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YouTubers hit with ‘one of your payments accounts was canceled’ Adsense emails—but they shouldn’t panic

It's not what you think.

YouTubers this morning have woken up to a small fright from Google after being informed that their Google Adsense accounts, the accounts that actively give YouTubers income from their videos, have been canceled without warning.

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The email is short and just states that their account number was recently canceled and any balance that was greater than $10 will still be paid out. This has led to content creators fretting that their careers were over, or that YouTube was pulling the plug on any money they were making.

YouTubers and content creators alike shouldn’t worry though about the mystery email. While it sounds like your monetization has been taken away, this isn’t the case.

“A payments account was canceled” Google Adsense concerns

If you go into your Google Adsense account, which is where most of the information regarding payment goes, you’ll notice your original Adsense account has been removed. But a new one specific to YouTube has been created in its place.

This seems to have been done without much warning to creators, who flooded message boards, Reddit, and other places in fits of concern for their channels and futures. After all the original email says nothing about a new account being created, only that their AdSense account, which they rely on, was deleted without warning with no mention of anything else.

The new YouTube account, thankfully, has all the old settings of your previous one and you won’t need to do anything else to keep getting paid. You won’t need to create any more tax forms or re-enter your payment details and should keep getting paid just like in previous months, just in this new YouTube-centric account.

When it comes down to it, Google pretty much just trolled the entire industry this morning. So if you come to this article concerned, don’t panic. You are still monetized and can breathe a sigh of relief.


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Assigning Editor. In 2015, Adam graduated from the University of Aberystwyth with a bachelor's in Media and Communications. Working in the industry for over ten years. If it has anything to do with Nintendo and Pokémon chances are you will see me talking about it, covering, and likely not sleeping while playing it.