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Winkiloo is a creator growth platform for YouTube creators. It brings verified channel management, video tools, campaigns, feedback, creator networking, collaborations, opportunities, A/B tests, AI creator tools, content planning, analytics, weekly reports, referrals and multilingual support into one workspace.

Winkiloo is designed for YouTube channel owners and creator teams at different stages of growth, from new channels learning what works to established creators who want deeper analytics, planning, collaboration and optimization tools.

No. Winkiloo is an independent creator platform and is not operated by, endorsed by or affiliated with YouTube or Google. Some features use Google and YouTube APIs under their applicable terms and policies.

No. Winkiloo does not sell or guarantee YouTube engagement. Discovery and campaign tools provide visibility inside Winkiloo, while viewers independently decide whether they want to open or interact with content on YouTube.

Create an account, verify your email when required, complete your creator profile, connect a YouTube account through Google OAuth, choose the channel you control, import the videos you want to work with, and then explore the tools included in your plan.

You can browse some public Winkiloo pages without a connected channel, but many creator features require an ownership-verified YouTube channel because they depend on channel identity, analytics, creator reputation or verified participation.

Yes. Winkiloo is not limited to large channels. Several tools are specifically useful while a channel is still building its content library, learning from feedback and developing a repeatable publishing process.

Yes, subject to the channel limit of your current plan. You can also connect more than one Google/YouTube account when needed and choose which eligible channels to add.

No. Winkiloo uses read-only YouTube permissions for ownership verification and analytics. AI suggestions, generated thumbnails, content plans and other Winkiloo outputs stay in Winkiloo until you choose what to do with them.

Open Dashboard → Plans & billing. Your current plan, usage limits, Creator Credits, AI allowances and available upgrade options are shown there.

When email activation is enabled, yes. Winkiloo sends a one-time verification link to the address used during registration and activates sign-in after the link is confirmed.

Use the resend option on the verification page and check your spam or junk folder. If messages still do not arrive, contact Winkiloo support so delivery can be investigated.

Select Forgot password on the sign-in page. Winkiloo sends a one-time, expiring password-reset link to the account email address.

Yes. Open Dashboard → Account & security, enter the new address and confirm your current password. Your existing email remains active until the new address is verified.

Yes. Open Dashboard → Account & security, enter your current password and choose a new one. Persistent Remember-me sessions on other devices are invalidated after a password change.

Remember me lets a trusted device stay signed in beyond the normal browser session. Winkiloo stores a secure persistent token rather than storing your password in the browser.

Use Sign out from the Winkiloo interface. Changing your password also invalidates persistent Remember-me sessions on other devices.

Depending on your profile settings and available channel data, a public profile can show your creator name, username, profile image, banner, biography, niche, country, language, verified channel information, public statistics, badges, scores, reviews and collaboration-related information.

Yes. Open Dashboard → My profile to manage the profile information and branding that Winkiloo allows you to edit.

Your username identifies your public creator profile and is also used by the current referral-link format, such as https://winkiloo.com/ref/yourusername.

No. Channel/content language describes the language of your creator content. Winkiloo interface language controls the language used by the website and dashboard. They are intentionally stored separately.

Use the language selector in the public navigation, creator dashboard or admin area. Public pages always use the language represented by their URL: English is unprefixed, while enabled translations use prefixes such as /de, /el or /fr. For signed-in/private areas the interface preference is saved to the account; visitors can also have a language preference cookie.

When browser-language detection is enabled and you have not chosen a language before, Winkiloo can use your browser preference. A manual selection always takes priority afterward.

Yes. Dashboard → My profile → Language & region supports an email language preference, or you can leave it set to follow the interface language.

Yes. Winkiloo supports a separate AI/report language preference. If you do not choose one, AI creator output and weekly reports fall back to the current interface language.

Yes. Your Language & region settings include a timezone preference so supported dates and scheduled information can be presented more appropriately.

Yes. Winkiloo includes a Free plan with plan-specific limits. The live Pricing page and Dashboard → Plans & billing are the source of truth for current allowances and prices.

The standard trial duration can be changed by Winkiloo. The registration flow, Pricing page and Dashboard → Plans & billing show the current trial offer available to your account.

Winkiloo can issue private invitation links with an extended trial, bonus Creator Credits, an expiry date and usage limits. The exact trial length and benefits are defined by the individual invitation and are shown when that invitation is used.

If you have not started a paid subscription, the account continues under the Free plan and its limits. Winkiloo does not delete your channels, videos or profile simply because the trial ends.

The current plan structure includes Free, Creator, Pro and Agency. Prices, limits and enabled allowances are controlled by the live Winkiloo plan configuration.

