I have a few YouTube channels, including one which is growing quite nicely at a very steady - albeit slow - pace.

I sometimes invest some cash in it with promotions, and that was going well. Until it didn't.

A few days ago I uploaded a video which was flagged as promoting alcohol, probably because I mentioned ‘Heineken’ in the video, which means my promotion (basically paying to have the video appear as 'sponsored' on other people's feed) is 'active' but actually not running.

That's silly, but fair enough.

I thought it would only affect the video but it’s apparently affecting the whole channel.

So I deleted the video, because I wasn't really sure about it in the first place, and now I’m trying to run promotions for other videos that have nothing to do with alcohol but I still get "Promotion: Active (Limited)” alert on all those.

What to do?

I guess maybe the whole thing will resolve itself as soon as the system realised I deleted that video. If not, I'm gonna chat to YouTube on Monday and see what they say.

But it's ultimately their call.

On my end, there's zero I can do unless they say they're okay removing this limit or whatever.

Once again, we're all at the mercy of centralisation.