Free channel check: see if Aegis fits your channel before you apply

Before you apply to Aegis, two questions matter: can your content be protected with Content ID at all, and is anyone likely to reupload it? Until now you had to apply and wait for a review to find out the first, and the second was guesswork.

From today, the free channel check answers both in under a minute. You don't need an account and you don't sign in.

How it works

Paste your channel's @handle, its URL or its channel ID (the one that starts with UC), and press Check my channel. A Cloudflare Turnstile check makes sure a person is asking rather than a script. Usually you won't notice it.

The check reads your channel's public YouTube data through spam.h.ki, another Freedom! service. It takes 2 to 5 seconds.

What you see

Your public figures. Subscribers (or Hidden, if you hide the count), public videos, views on your newest videos, up to 200 of them, and how many videos you upload a month.

Videos most likely to be copied. Reuploaders go after what's already popular, so the check lists the three most-viewed of your newest videos. It doesn't search YouTube for copies. Content ID finds those once your videos are registered with Aegis.

How often creators your size get reuploaded. The check shows figures from Aegis's own records for accepted creators with a similar number of subscribers: how many had at least one reupload claimed in their first 90 days, and, where there's enough data, how many channels reuploaded their content in the first year. Run the check to see the figures for your size. Most creators, at every size, had no reupload claimed in their first 90 days. We'd rather you know that before you apply.

We refresh these figures monthly. We never show one creator's figures, and we don't show a group of fewer than 10 creators. The check doesn't estimate earnings. What reuploads earn depends on how often your content is copied and how the copies are claimed, so any figure we gave you would be a guess.

Whether Aegis is a fit. The check asks the same three questions that start sign-up: what you want to protect, how you hold the rights, and whether someone else already manages the content with Content ID. If an answer points to content Content ID can't claim, such as compilations, gameplay or concert recordings, the page tells you which answer and why. Our post on checking whether your content qualifies explains each case.

Applying from the check

If it looks like a fit, Apply with this channel opens the usual Apply dialog. After you sign in, sign-up already has your channel and your three answers, so you don't answer twice. You can change any answer before you send the application. You still connect your channel through the Google account that owns it, as before.

If your answers raise a flag, you can still choose Apply anyway. The check doesn't decide anything. A reviewer reads every application.

What we don't keep

Aegis doesn't save the channel you check, and your answers stay in your browser unless you apply. Our site statistics count that a check ran and whether the answers fit, not which channel it was or what you answered. spam.h.ki keeps the public data it read in memory for up to 24 hours, so a second check of the same channel is quick, and doesn't write it to a database. Our privacy policy and spam.h.ki's privacy policy have the details.

Check your channel. It's free and takes a minute.