Different features have different infrastructure and service costs. Channel limits, campaigns, active collaborations, tests, opportunities, calendar capacity, AI actions, thumbnail generation, advanced analytics and weekly-report capacity can therefore vary by plan.

Existing records are generally preserved, but Winkiloo can prevent new additions or new active items until your usage is back within the lower plan limit. The exact behavior depends on the feature.

When billing is enabled, you can open Plans & billing and choose an available paid plan. The checkout method depends on the payment providers configured by Winkiloo.

The current billing architecture includes Stripe and PayPal integration points. The payment methods you actually see depend on which providers are enabled and correctly configured.

Open Dashboard → Plans & billing → Billing history to review Winkiloo billing records and provider references associated with your account.

Yes. Winkiloo includes a subscription cancellation flow. Cancellation stops future renewal according to the applicable billing flow while preserving mandatory consumer rights.

Normally your paid plan remains available through the already-paid billing period unless the checkout terms, provider rules or mandatory law require different treatment.

Paid access can become limited or the subscription status can change according to the payment provider and Winkiloo billing state. Update the payment method or contact support if the status does not resolve.

Yes, when credit packages and billing are enabled. Available packages are shown under Dashboard → Plans & billing → Buy Credits.

Cash refund eligibility depends on whether credits were used, the payment circumstances, provider rules and mandatory consumer law. Check the Refunds / Withdrawal information and contact support for a specific transaction.

Plan-based monthly AI allowances reset according to Winkiloo billing/usage logic. Trial accounts can use separate total-generation caps instead of receiving unrestricted monthly resets.

Text analysis and image generation have different infrastructure costs, so Winkiloo tracks their allowances independently to keep plan usage predictable.

Winkiloo uses Google OAuth. You sign in to Google, approve the requested read-only YouTube permission, and Winkiloo retrieves the channel or channels available to that Google account so you can choose which ones to add.

A public URL proves that the channel exists but not that you own it. OAuth ownership verification prevents users from claiming another creator’s channel and protects profiles, campaigns, reviews and marketplace features.

No. Google handles authentication. Winkiloo receives OAuth tokens and authorized account/channel information, not your Google password.

For ownership verification Winkiloo requires read-only YouTube access. It does not request permission to upload videos, delete videos, comment, subscribe or otherwise modify your channel.

Authorized YouTube Analytics is an optional advanced feature that reads private performance reports from YouTube after you grant the additional read-only Analytics permission.

Yes. A channel can already be ownership-verified with the basic YouTube read-only scope. To unlock private Analytics reports you may need to reconnect and approve the additional YouTube Analytics read-only scope.

Depending on what YouTube returns, Winkiloo can show views, watch time, average view duration, average percentage viewed, subscriber gains/losses, traffic sources, countries, devices, subscription status, demographics and top-video performance.

Authorized Analytics can provide retention-related metrics such as average percentage viewed and other supported retention signals. Availability depends on the channel, report and data YouTube makes available.

The current Authorized Analytics workspace is designed around performance and audience metrics rather than financial/revenue reporting. Winkiloo should not be treated as a replacement for all YouTube Studio revenue reports.

Yes. Authorized YouTube Analytics can report top videos directly from the connected channel, even when those videos are not part of your Winkiloo video library.

YouTube may suppress or omit rows when there is not enough reportable data or when a particular report is unavailable for the selected channel and date range.

Yes. Authorized Analytics responses can be cached for a limited period to reduce API usage and improve performance. A forced refresh is subject to rate limits.

Yes. Winkiloo stores YouTube connections per Google account and lets you choose eligible channels from each connection, subject to your plan’s channel limit.

Winkiloo revokes/removes the stored OAuth connection, channels linked to that connection lose their ownership-verified status, and affected active or scheduled campaign functionality can be paused until verification is restored.

Yes. You can revoke third-party access from your Google Account permissions. After revocation, connected features that require YouTube authorization will stop working until you reconnect.

OAuth access can require reconnection if a token is revoked, expired without a usable refresh token, permissions changed, or an additional Analytics scope is needed. Use the reconnect action in Dashboard → My channels → YouTube connections.

Connect your Google/YouTube account, open the connected account, choose one of the channels returned by YouTube and add it to Winkiloo. The plan channel limit must have available capacity.

YouTube does not provide every field for every channel. If a creator has not configured a value or the API does not return it, Winkiloo allows supported fallback information to be entered manually.

Yes. Use Refresh YouTube data on the channel card to update public metadata and statistics without deleting and re-adding the channel.

