Is my YouTube Channels shadow banned?

Hi BHW
I am creating multiple youtube channels using VPN in a real phone and using proxies (proxy6.com) on my laptop and used them to make short videos to get traffic to my affiliate link.
I try to post many short videos some of them i make from scratch with capcut or canva and others come from reposts of tiktok videos (without the watermark) but the problem i'm having is that all my videos zero view do not know where the problem
If an expert on youtube gives me advice on that

You should first grow one or two channels and then grow more.

alexdoui said:

Hi BHW
I am creating multiple youtube channels using VPN in a real phone and using proxies (proxy6.com) on my laptop and used them to make short videos to get traffic to my affiliate link.
I try to post many short videos some of them i make from scratch with capcut or canva and others come from reposts of tiktok videos (without the watermark) but the problem i'm having is that all my videos zero view do not know where the problem
If an expert on youtube gives me advice on that

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New channels take time to pick up activity on the algorithm. No way to tell if you are shadowbanned or not. Try making another channel and growing it before you post shorts.

Ashk881 said:

New channels take time to pick up activity on the algorithm. No way to tell if you are shadowbanned or not. Try making another channel and growing it before you post shorts.

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how can i grow channel in first time before starte publishing short, did you mean start by uploading long videos?

i stopped reading after he said used a vpn to make a channel

proxygo said:

i stopped reading after he said used a vpn to make a channel

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Why? Is it against their policy?

could be that you are shadow ban, but I do not know why you are using a VPN to create the accounts? as far as I know youtube doesn't have restrictions or limitations in the ammount of accounts you can create and there are content creators I follow that have 3 or 4 accounts and they are well stablished with a decent ammount of followers and views, or are you trying to focus on USA viewers? continue uploading and wait to see if the ammount of views change or stay the same give it one or two weeks.

Maybe that is part of their privacy. But to be honest a new channel would have to take some time to be successful just work hard on it and read their privacy.

awesomewebsites said:

Why? Is it against their policy?

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Youtube and many other small sites (including all big) can detect VPN

Imagine you have a sign up site where people use VPN to register.

Of course it is against their policy. VPN equals cheating. They want control, and you have to agree.

Use relevant keywords and tags in your video description.

Try making normal videos and not short

alexdoui said:

Hi BHW
I am creating multiple youtube channels using VPN in a real phone and using proxies (proxy6.com) on my laptop and used them to make short videos to get traffic to my affiliate link.
I try to post many short videos some of them i make from scratch with capcut or canva and others come from reposts of tiktok videos (without the watermark) but the problem i'm having is that all my videos zero view do not know where the problem
If an expert on youtube gives me advice on that

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Yes, this is kind of shadowban. Start one or two new channels and see the response there.

Hi BHW,I have been creating multiple YouTube channels using a VPN on my phone and proxies from proxy6.com on my laptop. I use these channels to make short videos to drive traffic to my affiliate links. I make some videos from scratch using CapCut or Canva, while others come from reposts of TikTok videos (without the watermark).

Unfortunately, I have been experiencing a problem where all my videos have zero views. I'm not sure what the issue is, and I would greatly appreciate the advice of a YouTube expert.

Thank you.

Ashociry said:

Use relevant keywords and tags in your video description.

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Even that will not help if the channel is shadowban. The cause of this ban can be different but they are not going to remove it. Op has to create a new channel.

paisawaisa said:

Even that will not help if the channel is shadowban. The cause of this ban can be different but they are not going to remove it. Op has to create a new channel.

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Shadowbans are not usually permanent, but it could take a long time to get removed.

proxygo said:

i stopped reading after he said used a vpn to make a channel

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Same lol

Many VPNs are blacklisted by social media for obvious reasons of abused IPs. Even paid VPNs.

alexdoui said:

Hi BHW
I am creating multiple youtube channels using VPN in a real phone and using proxies (proxy6.com) on my laptop and used them to make short videos to get traffic to my affiliate link.
I try to post many short videos some of them i make from scratch with capcut or canva and others come from reposts of tiktok videos (without the watermark) but the problem i'm having is that all my videos zero view do not know where the problem
If an expert on youtube gives me advice on that

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Do not create multiple channels on same device. Youtube can detect this . Recently lot of people were spamming by uploading thousands of shorts but they put an end to it.

I doubt it is due to the way you created your accounts/ albeit you should not do it that way in the future.

Shorts are being crushed right now by the yt automation' grifters. (not saying yt automation is a gift, but there is an influx of grifters entering our space right now.)

There is a YT video on Trending rn on how to use GPT & Canva bulk editor to make 300 completed Shorts in 30 minutes. I know people doing this with aged accounts with hundreds or low thousands of followers, and most shorts hit 0-200 views.

While you have used poor opsec to create these accounts, I think your posting habits are more par for the cause here:

1) Where is your affiliate link? Is it in pinned comments? They are on to channels abusing pinned comments to push their sales funnel off-site.
2) How many shorts are you posting a day? Most videos or guides I see that have gone viral use metrics like 10x per day. I have better results with 1-2 per day.
3) How optimized are the videos for the target audience? Are they also all under one cohesive niche per channel?
4) The TikTok videos are likely failing because they can detect that you are just reposting. Sure, reposting TikTok could go viral on youtube. An example would be that I have one account which posted the Kid Rock Budlight response video and got 600k views. But they can detect when you are the 3,000th account to repost that clip/short. You're probably too late if you aren't reposting them within minutes of them going live on Tiktok. And even then, the creator may post them there already.
5) How verbatim are you following any viral video's instructions? The more you follow trending guides, the more identical your output looks to the hundreds of thousands of others doing this same thing. I am not sayingit'ss a waste of time. It can be very successful in my experience. But if you have followed a guide verbatim, you should make a few tweaks and changes in your strategy so your shorts stand out from the hundreds of thousands of others.


I don't think it's likely your accounts are ruined. I am just facing competition. Because you're trying to promote very saturated affiliate products, Most of my original content performs way better than the content I tailor for the popular affiliate products I sell. Affiliate products are not as easy to drive organic traffic to as they used to be. I remember in 2017 how we could post any video with any title and hit 10k-500k views. It's just not the case anymore. Everything has to be optimized, and even then, you; 'll be competing ith thousands of other videos for that watch time.

seomaster5 said:

Do not create multiple channels on same device. Youtube can detect this . Recently lot of people were spamming by uploading thousands of shorts but they put an end to it.

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Where do you see they have put a stop to it? It is still alive and abused unless they have done so in the last 4-5 days.

I hope they do something to combat it, maybe by restricting algorithm love for new accounts. Most of this influx of newcomers to YT don't have the intuition to buy aged accounts. Giving us an excellent advantage. In my experience, once you hit the algorithm for shorts, the following shorts will be given similar, more extensive reaches before throttling. This pattern expands the 'baseline' for average views with each successful/trending short.

If you have any sourcing on them restricting these spammers, other than the pinned comment change they made last month, please let me know!! There is currently a viral video creeping up on a million views that shows people how to make 300 youtube shorts in 30 minutes, lol. It's only getting worse, from what I'm seeing. I would love some good news that shows the opposite.