YouTube Updates Adult Content Policy to Let Videos Showing ‘Sensual Dancing’ or Nudity While Breastfeeding Earn Ad Revenue
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor YouTube has updated its monetization policy for adult content in two areas: Creators are now eligible to receive ad revenue from videos that feature “non-sexually graphic dance, such as twerking,” as well as content related to breastfeeding.
In a notice posted Thursday, the video platform said certain content showcasing “sensual dancing” is now allowable under its advertiser-friendly content guidelines.
Specifically, that includes “non-sexually graphic dancing involving rhythmic body movements, such as twerking or grinding, as well as dance featuring fleeting minimal clothing.” Previously, YouTube considered such content unmonetizable. “We will still restrict monetization on dance videos with deliberate and recurring shots on breast, butt or genitalia, extreme minimal clothing, and sensual moves that mimic sexual acts including caressing a dance partner’s genitalia in a dance,” Conor Kavanagh, YouTube’s monetization policy lead, said in a video Thursday about the policy changes.
Relating to breastfeeding videos, such content can now earn ad revenue “where a child is present, even with visible areola.” Previously, such content was only monetizable if no areola was visible.
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