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I'd bet this behavior is their algorithm "working as intended".

Aka, advertisers saying they don't want to waste ad spend on worthless programming videos. So they get demonetized for the first few days to reduce the impact of any ad spend on the times that would be most likely to get views, then turn it on so the drip of ad spend can treat the videos like problem children.

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I'm more inclined to think that the algorithms are just a bit naive at this point. Surely some advertisers out there do want to target that market.

The notice on my videos is: Limited or no ads due to content identified as not suitable for most advertisers[1]. Your video remains fully playable and is eligible to earn subscription revenue from YouTube Red.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en

Sure, just curious that the videos would be monetized after the first few days. From what I've heard the first few days of a video basically makes/breaks a lot of videos as far as monetization goes.

My guess is at this early stage of deployment, videos flagged by the algorithm to be demonetized (or a sample thereof) are automatically put into some manual review queue, for training and validation, which takes a few days to process through the volume.

Keep your eye on their 10Q statements next quarter. If it is what you say, it should turn up in the financials.

Udemy does a lot of advertising.

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