More than 60 hashtags
YouTube may show the video to fewer people.
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What triggers it
Description or title with more than 60 hashtags.
What YouTube says
“If a video or playlist has more than 60 hashtags, we'll ignore each hashtag on that content. Over-tagging may result in the removal of your video from your uploads or from search.”
We last checked this against YouTube's page on .
How to fix it
Keep a few relevant hashtags; only the first three show above the title anyway.
Good to know
Below that there is no stated penalty, but only up to three hashtags show by the title.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in the caption and the hashtags. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: not for this rule
- Speech: not for this rule
- On-screen text: not for this rule
- Caption: looked at for this rule
- Hashtags: looked at for this rule
The free caption check below looks for wording linked to this rule in a caption and hashtags.
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Related YouTube rules
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