YouTube bots ruining your mornings at work? If only there was a YouTube automated spam block that could do it for you. Oh wait, there is one.
You really don’t have to start your day, every day, manually deleting spam comments. There are better ways to keep your YouTube channel clean and engaging without losing your sanity. Let me show you how it works.
Protect your YouTube from spam bots
Automatically hide comments from YouTube spam bots under your videos, for all your YouTube channels at once – with an all-in-one social media tool.
Why is it important to remove spam on YouTube?
But first things first. (Plus, I have a really interesting report to show you.)
YouTube has become a powerhouse for businesses and content creators. And it’s not just a platform for posting content – it’s also a key space for customer engagement, community building, and even customer service.
A few months ago, NapoleonCat asked Norstat to interview UK consumers about the way they use social media to contact brands. Turns out, many think of social media as their primary channel of communication with brands, making it essential to think of social media channels as regular customer service channels.
And YouTube is among the platforms they use to do it.
Interestingly, along with Facebook, YouTube is the most frequently used social media platform before making a purchase (though consumers use social media across the entire buying journey.)
People look for things like information about the product, including demos and unboxing videos to inform their buying decisions.
What’s also important from a brand perspective is that consumers who use social media to contact brands in general are also more likely to buy using social media. And that’s especially true for TikTok and YouTube users – a whopping three-thirds do it at least occasionally.
You’ll find more data about how UK consumers use social media across their buying journey in the latest report from NapoleonCat and Norstat, which you can download here.
All this data also makes it really clear that you need to pay attention to your social media channels and social media customer service. And that includes protecting your conversations in the comments from YouTube spam bots.
And to do that at scale, setting up an automated spam filter for YouTube is essential. All those people checking out your brand on YouTube (and elsewhere) will also see all the spam, which is the silent engagement killer, creating noise in the comment section and sometimes even discouraging people from engaging.
A YouTube automated spam block will remove it before your audience even sees it, keeping your content clean and your engagement rising.
What are spam accounts on YouTube?
Just like on other social media platforms, YouTube bots are programmed algorithms that exist to:
- Sell you something
- Scam users with misleading links
- Copy other people’s content or impersonate creators
- Spread misinformation or troll your audience.
Fake engagement from spam accounts can take many forms, including mass-liking videos, leaving irrelevant comments, or sending spammy messages, often with links or images.
While YouTube does have built-in spam detection and lets you moderate comments on the platform, a lot of bot-generated comments still slip through, leaving you or your moderation team to clean up the mess manually.
And nobody likes doing that. Nor spending a day’s worth of work fighting YouTube spam bots instead of engaging in important conversations with actual customers and followers.
How do I stop YouTube spam bots?
Spam bots are automated, meaning they work faster than any human moderator ever could.
If you’re trying to delete spam manually, you’re already at a disadvantage. And if you manage multiple YouTube accounts for your clients, or have other social media accounts with lots of engagement to take care of, too, the task becomes almost impossible.
And definitely not worth the time put in, that could be spent in a much more productive way and more beneficial for the brand.
(That’s not to say that removing spam comments is not beneficial. It’s necessary – but it’s also the kind of task that never ends and often prevents teams from doing more creative ones.)
Instead of wasting that valuable time, you can fight automated spam with an automated spam block. Sounds fair, right?
Using a tool like NapoleonCat’s Auto-moderation, you can instantly remove or hide spam comments on your YouTube videos without as much as lifting a finger. Well, you need to lift it initially to set up your Auto-moderation rules, but it’s really straightforward from there and won’t take up much of your time – about 2 minutes 😉
And when you do it, you and your team will be able to focus on engaging with real customers and growing your community.
So, here’s how to stop bots on YouTube from cluttering your comment section.
How to set up Auto-moderation for YouTube in NapoleonCat
To set up your YouTube automated spam block, create an Auto-moderation rule in NapoleonCat. Depending on the criteria you use to set it up, it will perform an action in response to a trigger – for example, a comment with a link or a specific keyword that’s typical of spam bots.