Import Videos reads the channel uploads available through YouTube and lets you select which videos should be added to your Winkiloo library. Already imported videos are marked to prevent duplicates.

No. You choose which videos to keep in Winkiloo. This lets you focus feedback, campaigns, AI analysis and testing on the content you actually want to work with.

When available, Winkiloo can retrieve the YouTube video ID, title, thumbnail, duration, category, publication information, language-related metadata and channel ownership information.

Winkiloo includes a video-add flow for eligible channels. Ownership and plan limits still apply, and the YouTube video must belong to a channel you are allowed to manage in Winkiloo.

Yes. Deleting a Winkiloo video removes the Winkiloo record and related platform data such as campaigns/feedback where applicable. It does not delete the original video from YouTube.

Where the campaign engine performs a refund, unused reserved campaign credits are returned according to the current campaign rules before the related Winkiloo records are removed.

The Winkiloo channel, its Winkiloo videos and related platform records can be removed according to the deletion flow. The original YouTube channel is not deleted or modified.

Winkiloo Video Discovery is the public /videos experience where visitors can browse eligible YouTube videos published by verified Winkiloo creators. Results are mixed across creators instead of simply showing all videos from one channel together.

The discovery service combines signals such as language relevance, country relevance where available, creator niche, verified creator feedback quality, freshness, accepted creator connections for signed-in users, creator profile quality and a controlled billing-plan contribution. It then applies creator-diversity rules so one creator does not dominate the first results.

No. The creator plan is only one configurable ranking signal. Relevance, verified feedback quality, freshness, creator relationships and diversity also contribute, so a highly relevant Free-plan video can appear above a paid-plan video.

Each eligible public video receives a stable Winkiloo watch page with a URL such as https://winkiloo.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxxx. The page embeds the YouTube video and adds Winkiloo creator information, feedback scores, public creator feedback, recommendations and sharing tools.

No. The video remains hosted by YouTube and is played through the official YouTube embedded player. Winkiloo provides the surrounding discovery, creator-profile, feedback and recommendation experience.

Yes. Dashboard → My videos lets an eligible creator publish a video to public Winkiloo discovery or hide it while keeping the video record and creator tools in the dashboard.

A hidden video is removed from public discovery, recommendations and video sitemaps. Its watch page stops showing the video publicly and is marked so search engines should not index the unavailable page. Publishing it again can restore the same Winkiloo watch identifier.

Winkiloo preserves the former public watch identifier as a removal record. The old shared URL then returns a removed-video notice instead of being reassigned to another video.

Yes. The Share action shares the Winkiloo watch URL rather than changing the original YouTube URL. Supported browsers can use the device share interface, with copy-link and common sharing options available as fallbacks.

Yes. Signed-in users can save eligible public videos to Dashboard → Saved videos. This is a Winkiloo watch list and does not create or modify a YouTube playlist.

For signed-in users, Not interested records a Winkiloo personalization preference and removes that video from future personalized discovery candidates. It does not send a dislike or other engagement action to YouTube.

Public watch-page feedback is limited to signed-in Winkiloo users who have at least one YouTube channel verified through Google/YouTube OAuth. The video owner cannot review their own video, and each reviewer can submit one feedback record per video.

Eligible public feedback can include ratings for Thumbnail, Title, Hook and Editing plus useful written feedback. Winkiloo also shows aggregate scores and can sort public feedback by helpfulness or recency.

Recommended videos use the public discovery system with extra relevance to the current video, such as similar creator niche and language, while still applying creator diversity and excluding videos that are hidden, unavailable or otherwise ineligible.

Eligible watch pages are designed to be indexable and include a canonical Winkiloo URL and video structured data. Eligible pages can also be included in Winkiloo sitemaps. Hidden, unavailable and removed pages are excluded from normal indexing signals.

Creator Credits are internal Winkiloo platform units used for eligible creator features such as campaign visibility and research rewards. They are not cash, cryptocurrency or YouTube views.

Depending on the live configuration, credits can come from your plan, purchased credit packages, eligible creator feedback, eligible A/B test participation, qualified referrals, invitation bonuses, plan allowances or refunds of unused reserved campaign/test budgets. Credits are never earned for YouTube views, watch duration, likes, comments or subscriptions.

No. Winkiloo never rewards opening YouTube, video views, watch duration, likes, comments or subscriptions. Feedback and testing rewards are for actions completed inside Winkiloo.

You choose one of your eligible videos, set a Creator Credit budget, duration and targeting, and Winkiloo displays the campaign to eligible creators inside the platform according to relevance and pacing rules.

