Spam indicator
Mass-produced uploads on a new channel
What it checks
Whether a young channel has uploaded more videos than a person could make by hand.
The exact rule
- It applies to channels under 90 days old. Age runs from the day the channel was created to when the checker last read it from YouTube.
- It fires (100%) when the channel has more than 3 public videos per day of age. A channel under 7 days old counts as 7 days old, so it needs more than 21 videos to fire.
- Otherwise it reads 0%.
- It is N/A for channels 90 days old or older, channels with no public videos, channels under 7 days old with 21 videos or fewer, and YouTube's automatic "… - Topic" music channels.
Why it can point to spam
Few people can make more than three videos a day, every day, from the day a channel opens. When spam.h.ki's team looked at the young channels above the line, nearly all were AI music or relaxation loops, AI Shorts, lottery-result feeds, gambling promotion or reuploads.
When it fires on a legitimate channel
A creator who moves an existing library to a new channel can upload hundreds of videos in the first weeks. So can a clips channel for a streamer, a news outlet, or a brand publishing product Shorts.
How to change it
The rule reads only the channel's age and its public video count, and it stops applying at 90 days. If you run the channel and are moving an archive over, spreading the uploads out keeps the count under the line: in YouTube Studio, set a video's Visibility to Schedule to publish it on a later date.
Separately from this check, YouTube's monetization policies say content should not be mass-produced, generic or repetitive. Pacing uploads changes this indicator; it doesn't change how YouTube judges the videos themselves.