You can actually use a ready-made template to do that – you’ll find it in NapoleonCat along with templates for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn.
When you scroll down the list of templates, you’ll see a template for automatically hiding comments on YouTube based on offensive keywords that you can customize to add the most common spam words and phrases you come across on your YouTube profile.
But let’s take a look at how to create a rule from scratch (you can customize your template following the same steps.)
- First, connect your YouTube channel(s) to NapoleonCat. You can connect multiple accounts, along with other social media accounts like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. You can try it completely for 14 days here.
- Go to the Auto-moderation tab in the left menu and click on the “Create new rule” button above the templates.
- Name your rule so you can easily manage multiple rules at once (you can have multiple rules running at the same time doing different things, or the same things for different types of content.) Then select YouTube as your social media channel and the YouTube account(s) (yes, you can choose multiple channels in one go) the rule should apply to.
- Choose the type of comments the rule should apply to.
- And then choose if the rule should work for text comments or comments that contain links. If you select comments with links in the rule, and don’t specify any other triggers later on, all comments with links will automatically be hidden from view under your YouTube videos.
- You can also further finetune the rule by adding triggers. Adding common spam keywords here will let you eliminate all comments that include them. (The template already includes preset spam terms, but you can customize it.) You can also add sentiment (which is automatically marked by AI) and user tags.
Fun fact: If you completely skip the step of adding triggers and go straight to the automatic reaction, the Auto-moderation rule will work for all comments/comments with links.
- In the next section, you’ll set the social media actions that will take place when the rule gets triggered. Set the action to “Hide” or “Delete” so spam comments disappear automatically and instantly.
With spam bots, it’s probably a better idea to just go ahead and delete the bunch from your comments section. If you select to hide them, you will still be able to see them in the comments section. And if they’re clearly spam, there probably is no point.
- Choose whether you want to receive email notifications when the rule is triggered. (But remember that if the volume of the spam bot comments is large, you’ll also get a ton of email notifications as the rule does its job.)
- You can also set up a schedule for the rule. For spam bot comments, I recommend to leave it running 24/7, though, to relieve your moderation team from the task.
- And then enable the rule and enjoy your YouTube automated spam block. (Well, enjoy might not be the best word here, but you know what I mean. 😅)
This clearly won’t stop bots from posting the comments, but at least their comments will never make it to your audience, saving your team time and effort.
We also made this short and sweet video tutorial so you can see how easy it is to set up Auto-moderation for YouTube:
Protect your YouTube from spam bots
Automatically hide comments from YouTube spam bots under your videos, for all your YouTube channels at once – with an all-in-one social media tool.
How to block bots on YouTube
If you want to take it a step further, you can also manually report and block spam accounts on YouTube. Here’s how:
- Click on the comment you want to report.
- Select the three-dot menu next to the comment.
- Choose “Report” and select the appropriate reason.
- You can also hide the user from your channel, preventing them from commenting again. (Unfortunately, new spam bots are bound to pop up sooner or later, but that’s not something you can prevent.)
While this is a good option for persistent offenders, the process is manual and can still be time-consuming. That’s why an automated solution is the best way to handle large volumes of spam without taking your team away from more significant tasks like actual relationship building.
Don’t let spam bots ruin your YouTube engagement
Spam on YouTube is nothing more than digital noise: cluttering your comment section, lowering engagement quality, and making moderation a nightmare for your team.
But with the right tools, you don’t have to deal with it manually. Auto-moderation solutions like NapoleonCat let you clean up your YouTube videos and ads automatically, freeing you up to focus on what really matters: building a loyal audience and delivering great content.
And if you want to give it a try, NapoleonCat offers a 14-day free trial, so you can see it in action. (I’m pretty sure you won’t want to stop using after you’ve seen the results.)
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