{"id":960,"date":"2020-01-08T01:13:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T19:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2021-10-22T18:47:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T13:17:47","slug":"why-every-youtuber-must-categorise-videos-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/why-every-youtuber-must-categorise-videos-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Every YouTuber Must Categorise Videos Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In compliance with the Children\u2019s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), YouTube has just officially announced that all creators must categorise their videos as \u201cmade for kids\u201d or \u201cnot made for kids\u201d before publishing a video. Starting today, 8th January 2020, YouTube will stop showing personalised ads, comments, stories, live chats and the notification bell among other features, to videos that are categorised as \u201cmade for kids\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Features impacted by COPPA: Made for Kids content\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0CzTAeLNRbg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These new updates will help protect children\u2019s privacy on YouTube and address concerns raised by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).\u00a0\u00a0If any of your previous videos were made for children, you must go back to YouTube studio and <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/9527654?ref_topic=9257782\">categorise the video appropriately<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FTC &amp; COPPA for YouTube Videos.   How to Safely tell if my video is MADE FOR KIDS ? #Coppa\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/102UAIj0QBc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if you have never made videos for children, you are required to categorise your previous videos as \u201cnot made for kids\u201d to ensure that you are not inhibited from using all of YouTube\u2019s features. Do note that categorising your video incorrectly could result in serious legal complications and penalties against your YouTube channel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"COPPA and YouTube: Answering Your Top Questions\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KdIlQ9kq4F4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you need help with categorising your videos, check out our previous blog post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/19\/how-to-handle-coppa-the-right-way\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How To Handle COPPA The Right Way<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where we show you how to categorise individual videos as well as categorise all your videos in bulk, in a step by step process. Our post also breaks down the COPPA terms and conditions and helps you determine what types of videos in specific must be categorised as \u201cmade for kids\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Change Audience Settings to Comply with COPPA\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xx0x7CkUn0w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YouTube uses its machine learning system to identify content that is potentially targeted towards children. You don&#8217;t want YouTube&#8217;s bots flagging videos that aren&#8217;t categorised correctly so if you haven\u2019t categorised your videos yet, this is the perfect time to get on the job. Make sure you head over to your YouTube studio right now and make the required changes pronto.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In compliance with the Children\u2019s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), YouTube has just officially announced that all creators must categorise their videos as \u201cmade for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[625,626,628,615,627],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-categorise-videos","tag-childrens-video","tag-complying-with-coppa","tag-coppa","tag-flagging"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flintzy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}