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title: 'Hidden YouTube Settings That Will Kill Your Channel''s Growth! (Fix These Now)'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=xKwmHZxbILc'
video_id: 'xKwmHZxbILc'
date: 2026-08-10
duration_sec: 634
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# Hidden YouTube Settings That Will Kill Your Channel's Growth! (Fix These Now)

> Source: [Hidden YouTube Settings That Will Kill Your Channel's Growth! (Fix These Now)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xKwmHZxbILc)

## Summary

The speaker identifies common YouTube settings mistakes that can hurt channel growth and offers actionable fixes. He argues that optimizing video length, correctly setting country of residence, and choosing the right category are crucial for reaching your target audience. Additionally, he warns about the risks of not disclosing AI use and recommends enabling features like auto-dubbing to expand your reach.

### Key Points

- **Optimize Video Length** [00:16] — Use YouTube Analytics and ChatGPT to determine the optimal video length. Screenshot top videos on a topic, upload to ChatGPT, and get the ideal length range.
- **Correct Country of Residence** [01:36] — Ensure your country of residence is accurate. An incorrect setting can cause shadow bans and block monetization approval.
- **Set Correct Categories** [02:41] — Manually set the correct category (e.g., Science & Technology) for each video. Leave subcategories alone. Use ChatGPT for guidance if unsure.
- **Focus on Views Per Hour** [04:04] — Use tools like VidIQ to filter videos by views per hour. This helps identify topics that are trending and find better keywords.
- **Disclose AI Use** [06:06] — Disclose AI use in videos to avoid shadowbans and demonetization. Turn on the AI indicator when needed.
- **Enable Auto-Dubbing** [07:33] — Enable YouTube's automatic dubbing to show your content in multiple languages, increasing your potential audience and views.
- **Enable Other Growth Settings** [08:41] — Turn on several other settings: allow remixing, embedding, notify subscribers, automatic chapters, and disallow third-party training. These can add 1.5 million extra views.

