YouTube Advertiser-Friendly Script Checker
Read your script against YouTube’s published categories before you record it.
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Overview
About this tool
Checks a script, transcript or description for the vocabulary behind each of YouTube’s advertiser-friendly content categories, weighting the title and the opening thirty seconds hardest — and saying plainly what a text check cannot see.
Instructions
How to use it
Paste what will be said — a script, or a transcript of a video you have already published — and add the title if you have one. Each of YouTube’s published categories is scored separately.
What this is, exactly
YouTube’s classifier watches the video: the audio, the frames, the thumbnail, the title and the context around every word. This reads text, and text alone. It cannot tell an anti-drug documentary from a drug advertisement, and neither can any other checker claiming to. What text can do is find the terms that put a video into a category in the first place, and say which category and where.
Why position is weighted
The guidelines single out the opening of a video, and the opening is the cheapest part of a script to rewrite. A word at 0:04 and the same word at 14:20 are not the same risk. Terms in the title are weighted hardest of all, because the title is read on every surface the video appears on.
Two categories are deliberately not word-matched
Hateful content and controversial issues are decided by meaning rather than vocabulary. A trigger-word list for either would flag every news channel on the platform while missing the videos that actually demonetize, so they appear as prompts to review by hand instead.
Questions
Frequently asked
Will a clean score guarantee green monetization?
No. This reads text; YouTube watches the video. A clean score means nothing in your wording matches the vocabulary behind the published categories, which is a useful thing to know and not a promise.
It flagged a word I need. What now?
Keep it. Context is the whole game, and a documentary and a glorification use the same words. If the term is central to your subject, leave it in, self-certify honestly, and expect the review.
Does swearing really cost money?
Strong profanity in the first several seconds, or repeated throughout, is one of the most common causes of limited ads — which is exactly why the opening is weighted double here.
Where do the categories come from?
They are YouTube’s own, from its advertiser-friendly content guidelines. The vocabulary under each is ours, and it is not exhaustive.
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