YouTube Expands Gambling Policy to Include NFTs, Gaming Skins Starting November 17

• YouTube expands gambling restrictions to cover video game skins and NFTs.
• Policy takes effect Nov 17, 2025, for content directing viewers to gambling platforms.
• Platform clarifies that educational blockchain content and gameplay videos remain permitted.

YouTube has announced policy changes that initially caused concern across the Web3 gaming and cryptocurrency creator community. The platform’s revised gambling guidelines, effective November 17, 2025, expand restrictions to cover digital goods with real-world monetary value.

The updated Community Guidelines now prohibit content that directs viewers to online gambling sites or applications involving video game skins, cosmetics, NFTs, cryptocurrency tokens, and in-game assets exchangeable for real money. Videos promoting or linking to gambling platforms using these digital assets will face content removal or age restr…

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