## Transcript

are quietly destroying the views that you're getting on YouTube. But don't seven things and boom, it'll help increase your views almost instantly. sure that you're making, and this is a silent thing that's destroying most
your content either too short or too long. But here's how you can figure out Okay, so in order to actually figure out the best length for you to be uploading simple. First, you're going to come over to your analytics right here from
on trends. You're going to type in whatever you are going to post about. video about YouTube settings. We're going to type in YouTube settings. actually has very high interest from your audience. And then what you're
people are actually watching. If we click on show all, we could come under videos right here. And then what you're going to want to do is actually take a screenshot of this. You're then going to come over to chatbt. We are going to
upload this screenshot right here. And we're going to say I am making a long we're going to say I am making a long form YouTube video on this topic. Want form YouTube video on this topic. Want my video to be on the longer end so that
my video to be on the longer end so that I have a high AVD. What length should I make it based on this screenshot? Now, what this is going to do is this is right here and it is literally going to tell you exactly what length you should
sweet spot for this topic right here will be 18 to 25 minutes. It explains exactly why right here. And then this also goes through exactly how you could actually increase the length of it. And this is what you should be doing every
two is you need to make sure that you have the correct country of residence set up on YouTube. And I audit so many channels and they all have this wrong. that's destroying your views because YouTube might be showing your content to
actually find your country of residence going to want to come over to your settings right here. And then, if we come over here into channel, we're going to see country of residence. This is
where you need to make sure that this is going to be accurate because if it's not be happening. Either one, YouTube is going to think that you were lying to manipulate YouTube, in which case they're going to put a shadow ban on
the wrong country of residence and it's not accurate, which is why you're not actually reaching the audience that you are trying to reach or your intended just come over here and you could change this to whatever country is going to be
accurate for your country of residence. In addition to that, if you have this messed up and then you get monetized on YouTube, this could actually ruin your chance of getting approved for monetization. Change number three is you
right category set up on YouTube. Again, this is one of those things that's auto not going in and manually changing it, it's killing your growth. So, category might want to go through and change on all of your content if you've been
into content right here, what you're going to do is you going to scroll basically all the way down, you're going to see this category right here. Let me to see. So, we have autos and vehicles. We have comedy, education,
entertainment, film, and animation. All of this. If you ever get confused on again, you could simply just take a screenshot of this. Come over to Chat GBT. We could actually paste this in here and we could say, I am uploading a
video about I'm going to put the best chat GPT settings. Which category should I choose? And then this will actually analyze the categories and it will tell you exactly which one you should use. We can see science and technology for this
one right here. Shows us what we should actually avoid right here. And then it also goes through what actually matters if you're going to be uploading a video actually change the category. And then as you can see when you actually select
subcategories. I would leave those alone. Only put the main category. The you're making is you need to make sure that you're deciding what content you should be making based on how many views per hour that topic is getting. And this
that I could ever tell you about growing on YouTube. So the way that you're views per hour is by using a tool like Vid IQ. So let's say that we come over here and we type in a video about chatbt settings because this is what we want to
going to be able to do if we have Vid IQ is actually click on these Vid IQ filters right here. And this is going to change how this actually looks right here and what we actually see. So if we come over here and click on load more
videos, then we actually come over here and type in chat GBD settings. What this is actually going to do is this is going to change what kind of content we actually get shown here based on which videos are actually getting views. This
gotten views over a really long period of time. It's going to look at what And as we can see right here, they have a bunch of different presets for find things that are underdogs or find today's top or find trending shorts or
allows you to completely change how be able to see way more stuff. In addition to that, you could download could analyze these however you want outside of YouTube. And this just makes
that, if we actually come over to vidiq.com over here, let's say we type This will actually go through and this will analyze and pull for us whether or not this is increasing or decreasing. So, we could see right here 5200 people
then it reveals a bunch of other keywords that might actually be better. And we could see how the views per hour is actually fluctuating here, which is you to determine whether or not this topic is increasing in interest or
of the most important things if you want to get views on YouTube. You want to the topics and the titles that people actually are watching in increased that YouTube actually shows your content to those people. And the best part about
comment below, you can get started with it today for only $1. This tool is an absolute no-brainer. It helped me gain over 900,000 subscribers on this account, over 90,000 subscribers on this account, and it's my secret weapon for
channels fast. So, what are you waiting for? Go to that pin comment below. Get that you could figure out how many views per hour videos are getting. Setting that you're correctly disclosing whether or not you're using AI in your videos.
might silently be banning your channel. Now, this setting here is now becoming make sure that you're doing this correctly. So, if we come into my latest video that I uploaded right here, we actually click on this and I scroll down
a little bit, we could see that we have AI in use right here. If you use AI to make a person appear, to say or do something they didn't say or do, you footage of a real event or place, you need to turn this on. If you're
that didn't actually occur, I would turn this on. And I would also turn this on if you did something that has something to do with a sound or a visual made or different examples right here. And we can see I put yes on this one because
actually manipulate a bunch of things with AI in this video. And please make sure you disclose this. If you do not disclose this, you will get caught and channel will get shadowbanned. You'll get demonetized. This is happening to so
many small channels right now. In fact, look up AI YouTube and you'll see all the complaints on Reddit. This is how you protect yourself. Setting number six content is getting shown to more than just the people that are intended to
view it. Let me explain. Now, ultimately, what I'm talking about here languages. So, if we come over into languages right here, we could see that YouTube has turned my content into tons of different languages. It's been posted
in Arabic. It's been posted in Dutch, in French, in German, in Hebrew, in Hindi, is increase the views that I get. If we come over here into analytics, this if we're actually going to be able to see this, but we could see that I'm
getting views right here from countries outside of just the ones that speak English. And the reason for that is because I have this dubbing turned on. come over to details right here, this is where we could actually control whether
or not YouTube does this. If we scroll down a little bit right here, we could see if we come down here whether or not YouTube is going to automatically dub our content. We could see that I have it on and I see that we in experimental
whether or not YouTube goes to do it. And if you have this turned on, your content will basically automatically get more views because it'll get shown to more people than just the people that would be eligible to watch it if it was
country of where you're actually located. Then that last thing you need enabling a bunch of other settings that are going to help you get more views. In fact, turning on these settings has helped me gain over 1.5 million extra
views on YouTube that I otherwise would have never gotten. Here's what they are. is if we actually close this out, we scroll all the way down on settings ton of things you want to make sure are enabled. Shorts remixing, allow this on
video and audio. Allow embedding, always allow this. Publish to subscription feed and notify subscribers. If your subscribers are interested in the about, make sure that this is turned on. This right here, just leave it.
Distribution, make sure that's on everywhere. Recording date, put none. Recording location, put none. Video language, put this as English or whatever language you actually uploaded in. And then if we come up here, allow
automatic chapters and keep placements, make sure that's on. Featured placements, make sure that's on. automatic concepts. Make sure that's on. And you also want to come into your account settings right here. And then
you want to come over into channel. You want to come into advanced settings. You want to make sure it's set for kids. Mark that as no. This right here, have this unchecked. This right here, have this unchecked. This right here, have
this unchecked. Allow automatic dubbing. We already went over that in the last one. Come down here. Disable introspace ads. Have that off. Clips. Allow this on. Video quality enhancements, have both of these on. Hype, have this on.
Third party training, have that off. And then that's all you need to know when it you enjoyed this video and you want to learn more about exactly how the YouTube algorithm works right now, because they just updated it to a new AI algorithm, I
this video right here that walks you through exactly how that works and how you could take advantage of it. I'll see you over there.