Under the current campaign engine, one billable Winkiloo discovery impression consumes one Creator Credit and the same creator is billed only once per campaign. An outbound YouTube click is tracked separately and does not consume an additional credit.

No. A campaign buys targeted visibility inside Winkiloo. The receiving creator decides independently whether to open the YouTube video and whether to continue watching or interact.

Campaigns can target niche/category, language, country and creator-size ranges. Winkiloo also uses matching and delivery-priority signals when ranking eligible campaigns.

Pacing spreads the reserved campaign budget across the campaign duration instead of allowing the entire budget to be consumed immediately.

The campaign engine supports scheduled campaign status. Availability and allowed duration are controlled by the current campaign settings and plan.

Yes. Active campaigns can be paused and later resumed while the campaign remains eligible to continue.

Yes. Stopping a campaign ends delivery and returns unused reserved Creator Credits according to the campaign engine.

Expired campaigns stop delivering. Unused reserved credits are refunded by the campaign finalization flow where applicable.

Winkiloo tracks internal discovery impressions, outbound YouTube clicks, click-through rate, credits spent/remaining/refunded, pacing and audience-segment information where available.

No. Campaigns are for discovery inside Winkiloo, not coordinated artificial engagement. Users must independently decide whether they want to watch, subscribe, like or comment on YouTube.

It is Winkiloo’s internal creator-research system. You compare your current YouTube packaging with one challenger and eligible verified creators choose which option they would be more likely to click.

Yes. You can run a thumbnail-only test using the current thumbnail as Variant A and a challenger as Variant B.

Yes. A title-only test compares the current title with a challenger title without changing the YouTube video.

Yes. A combined test compares the current packaging against a challenger combination of title and thumbnail.

No. Testing happens inside Winkiloo. The result is research for your decision; Winkiloo does not automatically publish the winning option to YouTube.

Only Winkiloo users with at least one OAuth ownership-verified YouTube channel can submit eligible test votes.

Yes. Tests can optionally target creator niche, language, country and subscriber-size range.

The reward pool pays the configured internal research reward to eligible creator voters. Unused reserved credits are returned when the test completes, expires, is stopped or is deleted according to the test flow.

The reward for an eligible test vote is controlled by the current Winkiloo configuration. The test interface and your Creator Credit activity show the applicable reward when the feature is enabled.

No. Winkiloo hides the result while a creator is voting and randomizes option order per voter to reduce position bias.

A voter can choose a reason such as curiosity, clarity, visual appeal, relevance or professionalism and can optionally leave a short comment.

Alongside overall A/B percentages, Winkiloo can break responses down by niche, language, country and creator-size segment. Optional comments provide qualitative context.

Winkiloo uses the number of votes and the size of the lead to describe a result as an early, directional, good or strong signal. It is not a statistical guarantee of YouTube click-through performance.

Yes. Deleting a test removes the Winkiloo test and managed challenger uploads. Unused reserved credits are returned where applicable, while credits already earned by voters are not taken back.

You can browse creator profiles and filter by relevant characteristics such as niche, language, country and channel size. Winkiloo can also surface Creator Match information when the feature is available.

Creator Match is a Winkiloo relevance score intended to help identify creators who may be a useful networking or collaboration fit. It is not a prediction of YouTube growth, revenue or collaboration success.

Verification strengthens creator identity and is required for several trust-sensitive features. Public profile visibility also depends on account/channel moderation and the current public-site configuration.

One creator sends a connection request. The recipient can accept or reject it. Accepted connections unlock private messaging and collaboration actions.

Connection requests are subject to platform eligibility and server-side rate limits designed to reduce spam and abuse.

Connection-management actions allow the relationship to be changed or removed according to the current network workflow.

Yes. Blocking removes/restricts the relationship and prevents normal network interaction between the two accounts. Unfinished collaboration activity can also be affected.

Yes. Winkiloo includes moderation-report flows for creator, channel, video, feedback, conversation, collaboration, opportunity and other supported targets.

They can be, when the administrator has enabled public score display. Public scores are intended as contextual Winkiloo signals, not guarantees.

Yes. Country and language are core discovery filters, which is especially useful for international or multilingual collaborations.

Private messaging is limited to accepted creator connections. This helps reduce unsolicited mass messaging compared with an open public inbox.

No. Normal private messaging is connection-only, so the creator must accept the connection first.

Yes. Winkiloo supports soft-deleting your own message from the creator interface. Platform records may still be retained where necessary for safety, legal or moderation purposes.

No. Private creator messages are not published on public creator profiles.

