YouTube Monetization Checker
Paste a video or channel and see whether ads are set to run on it — read from what YouTube declares publicly, not guessed from subscriber counts.
The link is sent to our server, which reads the public YouTube page the way a browser would. A channel check samples its latest uploads. Nothing is stored.
How it works
How to check if a YouTube channel is monetized?
Paste a video or channel link
youtube.com/watch, youtu.be, a Short, a channel URL or just the @handle.
We read the public page
The same page a browser loads — no login, no Studio access, no guessing from subscriber counts.
See whether ads are set to run
A video: its ad breaks. A channel: how many of its latest uploads carry ads.
Read the facts alongside
Views, length, category, subscribers, availability — and a plain-words verdict you can copy.
The result names what was actually seen — ad breaks declared or not, on which uploads — and the verdict says what that does and does not prove. No earnings estimate, no “authenticity score”, nothing invented — those cannot be read from outside YouTube Studio, and a number that looks precise but is not would only mislead.
Where it pays off
When does a monetization check matter?
Before a sponsorship or collab
A monetized channel has cleared the Partner Program bar — a quick sanity check on a pitch.
Buying or valuing a channel
Ads on the recent uploads is the first thing to verify before the numbers in the listing.
Sizing up a competitor
See which channels in your niche are earning from ads and which are running on sponsors alone — then how to see dislikes on a YouTube video, which says how those videos actually land.
Your own channel, from outside
Confirm what viewers actually get: ads on, ads off, or something between the two — and the thumbnail at every size YouTube serves it, the other thing they see from outside.
The signal
What can and cannot be read from outside?
Readable
- Whether ad breaks are declared on a video, and how many
- Which of a channel’s recent uploads carry ads
- Views, length, publish date, category, family-safe flag
- Subscribers and video count as YouTube rounds them
- How many countries a video or channel is available in
Not readable by anyone
- Actual revenue, RPM or CPM
- Watch hours toward the Partner Program threshold
- Strikes, limited-ads (“yellow icon”) status, or reviews
- Whether a channel was accepted but has ads switched off
- Anything about a private or unlisted video
Questions