Is The YouTube Monetization Checker Legit?
Before November 17, 2023, YouTube allowed to easily check for the monetization status of a channel. You just had to check the channel page’s HTML source code, and search for the string “is_monetization_enabled”. If the value is true, the channel is monetized, else it’s not.
Since then, YouTube removed this string in the source code. Today, unless the channel has a “Join” button (which requires to be part of the YouTube Partner Program), there is not way to know for certain if a YouTube channel is monetized or not.
Even inspecting the HTML of a video cannot tell if the channel is monetized. The mere presence of the “yt_ad” data just indicates that YouTube can show ads for that particular video – NOT that the channel owner will get the revenue for said ads display.
That’s why our YouTube monetization checker doesn’t display the monetization status anymore. You can still use it to have an estimate of how much a channel, video or Short as generated.
🚨 Please beware: some other tools might give you a result that looks 100% irrefutable, when most of the time, there’s no way to be certain of a channel’s monetization status. If they don’t explain how they determined the monetization status of a channel, you should take their result with a big grain of salt.
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