videoclaim_rawdata, red_label, ADJ: YouTube CMS monthly revenue files

When network accountants and rights holders first receive YouTube's reports they ask: “How many reports does YouTube send each month?”, “What do red_label and videoclaim mean?” and “Why are there two adjustment files?”. YouTube Help explains each report on its own, not how they fit together. This guide explains that from Injaz Digital's monthly close for more than 1M videos it manages every month.

How many files does YouTube send each month?

According to the YouTube reports Injaz Digital has received up to October 2026, closing a month takes ten files: seven YouTube reports, two US tax files and the network's own channel list. The reports arrive compressed (gz or zip) with names in a fixed pattern: network name, then month, then report type.

The red_label name survives from YouTube Red, which YouTube announced on 17 May 2018 was becoming YouTube Premium, so the file keeps the old name while Help calls it the Premium subscription reports. Some accounts receive ad revenue as two files instead of videoclaim: video_raw for owned content and claim_raw for claims.

When do the reports arrive, and how long do they stay?

Financial reports usually arrive between the 10th and 14th of each month and the payment summary after the 17th, and they stay available for only 60 days before being deleted, according to Content Manager Help. An adjustments report is only published in a month that has adjustments.

So anyone who does not archive each month's files outside YouTube loses them after two months, and with them the ability to check any past statement. That is why Injaz Digital keeps every month's files as they arrived, and goes back to them whenever a channel or rights holder asks.

Which files matter most?

The most important files are the ads file and the Premium file, which carry most of the money, then adjustments and tax because they change the net:

• Base: videoclaim_rawdata (ads) and red_label_rawdata_video (Premium).
• Required: one ads adjustment report, the Premium adjustments and the two US tax files.
• Small: paid features and Audio Tier. Paid features carry no Asset ID, so they cannot be attributed to an artist through the asset.
• On its own: the Shorts summary, because it is a total, not a line per video.

Why isn't reading each file on its own enough?

It isn't, because one video appears on many lines and in more than one file. YouTube Help says the Video Raw Data report is keyed by day, country, content type and policy, so the same video repeats for every day and country. According to the YouTube reports Injaz Digital has received up to October 2026, our network's monthly claims file passed two million lines, more than one Excel sheet can hold (1,048,576 rows).

• The same video with the same asset appears in the ads file and in red_label, so the two merge into one line with both revenues; otherwise the line count doubles.
• ADJ_video_raw and ADJ_claim_raw are two forms of the same adjustments; using both counts the money twice.
• Views are not summed from every line: many sit on lines with zero revenue.

These are exactly the rules Injaz Digital's statement applies for every channel: one line per video, channel and asset, with ads, Premium and adjustments each visible in its place.

How do you combine the files into one correct statement?

1. Check every file before any calculation: the right report, for the right month, with the right columns.
2. Normalize the files: video, channel, asset, content type, revenue, views.
3. Merge ads and Premium into one line per video, channel and asset.
4. Add one adjustment report, the Premium adjustments and paid features.
5. Allocate US tax from its two files.
6. Reconcile the totals with the raw files before anything is paid.

These steps take two weeks of manual work every month. Injaz Digital automated them for its own network, so the month now closes in about half an hour, and Injaz AI builds the same system for networks and record labels around how their accountants work. The detailed steps are in the monthly master guide.

Why choose Injaz Digital to manage and protect your channel?

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• Over 4.1 billion views across partner channels, and over a million videos under our management every month.
• We handle claims and disputes for you, and send you clear regular reports.
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