Winkiloo does not provide a general browse-all-private-messages interface. A specific conversation can become available for moderation inspection when a participant reports it, subject to the platform moderation workflow.

Supported collaboration types include joint videos, guest appearances, interviews, podcasts, cross-promotions, Shorts, livestreams, content series and an Other category.

The proposal becomes a collaboration workspace where participants can manage the collaboration status, lightweight tasks, due dates and linked published videos.

Yes. Collaboration workspaces support lightweight task tracking, subject to the current platform task limit.

Yes. Participants can link selected Winkiloo/YouTube videos to the collaboration so the workspace records what was published.

Yes. The maximum number of active collaborations can depend on your current plan.

A creator block prevents normal collaboration interaction and can cancel or restrict unfinished collaboration activity according to the current workflow.

It is a structured marketplace where verified creators can post and discover collaboration, guest and creator-service opportunities.

Current types include joint YouTube videos, podcast guests, interview guests, livestream guests, Shorts collaborations, cross-promotion, video editing, thumbnail design, voice-over work and Other opportunities.

Yes. The marketplace uses ownership verification as part of creator identity and posting eligibility.

Yes, when public marketplace listings are enabled and the creator chooses public visibility. Public listings must also pass the normal moderation/eligibility checks.

Yes. The marketplace supports filters such as opportunity type, niche, language, country and preferred creator-size range.

Yes. Signed-in creators can save interesting listings and revisit them from the Saved tab.

Open the listing and submit the requested pitch, contribution and availability information. Application limits and marketplace eligibility rules apply.

Applications can move through states such as pending, shortlisted, accepted, rejected or withdrawn.

Winkiloo can create an accepted creator connection automatically if necessary and turn the accepted application into a collaboration workspace, provided both creators are within their collaboration limits.

Yes, when externally paid service opportunities are enabled. Compensation can be unpaid/collaboration, paid externally, revenue share, value exchange or another disclosed arrangement.

No. The current marketplace model has no platform escrow. Any external payment arrangement is made independently between the creators.

Yes. Owners can close an open opportunity and can reopen eligible closed or expired listings when their plan limit allows it.

Yes. Deleting the listing removes its applications and saves. Collaboration workspaces already created from accepted applications remain available.

Yes. Administrators can hide listings without deleting the underlying history, and reported opportunities can enter the moderation workflow.

Winkiloo lets creators provide structured critique on another creator’s video, including thumbnail, title, hook and editing ratings plus written feedback.

Yes. The feedback flow can open the YouTube video in an embedded viewer and also provides an Open YouTube option.

Yes, when feedback rewards are enabled. The applicable Creator Credit reward is controlled by the current Winkiloo configuration. Anti-abuse and duplicate-review rules apply.

No. The database prevents duplicate feedback from the same reviewer on the same video, and abuse/rate limits prevent reward farming.

Useful feedback should explain what works and what could be improved. Winkiloo requires meaningful written feedback rather than only star scores.

Open Dashboard → Feedback → Received. Aggregate feedback signals can also appear in video analytics and creator intelligence features.

Open Dashboard → Feedback → Given to review your submitted creator feedback history.

No. Creator feedback is stored inside Winkiloo and is not automatically posted as a YouTube comment.

Yes. Feedback can be reported through Winkiloo moderation tools when it violates platform rules.

They are creator-assistance features that use the configured AI provider to analyze or generate suggestions around video titles, thumbnails, hooks, descriptions, content positioning and other supported creator tasks.

No. AI recommendations and generated assets remain in Winkiloo for creator review. Winkiloo does not automatically publish AI titles, descriptions or thumbnails to YouTube.

Depending on the tool, Winkiloo can use relevant video/channel metadata, title, description, category, language, thumbnail, creator-supplied script or hook text, and selected analytics/context required for the requested result.

Yes. Eligible plans can generate recommended 1280×720 thumbnail concepts. The current YouTube thumbnail can optionally be used as visual reference when supported by the tool.

Yes. Generated thumbnail history supports full-size viewing and download. Generated images are not automatically uploaded to YouTube.

Yes. Winkiloo AI tools can analyze or assist with titles, hooks, descriptions and overall content positioning, then keep analysis history for the video.

Yes. AI output can be incomplete, subjective, inaccurate or unsuitable for your audience. Treat it as decision support, not a guarantee of CTR, views, revenue or channel growth.

The feature may be disabled, the OpenAI configuration may be unavailable, your plan may not include the tool, or you may have reached the relevant usage allowance or rate limit.

Yes. Creator-facing AI tools receive the selected Winkiloo language as an output-language instruction where supported.

