How to Use demonetize in a Sentence

demonetize

verb
  • Instead, YouTube banned hate speech and demonetized the channel.
    — Alyssa Newcomb, Fortune, 26 June 2019
  • Last August, YouTube rolled out a process for creators to appeal when their videos are demonetized.
    — Louise Matsakis, WIRED, 21 June 2018
  • The company isn't always transparent about why a video is demonetized, which can leave creators left guessing.
    — Kaya Yurieff, CNN, 25 June 2019
  • Conservatives aren't the only ones who feel that YouTube has censored or demonetized their videos.
    — Joe Mullin, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2017
  • You guys were the experts at demonetizing whole sectors of the industry to protect the OS.
    — Gary Wolf, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2005
  • Already sluggish sales have been slowed by a double whammy of recent changes in the tax system and a move to combat tax cheats by demonetizing high-value currency.
    — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Some creators have expressed concern that user biases could cause some of their videos to be unnecessarily flagged or demonetized.
    — Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 19 June 2017
  • This resulted in a wave of videos being demonetized, which angered YouTubers who could no longer attach money-making ads to their videos.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2018
  • That for some reason there was a bug on YouTube where every video with iPhone 10 or the X in the title got demonetized for a couple hours.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 16 Apr. 2018
  • In fact, the project is streaming completely free with all its music videos demonetized on the 25-year-old's personal YouTube channel.
    — Jeff Benjamin, Billboard, 26 Apr. 2018
  • YouTube, which opened a revenue-sharing program more than a decade ago, has long been accused by angry creators of demonetizing videos for arbitrary and inscrutable reasons.
    — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2018
  • When content is taken down, demoted or demonetized, websites should explain exactly which standards have been violated, and how.
    — Chris Cox, WSJ, 23 June 2019
  • YouTube tagged dozens of PragerU videos as restricted and demonetized some of them, which prevented third-party advertising.
    — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The changes came about a couple years back, when, under advertiser pressure, YouTube demonetized controversial videos.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Recall YouTube’s pledges to give advertisers more controls, to hire more human content checkers and its move to demonetize channels that didn’t meet a certain threshold?
    — Lara O’Reilly, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Many creators first voiced their concerns with the company in 2017, arguing that their content was seemingly hidden and demonetized.
    — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Celebrity YouTubers in head-to-toe Gucci quip about being unrightfully demonetized.
    — Wired, 24 Oct. 2019
  • As soon as the policy launched, a journalist who makes documentary films chronicling hate movements had content removed from YouTube, and his channel was demonetized.
    — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Analysts disagreed with Jaitley on the impact of demonetizing 86 percent of India’s cash supply.
    — Nirmala George, The Seattle Times, 1 June 2017
  • When YouTube began its charge to demonetize more videos with sensitive content following its brand safety snafu earlier this year, some high-profile creators were vocal about how their incomes had plummeted as a result.
    — Lara O’Reilly, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
  • In early 2019, for example, the company demonetized anti-vaccination videos by removing ads, and changed its recommendation algorithms to fight other conspiracy theories.
    — Dan Garisto/undark, Popular Science, 9 Mar. 2020

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