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YouTube loosens profanity rules for monetized videos


YouTube is tweaking its profanity-related rules to allow creators to monetize videos with swearing in them, provided the profanity is contained to the first seven seconds of the video.

Those expectations have changed, and advertisers already have the ability to target content to their desired level of profanity,” he said. He noted that if creators use moderate or strong swear words in the title or thumbnail, their videos might have limited monetization. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web.

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