Use the Manual Claiming Tool

When you search for videos that match your assets, we’ll try to match your search terms to video titles, descriptions, tags, and other metadata.

To search for public YouTube videos that match your assets using the Manual Claiming Tool:

1. Sign in to Studio Content Manager .
2. From the left menu, select Manual claiming.
3. In the filter bar, enter keywords, video IDs, or select a filter.
   • Use the minus symbol "-" to exclude keywords from your search.
   • You can also search by @username or channel ID to find videos from a particular uploader.
   • You can select from these filters:
     • Allowlisted (whether the video is/isn’t on your allowlist )
     • Channel ID
     • Claim status (whether it is/isn’t claim by you or others)
     • Claimable (whether you can claim a video or not)
     • Livestream (whether the video is/isn’t a livestream)
     • Publish date
     • Reviewed (whether the claim has been reviewed)
     • Video length (<4 minutes, 4–20 minutes, or >20 minutes)

   • Once you’ve selected your filter, click APPLYto filter the search results.

4. Click Sort byin the top-right to sort the results based on Relevance, Published date, or Total views.
   Note: At the bottom of the page, you can click the number next to Rows per pageto change it from 30 (default) to 10, 50, or 100.
5. For videos that have an active claim, the claims show at the right. You can click a row to expand it and get more info.
   • Click the play buttonin the video player to view the video.
     • Note: You must watch the video to confirm whether it includes content that you own.
   • Click VIEW CLAIMED VIDEOto view the video and get more details on the claims.
   • On the right, next to “Show more:”, click From channelto find other videos from that channel or Related videosto find similar videos based on the video’s title.

To claim a video using the Manual Claiming Tool:

1. On the Manual claimingpage, click a video’s row to expand it and get more info about the video.
2. Click SELECT ASSET. A pop-up window will open.
3. From the tabs at the top, choose Select assetto claim with an existing asset
   • You can also choose Create assetto make a new one. Learn how to create an asset using the Manual Claiming Tool .
4. Select an asset from the list  SELECT.
5. Enter the required timestamps under Start timeand End timefor where your content appears in the video.
   • Under the video player, you can click SET START TIMEand SET END TIMEto automatically populate the start time and end time.
   • Check that you have the right segment by clicking the play buttonnext to End time.
   • If your content appears in more than one part of the video, click ADD ADDITIONAL SEGMENT.
     • If you want to remove this segment, click Delete segment.
       As with match claims, uploaders can remove the manual timestamps with video editing tools to remove the claim . Because of this, timestamp segments must accurately representwhere your content appears in the video.
6. Click Claim typeand select whether the video matches the Audio, Video, or Audio Visualcontent of your asset.
7. Click Policyand select whether the default option, Match policy of selected asset,applies to the video or choose a different policy from the list of policies.
8. Click CLAIMor, to finish the claim later, click MARK AS REVIEWED.