The platform rules the VALORAE ventures run on, and when each was last read
Arc, Media and Cast all depend on rules written by YouTube, Google, Meta, Instagram and Whop, and those pages change without notice. On 29 September 2026 one of them had been rewritten with no changelog entry. The register of thirteen rule pages the group quotes, the date each was last read, and how a silent change gets dated and handled.
Short answer
The VALORAE ventures quote thirteen outside rule pages: YouTube's monetisation, Shorts, copyright, branded content, Shorts series, Test and Compare and Shorts creation pages, Google's AI features page, Whop's Content Rewards docs, two Search Console help pages, Meta's business asset access table and Instagram's Reels guide. Each entry carries the date it was last read.
On 29 September 2026 a rule that two VALORAE blogs quote by name turned out to have been rewritten, and the page it lives on said nothing about it.
YouTube's channel monetisation policies no longer have a section called Inauthentic Content. It became Generic or Repetitive Content, and a new section called Unsatisfying or Off-putting Content appeared beside it.
The page's update log still ends at 15 July 2025.
That is the complication this register exists for. The ventures in this group sell work that lives on other companies' platforms, and those companies can move a rule without telling anyone.
So here is every outside rule page the group leans on, what each governs, and the date it was last read.
Entry 1: YouTube channel monetisation policies
Page: support.google.com/youtube/answer/1311392. Read 29 September 2026.
This decides whether a channel can earn in the YouTube Partner Program. It matters to VALORAE Arc, because podcasts ask whether a clips channel can be monetised, and to VALORAE Cast, because editors post campaign clips on their own channels.
Status: changed without a dated notice. Archived copies show the old Inauthentic Content heading on 31 May 2026 and the new headings by 29 July 2026. Reused content, the section that covers footage you did not make, kept its name.
Cast explained the change for clippers in YouTube split its inauthentic content policy in two. Two older posts that use the old name are flagged: Cast's post on demonetisation and Arc's post on monetising a clips channel.
Re-read 2 October 2026. The Reused content section says, in writing, that it "applies even if you have permission from the original creator," and that it is not based on copyright, permission or fair use. Cast quotes that line in YouTube will show re-uploaded clips to fewer people, written after YouTube's 1 October announcement on original Shorts.
Entry 2: YouTube three-minute Shorts
Page: support.google.com/youtube/answer/15424877. Read 29 September 2026.
This covers how Shorts up to three minutes behave, including what happens to a Short with a Content ID claim. From 24 September 2026, new Shorts between one and three minutes long with an active claim are no longer blocked automatically.
Status: unchanged since Cast's post of 28 September 2026 quoted it.
Entry 3: YouTube copyright claims
Page: support.google.com/youtube/answer/6013276. Read 29 September 2026.
This says what a claim can do: block a video, monetise it with ads, or track its viewing. It also says claims are separate from strikes.
Status: unchanged in the parts the group quotes.
Entry 4: Whop Content Rewards
Page: docs.whop.com, Content Rewards. Read 29 September 2026.
This is the documentation for the pay-per-view campaign system: a brand sets a rate per 1,000 views, a budget and a minimum payout, and reviews submissions. It is the machinery behind much of the campaign work editors in Cast see, and Cast's posts on payout timing and on checks before submitting a campaign clip quote it.
Status: re-read; the setup steps summarised above are current.
Entry 5: Search Console platform properties
Page: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/17148418. Read 29 September 2026.
This covers the Search Console property type for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and X accounts, available to everyone since 29 July 2026. It shows Google Search traffic to posts, not views inside the apps. Arc's post on using it for podcast clips quotes it.
Entry 6: Search Console generative AI performance report
Page: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/16984139. Read 29 September 2026.
This defines how impressions in AI Overviews and AI Mode are counted. NovaTechRay, the group's alias agency for generative engine optimisation, quotes it in its post on the report, which reached every site on 31 August 2026.
Entry 7: YouTube branded content policy
Page: support.google.com/youtube/answer/17596007. Read 30 September 2026.
This defines branded content on YouTube, the paid promotion declaration, and YouTube's statement that it may label undisclosed branded content itself. VALORAE Cast quotes it in YouTube's branded content policy and campaign clips, because a clip paid per view can fit the definition.
Status: added to the register on 1 October 2026, from the reading of 30 September.
Entry 8: YouTube shows and Shorts series
Page: support.google.com/youtube/answer/16590581. Read 30 September 2026.
This sets the rules for a Shorts series: Shorts only, portrait or square, up to 180 seconds each, and the whole series shown as one item on the channel page. VALORAE Arc quotes it in YouTube Shorts series for podcast clips.
Status: added to the register on 1 October 2026, from the reading of 30 September.
Entry 9: YouTube Test and Compare
Page: support.google.com/youtube/answer/16391400. Read 30 September 2026.
This covers title and thumbnail testing in YouTube Studio: up to three options, the winner chosen by watch time share, and no Shorts. VALORAE Media quotes it in YouTube's Test and Compare for business channels.
Status: added to the register on 1 October 2026, from the reading of 30 September.
Entry 10: Meta business portfolio asset access
Page: facebook.com/business/help/1242256693745272. Read 1 October 2026, in a browser.