Some tools keep analysis/history records so you can review earlier results and so creator intelligence can use relevant historical signals where the feature is designed to do so.

AI Content Intelligence turns your channel context, goals and available performance signals into personalized content ideas, planning recommendations and 30-day content plans.

It can use channel/video context, creator feedback, A/B testing history and, when you have authorized the required scope and your plan includes it, selected YouTube Analytics metrics.

Goals can focus on views, subscribers, authority, engagement, consistency or a custom objective. You can optionally set a target value, target date and notes.

Opportunity Score is a Winkiloo planning heuristic attached to content ideas. It combines factors such as audience fit, channel fit, growth potential, freshness and content-gap signals; it is not a prediction of future views.

Yes. The number of ideas in one request is bounded by the current system setting, your plan allowance and your remaining monthly idea quota.

Yes, for plans that include AI plan generation. The generated items are added to the Content Calendar and remain editable by you.

Yes. The current planner supports a requested publishing frequency and turns the result into planned calendar items within the supported limits.

The Content Calendar is Winkiloo’s planning workspace for ideas and videos. It supports month, week and list views plus an unscheduled content pipeline.

Yes. Month/week calendar items support drag-and-drop movement to another date, and individual items can also be edited directly.

Calendar items can move through stages such as idea, research, script, recording, editing, thumbnail, scheduled, published and paused.

Yes. You can create content series and associate calendar items with a recurring editorial theme.

When calendar reminders are enabled, Winkiloo can create internal notifications as planned publishing dates approach.

Yes. The current Content Calendar includes creator-requested AI script generation for eligible plans/configuration. Generated scripts require creator review and are not published automatically.

Yes. Calendar items support production notes/script-related fields so planning notes can remain separate from the AI-generated or edited script content.

Yes. Content ideas and goals can be archived, and archived records can be viewed/restored where the current interface provides that action.

Growth Analytics combines stored public YouTube metric snapshots with Winkiloo campaign, feedback and AI-analysis history to provide creator and per-video growth views.

Growth Analytics combines Winkiloo history and public snapshots. Authorized YouTube Analytics uses private read-only reports directly from your connected YouTube account and can provide deeper metrics such as watch time and audience information.

Yes, after Winkiloo has snapshots from different dates. The first refresh establishes a baseline; later snapshots allow changes to be compared.

Yes. Each Winkiloo video can have an analytics workspace combining public YouTube metrics, campaign history, feedback scores and AI-analysis history.

They are rule/data-driven recommendations based on signals Winkiloo has stored, such as campaign CTR, feedback dimensions, public performance and AI history. They are not guarantees.

A Weekly Growth Report compares the latest seven-day period with the previous seven days for a selected verified channel and summarizes wins, risks, Growth Score movement and suggested next actions.

When your plan includes advanced analytics and the channel has the Analytics permission, the report uses Authorized YouTube Analytics. Otherwise eligible basic reports can use available public metric snapshots.

Yes. Weekly-report preferences let you select channels up to the report-channel limit of your current plan.

Yes. Weekly-report preferences include a report day. The scheduled job runs regularly and generates reports that are due for each creator.

Yes, when global weekly-report email delivery is enabled and you opt in. The email can use your configured email language.

The current weekly-report AI interpretation is tracked separately from normal Creator AI actions and is controlled by the weekly-report plan/configuration.

Depending on available data and thresholds, Winkiloo can flag channel retention drops, videos performing below channel retention, subscriber drops and strong momentum concentration.

It is an informational signal created when one video accounts for a large configured share of recent channel views, suggesting that the video may be driving current momentum.

Yes, subject to the plan and the configured manual report rate limit.

Common reasons include a disconnected/unverified channel, missing Analytics permission for the requested data source, API errors, insufficient snapshots, plan restrictions or temporary service configuration problems.

No. Weekly reports and AI interpretations are analytical aids. They do not guarantee future views, ranking, revenue, subscriber growth or monetization.

Reputation is a 0–100 Winkiloo score focused on trust, useful participation, collaboration reliability, community activity and standing. It is not based on how many subscribers you have.

Growth Score is a 0–100 planning signal that measures your growth foundation, content packaging, audience response, momentum, creator network and consistency using data available to Winkiloo.

No. Paid plans and subscriber count do not directly buy Reputation. Scores use capped contribution categories and diminishing returns.

Signals can include verified channels, helpful feedback, legitimate test participation, creator connections, completed collaborations, profile completeness and broader community activity.

Signals can include channel foundation, content packaging, audience-related metrics, campaign CTR, recent videos, Authorized Analytics where available, creator network activity and publishing consistency.

