What does the termination cost you?

What does the revenue loss calculator do?

It shows what the channel was earning – per day, per month, since the termination and over twelve months – from five numbers you enter. It does not predict future income and does not guess what YouTube will pay out. The point is a sober baseline: what a week of waiting costs, what to tell sponsors, how much time and money a recovery is worth, and the figure a lawyer will ask for first if a legal route exists in your country.

The result also shows how many days of the channel’s income the Appeal Kit (€87) and the Reinstatement Playbook (€445) represent. That is a cost comparison, not a promise: only YouTube or a court can restore a channel.

Which formula does it use?

Four lines of arithmetic, all visible in the result:

RPM is revenue per 1,000 views after YouTube’s share, so the ad line already reflects what reached your AdSense account. Sponsorships and other income (memberships, affiliate links, merch tied to the channel) are entered as monthly totals. Everything is rounded to whole dollars.

Behind the arithmetic sit a few facts worth knowing. YouTube’s termination page states that Partner Program participants are no longer entitled to earn revenue after a termination and that YouTube may withhold unpaid earnings and refund advertisers; its monetization policies mention payment delays of up to 90 days. An AdSense account disabled for invalid traffic is put on a 30-day hold while a possible final payment is calculated, and AdSense pays out from USD 100. Revenue on accounts YouTube treats as circumvention is reclaimed. Our AdSense payout guide walks through what you can still check.

Sources: YouTube Help 2802168, 1311392, 10285842 and 14340193; Google AdSense Help 1709871; the April 2023 policy update on account circumvention – as of October 2026.

Worked example

A channel with 100,000 monthly views at an RPM of $4 earned $400 from ads. Add a $500 monthly sponsorship and no other income: $900 a month. Divided by 30.4 that is about $29.61 a day. Seven days after the termination, the loss so far is about $207; over twelve months it would be $10,800. The result rounds these to $30, $207 and $10,800.

The same arithmetic for a mid-sized channel – 2 million views, $6 RPM, $4,000 in sponsorships – gives $16,000 a month, $526 a day and $3,684 in the first week alone. At that level a single wasted appeal is expensive, and the question of whether to involve a lawyer becomes concrete: the average US attorney billed $349 an hour in 2025, according to Clio – a useful comparison, even though US courts have consistently dismissed creators’ lawsuits over terminations. Our honest overview of suing YouTube and the income crisis plan pick up from here.

What the tool cannot do

• It cannot forecast. Channels grow, decline and have seasons; the twelve-month figure is a flat projection.
• It cannot tell you what YouTube will pay out. Withheld earnings, refunds to advertisers and payment holds are YouTube’s decisions.
• It is not a damages calculation. Where a legal route exists, courts assess losses by their own rules – and YouTube’s US Terms of Service cap its liability at the greater of what it paid you in the twelve months before the claim and USD 500.
• It cannot value your audience, brand deals that were in negotiation or the time you spent. Those belong in your own records.
• It does not store anything. Your numbers stay in your browser.

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