Russell Brand’s YouTube Channel Has Been Demonitized. Here’s What Happened

YouTube has suspended advertising on comedian and actor Russell Brand’s YouTube channel, who faces numerous charges of sexual assaults.

Brand has firmly denied all claims of unlawful way of behaving and said his relationships were consensual.

“If a creator’s off-platform behaviour harms our users, employees or ecosystem, we take action,” a YouTube spokesperson said.

Russell Brand who recently performed at a comedy set on Saturday September 16, 2023, at the Troubabour Wembley Park theater in north-west London is facing claims about his sexual way of behaving at the level of his popularity. But he has denied all the charges.

Despite the denial, YouTube has announced that, it had suspended monetization on the channel of the actor and comedian.

This prevents playing advertisements alongside his videos, which usually generate money for the content creator in proportion to their view count.

The actor, who has totally left the traditional media to become an internet commentator now has 6.61 million followers on his primary YouTube channel.

All channels owned or operated by Russel Brand have all been suspended from the YouTube Partner Program following serious charges against the creator. His other more modest channels include: Football is Nice, Awakening With Russell and Stay Free With Russell Brand.

Brand has unequivocally denied all allegations of wrongdoing and said that every one of his relationships with the women during the time of supposed assault were consensual.

YouTube said the demonetization was due to violation of its “Creator Responsibility policy.”

“If a creator’s off-platform behaviour harms our users, employees or ecosystem, we take action,” the YouTube spokesperson said.

The online video platform said the action was “rare” but consistent with previous applications of the policy, including the suspension of adverts from the channels of influencers David Dobrik and James Charles.

Russell has 3.8 million subscribers on Instagram, 11.2 million followers on X — formerly known as Twitter — and 1.4 million followers on Rumble.

A joint investigation by the U.K’s Channel 4 and the Sunday Times paper, released in print and in a television documentary over the weekend, contained the accounts of four women who allege misconduct by the actor.

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One said Brand assaulted her in his Los Angeles home. Another blamed him for emotional abuse and controlling way of behaving during a relationship when she was 16 and he was in his 30s. Two additional ladies asserted rape on two separate occassions.

Brand was secretly given the charges by Channel 4 and Sunday Times investigations for input ahead of publication. In a video, Russell Brand posted before they were released by the news network, he said,

“The relationships that I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent, and I’m bing transparent about it now.”

Meanwhile, Russell Brand is yet to comment on the issue.

London’s Metropolitan Police said Monday it was aware of the allegations, and that it had on Sunday received a “report of a sexual assault, which was alleged to have taken place in Soho in central London in 2003.”

“We first spoke with the Sunday Times on Saturday 16 September and have since made further approaches to the Sunday Times and Channel 4 to ensure that anyone who believes they have been the victim of a sexual offence is aware of how to report this to the police,” a Metropolitan Police spokesperson said.

In the mean time, promotors of Russell Brand’s “Bipolarisation” Tour has said they were postponing all his remaining shows.