes my rights".
  5. Select the relevant issue. If your event isn't captured, select "Other legal claim".
  6. Make full out the grade and submit.

To expedite our ability to investigate your claim, we encourage you to submit your claim using our webform, rather than by fax or mail service.

Note that abuse of our legal forms may issue in the termination of your YouTube business relationship.

Moment of decease or critical injury footage

We attempt to respect the wishes of families in regards to footage of their loved ones being critically injured. If you've identified content showing a family member during the moment of death/critical injury, and you lot wish to request content removal, utilize our webform.

Requests are carefully reviewed, but keep in heed that we take public interest and newsworthiness into business relationship when figuring out whether content volition be removed or non.

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