Solutions
We file six core violation types through YouTube's official reporting and copyright channels. Every case is screened for a genuine Community Guidelines or copyright breach first — we never report a legitimate channel.
We report channels running scams or posing as someone they're not, mapped to YouTube's spam, deceptive-practices and impersonation policies.
When you own the work, we prepare and file copyright takedowns against channels re-uploading your videos through YouTube's official copyright process.
We document sustained targeting and threats in videos or comments and report them under YouTube's harassment and cyberbullying policy.
We report inauthentic activity and deceptive uploads that breach YouTube's spam, deceptive-practices and fake-engagement policies.
We report harmful or clearly illegal videos; severe cases are escalated to the proper authorities rather than treated as a takedown alone.
We report channels using your name, avatar, logo or content to pass themselves off as you, under YouTube's impersonation policy.
Detailed, YouTube-specific walkthroughs for each violation type.
The two honest routes to a takedown — report versus copyright — plus whether private, unlisted and music-claimed videos can be removed, why the number of reports never decides it, and how to watch, or avoid, a video that is already gone.
Read the guide →Recover a hijacked channel, report a defamatory video the way that actually works, remove an AI deepfake of you, and file a copyright notice — plus the official route for reporting without an account, harassment, underage, offensive videos and ads.
Read the guide →Counterfeit goes to a webform, misinformation to the in-video flag, and every other violation has one correct official route — with honest answers on anonymity, false-reporting risk and how many reports actually matter.
Read the guide →How to report a reupload of your video through the copyright webform and Copyright Match Tool, report a comment, and route fake views, AI clones, doxxing, playlists, ban evasion and a mod's abuse of power — plus why reporting anything more than once never helps.
Read the guide →Report a scam ad on desktop or mobile, report the scammer or channel behind it, see what happens after you flag — and when to escalate to a YouTube takedown, a legal removal request or a cease-and-desist letter.
Read the guide →The exact flag flow for a video, Short, comment and live chat, a reason-to-route table, and when copyright, privacy or defamation needs a separate official form — plus whether reporting is anonymous and what happens after you flag it.
Read the guide →Terminated, deleted, suspended or removed — what each YouTube channel status actually means, why channels get terminated (spam, copyright, severe violations), whether a channel can come back, and how to report a rule-breaker the right way.
Read the guide →How to report a rule-breaking channel or video, send a copyright strike, delete your own content — and why no number of reports ever terminates a channel that breaks no rule.
Read the guide →What a takedown really is versus a report or a strike, the copyright/DMCA, trademark, privacy and legal routes, counter-notifications, and what a legitimate takedown service actually does.
Read the guide →Match what a channel actually did — doxxing, impersonation, a stolen video, harassment — to the one official YouTube route that removes it, including the privacy and legal webforms most guides skip.
Read the guide →Set your @handle in YouTube Studio, why YouTube won't release an inactive username on request, and the official impersonation, trademark and copyright routes when someone takes your name.
Read the guide →The honest guide to YouTube reinstatement: appeal a termination in Studio, file a copyright counter-notification, unblock a viewer you hid, and weigh your real odds.
Read the guide →Why a mass report bot or tool can't terminate a channel, how YouTube's Community Guidelines and copyright strike systems really work, and how to report a rule-breaking channel the right way.
Read the guide →Send the channel URL and a short description. If it's a genuine Community Guidelines or copyright breach, we'll map the official reporting path with you.