Winkiloo identifies the area that currently appears most useful to improve, such as audience retention, publishing consistency, content packaging or creator networking.

Scores are cached for a configurable period. You can use the Recalculate action in the creator dashboard when you want a fresh score, subject to the current system behavior.

Current badge types include Verified Creator, Helpful Reviewer, Reliable Collaborator, Testing Contributor, Community Contributor, Growth Momentum, Rising Creator and Top Contributor. Special badges such as Early Creator can also exist.

Yes, when the badge is active/public and public reputation display is enabled.

The badge system supports automatic and manual badge awards. Manual/special awards can be managed by administrators.

Set a public username to receive a referral URL such as https://winkiloo.com/ref/yourusername. When a new creator registers through that link and satisfies the current qualification rules, you can earn Creator Credits.

The referral reward can be changed by Winkiloo. Dashboard → Affiliate & referrals shows the current Creator Credit reward and is the source of truth for the offer available to your account.

No. A registration starts as pending. The referred creator must satisfy the current qualification rules shown by Winkiloo, which can include a verified YouTube channel, adding eligible videos or other anti-abuse requirements.

Open Dashboard → Affiliate & referrals. Your personal referral URL, clicks/registrations and qualification/reward history are shown there.

The registration flow can understand referral information, but the official shareable Winkiloo referral format is /ref/yourusername because it is cleaner and is the format generated by the dashboard.

No. Self-referrals, duplicate accounts, fake registrations and referral farming violate Winkiloo rules and can result in rejected or reversed rewards.

A flagged referral triggered an anti-abuse signal, such as suspicious overlap between the referring and referred registrations. It is held for administrator review instead of being rewarded automatically.

No. The current programme rewards Creator Credits, which are internal Winkiloo platform units and are not cash or withdrawable affiliate earnings.

Yes. Rewards can be withheld or reversed when the underlying referral is fraudulent, duplicated, self-referred, associated with a chargeback or otherwise fails the applicable rules.

Winkiloo can enforce a configurable monthly referral-reward cap as an anti-abuse and cost-control measure. Your dashboard and current programme rules are the source of truth.

Where required by applicable law or the platform where you share it, yes. We recommend clearly explaining that you may receive Creator Credits if someone joins through your link.

A registered creator must have at least one OAuth ownership-verified YouTube channel before submitting a Winkiloo platform review. This ties testimonials to a verified creator identity.

You can submit a 1–5 star rating, optional title, written experience, use-case tags, a recommendation response and an optional MP4/WebM video testimonial. At least written text or a testimonial video is required.

Yes. On supported HTTPS browsers you can grant camera/microphone access, record a short testimonial, preview it, retake it and submit it. You can also upload an MP4 or WebM file.

Yes. Open Dashboard → Review Winkiloo to edit the review and, where supported, replace or remove the testimonial video.

Yes. The creator review flow supports permanent deletion. Public review routing also keeps deletion/tombstone information so removed content is not accidentally republished under the same public record.

No. Public display requires creator consent and administrator moderation/selection. A smaller set can also be marked Featured for use on high-visibility public pages.

A material edit sends the review back through moderation before it can be published again.

Yes. Reviews selected for public display can receive individual crawlable pages with canonical URLs and can be included in the Winkiloo sitemap.

Yes. Platform reviews are supported moderation-report targets and can be reviewed by administrators.

Yes. Winkiloo v2.6 includes a database-driven multilingual system with English as the master/fallback language.

All 24 official EU languages are installed: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Hungarian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Slovak, Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Irish and Maltese.

No. English is available as the master language and other languages can be enabled after their translations have been prepared and reviewed. This avoids exposing unfinished language versions.

Winkiloo safely falls back to the English source text rather than breaking the page.

Translations are stored in the Winkiloo database. Normal page views do not call the AI provider just to translate the interface again.

Yes. Administrators can use the Translation Center to translate interface strings and managed public-page content with AI, then review and approve the result.

Yes. English uses the normal unprefixed URLs, while enabled languages can use locale-prefixed routes such as /de/features, /el/faq or /fr/terms.

Yes. Enabled localized public pages can emit alternate hreflang links plus an English x-default reference to help search engines understand language versions.

No. AI-generated translations of Terms, Privacy, Cookies, Imprint and other legal material are drafts. Legal AI auto-publishing is disabled by default and important translations should be reviewed.

Yes. Creator-facing AI tools and weekly report interpretation are instructed to use the selected interface/report language where supported, avoiding an unnecessary second translation step.

