How streaming platform reacts on our “epical inspiration corporation houses” track names?
Infuriatingly, as @JLJMusic suggested, it does. You get a 60-day window to withdraw your music which begins 120 days before the end of your 3-year period. If you miss it, you’re locked in for another 3 years, which I find fkin’ outrageous! It’s one of the main reasons that I left their service as soon as I could. It seems that they don’t want to put in the hard work, but they really don’t want you going to a competitor.
Terms of Use — Identifyy - It’s paragraph 6.3.1
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Man, that’s unfortunate. Thanks for letting us know!
Aww, for fck’s sake!
This is such an abusive clause. I’m sure there should be a legal case there. Well, if they don’t want to let me go, they’ll have to suffer me.
Thanks for he heads up, mate!
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I did not earn any income from this video. 804,000 views, zero earnings. Does anyone know the reason?
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Well, of course only Identifyy know the reason, so you will have to ask them for the true answer. 
But here are some possibilities:
• They cleared the claim. You still see it because Identifyy choose to display it. They might be using tracking mode even on cleared videos.
• The video was uploaded in September. Have you checked so you didn’t get paid for the video in the September/October reports? 800,000 views should get you around $50-200 for a YouTube Short.
YouTube Shorts normally only get views during a very short time, and then they go to near zero. Almost no short videos get significant views over more than one month (usually days or maybe weeks). It is likely that most views happened in either September or October.
• Possibility 3:
They only pay out for YouTube Shorts certain months (I’m only guessing here, don’t know how Identifyy do things).
YouTube Shorts revenue is calculated differently from regular videos. There is a pool of money that goes to music creators that isn’t directly linked to ads viewed before or after any particular short video.
In my AdRev account, YouTube Shorts revenue only shows up under YouTube Premium earnings. Not sure how it’s divided up in Identifyy. Do you have something like that?
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• The video was uploaded in September. Have you checked so you didn’t get paid for the video in the September/October reports? 800,000 views should get you around $50-200 for a YouTube Short.
September- 612,270 views $0
October- 3 views $0
November 4 views $0
• They cleared the claim. You still see it because Identifyy choose to display it. They might be using tracking mode even on cleared videos.
How do I do what you said? I have no information.
The Youtube short report was last announced in July. The September and October reports were not announced.
I’m afraid only Identifyy can answer that. You will have to ask them if the claim was cleared. I can only see that it’s monetized, but not whether it’s by the channel or by your music.
Maybe that’s your answer? Since this is a YouTube Short video, it could show up in a later YouTube Shorts report?
From AdRev, I get YouTube Shorts earnings every month, but maybe Identifyy do things differently?
But again, only Identifyy can truly give you the correct answer.
…by the way.
I forgot possible reason 4:
That video only has 1 comment and 16 likes. Very strange.
So possible reason 4 would be that most of the views are FAKE.
Normally, a video with 800k views would have thousands of likes and hundreds of comments.
This video has the comments and likes of a video with 1,000 views or so.
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This possibility emerged. I contacted Haawk.
Review Result:After reviewing this particular video, it appears that a large portion of the views originated from advertisements driving viewership to this content. By YouTube’s standards, these views are not monetizable and therefore the payout on this content will be affected.
Thank you for your interest.
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This possibility emerged. I contacted Haawk.
Review Result:After reviewing this particular video, it appears that a large portion of the views originated from advertisements driving viewership to this content. By YouTube’s standards, these views are not monetizable and therefore the payout on this content will be affected.
Thank you for your interest.
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Thanks for the update!
So, almost reason 4 then. Or maybe 4.5 ;).
Real views, but paid for. I would think it’s quite pointless to pay for YouTube Shorts, since the algorithm wouldn’t pass them on to others (likely) anyway… Apparently it didn’t yield meaningful results.
16 likes, when it should have had 16,000 likes.
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December report has been announced.
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Good increase in claimed videos in my case. I can see that my strategy may works in the next coming months. I hope so !
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December is surprisingly very weak for me…
The 1st and 2nd quarter is very good, but the third and 4th quarter is very bad.
Moreover, in December, my music was selected for the free file of the month.