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A YouTube "shadowban" usually means one of two things, and they're worth separating. The channel-level version is your videos quietly disappearing from search results, Browse recommendations, and the Shorts feed, so views collapse to whatever your subscribers provide. The comment version is different: your comments post normally on your screen but get spam-filtered into invisibility for everyone else, sometimes for months before you notice.
Our checker takes your channel URL or @handle, reads the public data, and compares your recent upload performance against what a channel your size normally does. You get a shadowban risk rating and an engagement score on screen, plus a more detailed breakdown by email. No Google login, no channel permissions, nothing connected to your account.
To be clear about limits: YouTube doesn't expose its internal flags, so no outside tool can read them directly. What we read is the visible effect on your channel's numbers, which for a suspected shadowban is the thing you actually want measured. Pair it with your own YouTube Studio traffic-source data and you get a solid picture.
Paste your channel URL or type your @handle into the box above, plus the email address where you want the full report. No Google login, no channel access.
We read your channel's public stats and recent upload performance, then compare the numbers against what a channel your size normally gets. Suppressed channels leave a recognizable pattern.
A few seconds later you'll see your shadowban risk and engagement score on screen, with the detailed report in your inbox. Free, no downloads, re-check whenever you like.
YouTube suppression compounds: the fewer impressions your uploads get, the less watch-time data they generate, and the harder the climb back. A creator who spots the problem in week one and fixes the flagged video is in a very different place than one who uploads into a dead channel for two months.
The manual route is searching your exact video titles from an incognito window, digging through Studio traffic sources, and asking non-subscribers whether they can find you. All worth doing, none of it quick. This gives you the same directional answer in a few seconds from one form.
Low views on YouTube have many boring explanations: weak thumbnails, poor retention, a niche that cooled off. Checking your status first tells you which problem to solve. If the channel is clean, the answer is in your packaging and content, not in a guidelines cleanup and an upload pause.
The checker reads publicly visible channel data only. It never asks for your Google login, never touches YouTube Studio, and YouTube has no way of knowing a check ran. Use it once or use it weekly; nothing about your channel changes.
No single symptom proves a YouTube shadowban, but the combination is distinctive, and your own Studio analytics can confirm most of these. If several sound familiar, run the checker above.
Open YouTube Studio and check impressions, not just views. If YouTube stopped showing your thumbnails in Browse and Search, impressions crater first and views follow. That's the difference between "people aren't clicking" and "people aren't being shown".
Search your exact video title from an incognito window. If a video with your exact title and a decent view count doesn't surface at all, while older uploads do, search suppression is the likely reason.
Log out and find a comment you left recently. If it's gone from the logged-out view but visible when you log back in, the spam filter is eating your comments. This is the most common YouTube shadowban of all, and it can run for months unnoticed.
In Studio, check where your Shorts views come from. Healthy Shorts get nearly everything from the Shorts feed; if that source flatlines and the only views left are from subscribers and your channel page, the feed has stopped picking you up.
New subscribers come from people discovering you through search, Browse, and Shorts. When those pipelines close, growth doesn't slow, it stops. Zero new subscribers for weeks while posting on schedule means discovery is blocked somewhere.
Studio's traffic-source report tells the story: if "Browse features" and "Suggested videos" used to carry most of your views and both collapsed on the same date, YouTube pulled you out of recommendations around that day.
YouTube recoveries are slower than on other platforms, but they follow a clear sequence. Everything starts in YouTube Studio, because that's where YouTube tells you what it's unhappy about.
Check for strikes, warnings, and yellow icons on individual videos. Remove or edit anything flagged, appeal what you think was flagged wrongly, and fix misleading titles or tags on old uploads; stale clickbait metadata is a quiet, common offender.
Hold uploads for a week or two and disconnect any third-party tools doing automated commenting, sub4sub, or engagement swaps. If your comments were the thing being ghosted, stop posting links in comments entirely; links are the fastest route into the spam filter.
Come back with original videos, accurate titles, and no borderline content. Expect 2-4 weeks before recommendations warm back up, and watch impressions in Studio rather than views; impressions recovering is the first sign the suppression has lifted.
How long does a YouTube shadowban last? Longer than most platforms: typically two weeks to three months. Comment-filter problems can clear in days, while community guideline strikes expire after 90 days, and recommendation suppression usually thaws gradually rather than switching back on overnight.
The questions we get most often about YouTube shadowbans, answered without the fluff.