Depending on the features you use, Winkiloo can process account/profile data, connected YouTube information, authorized Analytics data, campaign/credit activity, feedback, messages, collaborations, opportunities, reviews, billing references, AI inputs/results and technical/security logs.

Winkiloo’s privacy framework states that personal data and Google user data are not sold. Data is shared only where required to provide the service, where authorized, or where another lawful basis applies.

Winkiloo stores OAuth tokens only for the authorized connection and encrypts stored token values using the application secret. You can disconnect the connection or revoke access through Google.

Winkiloo uses necessary session/security and preference storage, including language and cookie-consent preferences. Optional analytics/marketing technologies should be enabled only where configured and legally permitted.

Yes. Use Cookie settings in the public-site footer to reopen the preference controls.

Yes. Visitors who are not signed in can use a one-year winkiloo_locale preference cookie. The cookie can remember a preferred interface language for private/interface contexts, but public page language is always determined by the clean URL: / is English, /de is German, /el is Greek, and so on.

Use the privacy contact information published in the Privacy Policy. Winkiloo may need to verify your identity before responding to a data-protection request.

Disconnect the account from your Winkiloo YouTube connections or revoke Winkiloo from your Google Account third-party permissions. Features depending on that authorization will stop working.

Use the public Report illegal content page to identify the specific Winkiloo URL and submit a good-faith notice for administrator review.

Supported moderation targets include creators, channels, videos, feedback, conversations, collaborations, platform reviews and opportunities.

Hidden content is excluded from relevant public profiles, discovery, campaign delivery or other public/eligible surfaces until its moderation status changes.

A suspended account cannot use the normal creator platform until it is reinstated. Administrative audit/moderation records can be retained according to platform and legal requirements.

Yes. Server-side limits protect actions such as feedback, connection requests, campaigns, reports, channel/video additions, test voting, opportunity activity and messaging from abuse or accidental overload.

No internet service can promise absolute security. Winkiloo uses measures such as HTTPS, password hashing, encrypted OAuth secrets, CSRF protection, permissions, rate limits, upload restrictions, logging and backups to reduce risk.

The public-site footer links to Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Cookies Policy and other enabled legal/information pages such as Imprint, Acceptable Use, Community Guidelines and Refunds.

Yes. Enabled language versions use Winkiloo’s localized public-page system and fall back to English when an approved translation is unavailable.

Yes. The current Public Website editor supports managed HTML for normal public pages and editable regions around protected dynamic pages.

Their live forms, filters, listings or other application components are protected so an administrator cannot accidentally delete core functionality. Editable HTML can be placed before and after the protected component.

Pricing is tied directly to live plans, allowances, trials and billing configuration. Its structure therefore stays system-driven instead of being replaced by arbitrary HTML.

Yes. Managed public pages use revision history so administrators can review and restore earlier English or translated versions.

Yes. Managed HTML is sanitized before storage/rendering. Dangerous scripts, iframes, forms, event handlers and unsafe URLs are removed while supported content/Bootstrap markup is preserved.

Possible causes include OAuth not being configured, the Google authorization being cancelled, a missing required scope, an expired/revoked token or a temporary Google/API error. Try the connection again and review any message shown by Winkiloo.

The ownership connection is valid, but the Google account has not granted the additional YouTube Analytics read-only scope. Reconnect and approve that permission to unlock advanced reports.

Winkiloo can only display channels returned by YouTube for the selected Google account. Confirm that you chose the correct Google account and that the channel is actually managed by it.

YouTube channel avatars are generally more consistently available than banners. If no usable banner is returned, Winkiloo can fall back to other creator branding.

You may have reached a plan limit or an abuse/rate limit. Check Plans & billing and the message shown by the relevant feature.

Possible causes include a disabled AI feature, missing provider configuration, plan restrictions, exhausted allowance, rate limiting or a temporary provider/network error.

Growth comparisons require data from different dates. The first refresh establishes a baseline, and later snapshots provide changes that can be compared.

YouTube may not return a report for the selected period or may suppress low-volume demographic/audience data. Try a different period and confirm the channel still has Analytics permission.

The report uses Authorized Analytics only when your plan includes advanced analytics and the selected connected channel has the required Analytics permission. Otherwise it can fall back to available public snapshots.

Your saved interface preference should remain independent from the Translation Center target language and public-page preview language. If it does not, sign out/in after changing the preference and contact support if the issue persists.

The target language may be disabled, the page translation may be missing/outdated, or the translation may not yet be approved. Winkiloo intentionally falls back to English rather than showing broken content.

Reload once, confirm that you are still signed in and try the action again. If the problem continues, contact support with the page name, the action you attempted and the error message; do not send passwords or secret API credentials.