If your channel or account is terminated, you may not use, or create any other YouTube channels/accounts. When a channel is terminated, the channel owner gets an email explaining the reason for the termination.
Community Guidelines terminations
Reasons channels or accounts can be terminated:
- Repeated violations of the Community Guidelines or Terms of Service across any form of content (like repeatedly posting abusive, hateful, and/or harassing videos or comments)
- A single case of severe abuse (such as predatory behavior, spam, or pornography)
- Channels or accounts dedicated to a policy violation (like hate speech, harassment, or impersonation)
If you believe that your channel/account was mistakenly terminated, you can appeal using this form.
- Don’t submit an appeal request more than once. Multiple requests increase the volume to review and cause delays in our response.
- Fill out the form as completely as possible including your Channel ID. The more information that you give us, the easier it will be to process your request.
Copyright terminations
If your channel was terminated due to copyright infringement claims and you think the claims are incorrect, you may file a counter notification. This process is still available for creators with terminated channels, but the counter notification webform will be inaccessible. You may submit a free-form counter notification.
For more info on the counter-notification process, go to the Copyright Center.
Download data for channel terminations
If your channel is terminated, you can download your data. Learn how to download your Google data.