This is Meta's table of what each access level allows on each business asset. Since September 2026 it has a separate Threads profile row with three levels, Content, Ads and Everything. VALORAE Media quotes it in Threads access for your agency.
Status: new. The page renders by script, so it joins Instagram's creator page under the heading below on pages that need a browser to re-read.
Entry 11: Instagram's guide to making Reels
Page: about.instagram.com, How to make Instagram Reels. Posted 28 September 2026. Read 1 October 2026, in a browser.
This is Instagram's own guide to Reels length, captions, covers and Collab. It also says a reel's video cannot be changed after posting, only its caption, cover, tags and location. VALORAE Arc quotes it in how to make podcast clips for Instagram.
Status: new.
Entry 12: YouTube's page on creating Shorts
Page: support.google.com/youtube/answer/10343433. Read 2 October 2026.
This covers recording, uploading and the thumbnail of a Short. It says the thumbnail is a frame chosen from the Short, editable only in the YouTube app and not in Studio, and that text and filter edits on it cannot be stepped back. VALORAE Arc quotes it in how to pick the thumbnail for a podcast clip on YouTube Shorts.
Status: new.
Entry 13: Google's AI features and your website
Page: developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features. Page dated 10 December 2025. Read 2 October 2026.
This is Google's own account of how AI Overviews and AI Mode use a site, and which preview controls limit what they show: nosnippet, data-nosnippet, max-snippet and noindex. NovaTechRay quotes it in the AI Overviews lawsuit post. The page predates the Search Console opt-out Google began testing in June 2026, so it does not mention it.
Status: new.
What counts as a rule page
A page goes on this register when a VALORAE post quotes it as the authority for what a platform allows, pays or measures.
That rules out news coverage, however good. A report in a trade publication can be the source for what happened and when. It is never the source for what the rule says, because it is someone else's reading of the rule.
It also rules out third-party guides. Several of the guides that turned up for the YouTube change gave a month for it and a list of what changed. None linked an archived copy or a changelog, so none of them could be checked.
The test is simple. If the platform changed the page tomorrow, would a VALORAE post become wrong? If yes, the page belongs here, with a date beside it.
Pages the group cannot re-read on demand
Some rule pages are harder to check. Instagram's post on rewarding original creators, on creators.instagram.com, renders by script, and a plain fetch returns no text. Meta's business asset access table in Entry 10 is the same.
Anything quoted from it should carry the date it was last read in a browser, and should not be re-dated until someone reads it again.
That is less convenient. It is also the honest position.
How a silent change gets handled
Four steps, in order.
Read the live page and note the date. Every quote on every VALORAE blog is supposed to carry the date it was read. When one does not, that is the first thing to fix.
Date the change from archives, not rumours. For the YouTube change, the evidence was two Wayback Machine copies, one either side of the rewrite. Third-party guides gave a month. None gave a source, so none was used.
Publish the explanation where the reader is. A clipper reads Cast, so the clipper version went on Cast. The owner of a podcast reads Arc. The group does not publish the same explainer twice.
Flag the older posts by name. The new post names the old one, and the old one gets corrected. The group's correction policy covers how that is marked.
What this register does not promise
It does not promise the group catches every change the day it happens. The YouTube rewrite sat on that page for at least two months before it was noticed here.
It does not replace the platform's own page. If this register and the live page disagree, the live page is right and this one is out of date.
It does not cover every rule the ventures follow. Each platform's full community guidelines, for example, are read when a post needs them, not on a schedule, and they join the register the day a post quotes them.
And it is not legal advice. It is a list of what was read, and when.
The short version
- Thirteen outside pages carry most of what the VALORAE ventures quote.
- The first six were re-read on 29 September 2026; entries 7 to 13 carry the date each was read.
- YouTube's monetisation policies changed without a changelog entry; archives date it between 31 May and 29 July 2026.
- Every quoted rule carries the date it was read.
- Silent changes are dated from archived copies, never from uncited guides.
- The explainer goes on the venture whose reader it affects, and older posts are flagged by name.
- The live platform page always wins.
The rest of the group's ledger is at valoraehq.com.
Frequently asked questions
Which outside rules do the VALORAE ventures depend on most?
YouTube's channel monetisation policies, YouTube's pages on three-minute Shorts and on copyright claims, Whop's Content Rewards documentation, and Google Search Console's help pages for platform properties and for the generative AI performance report, all re-read on 29 September 2026. Since then: YouTube's branded content, Shorts series and Test and Compare pages (read 30 September), Meta's business asset access table and Instagram's Reels guide (read 1 October), YouTube's Shorts creation page and Google's AI features page (read 2 October), and the monetisation policies again on 2 October.
What happens when a platform changes a rule without announcing it?
The change is dated from archived copies of the page, a new post explains what moved and names the older post it supersedes, and the older post is flagged for correction. On 29 September 2026 that happened with YouTube's monetisation policies.
Why does every VALORAE post give the date a rule was read?
Because the platforms do not always log their changes. A rule quoted without a date could be months out of date, and the reader has no way to tell.
Is this register legal advice?
No. It is a list of the pages the group reads and the date it read them. The platform's live page always wins over any summary, including ours.
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