Loads a real video in an actual browser and watches for real ad-network requests — the same signal extensions like Social Blade's use, live and on-demand.
Paste a video link below. We load it in a real headless browser and watch for real requests to known ad-serving domains — the same kind of signal a browser extension observes. It's a genuine, observed result, not a guess, but still an inference: ad-serving depends on region, consent state, and ad inventory at that exact moment. You'll always get a confidence label plus the real evidence, never a bare "monetized" claim with nothing behind it.
This second check looks up a channel's real, public subscriber count against YouTube's actual 1,000-subscriber Partner Program requirement. It's an eligibility check, not an "is this channel monetized" detector — ad status isn't public per-channel data, so we don't guess at it here; use the Ad Presence Check above for a real, video-level signal instead.
YouTube does not publish whether a specific channel currently has ads enabled, so no tool can honestly detect that. What is public is a channel’s subscriber count, which is one half of the real YouTube Partner Program threshold.
It pulls a channel’s real, public subscriber count and compares it against YouTube’s published 1,000-subscriber Partner Program requirement. It cannot see whether ads are actually running on a channel, because that status is never made public.
Use the subscriber check as one half of eligibility. Confirm the other half — 4,000 public watch hours in 12 months, or 10M Shorts views in 90 days — from your own YouTube Studio analytics, or estimate it with the Watch Time Calculator.
Public subscriber data may help your research, but watch hours, Shorts views, account standing, and actual earnings are private channel data. Verify those inside YouTube Studio for your own channel.
Yes, completely free, no sign-up, no limit.
Whether ads are running on a channel is decided by a request your browser sends to Google's ad servers after the page loads — it's never embedded in the page you can view or scrape. We tested this directly and confirmed there's no public "monetized: yes/no" signal, so we don't fake one.
1,000 subscribers, plus either 4,000 public watch hours in the past 12 months or 10 million Shorts views in the past 90 days. This tool checks the subscriber half in real time; check the watch-hours or Shorts-views half in your own YouTube Studio, or estimate it with our Watch Time Calculator.
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