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When you associate your Youtube account with your existing Adsense,
you get the following error.
Your AdSense application was rejected. Please click here to associate
a different AdSense account.
Don't worry, your Adsense account is OK. This is just stupid and very
misleading Youtube error.
Remember when you started setting up the association, Youtube prompted for
an E-mail address?
Well, it seems that the application rejected status refers to the entered
e-mail. The status works for new applications only.
But since you are specifying an existing account e-mail, which is already
present in Adsense databases, it rejects any new applications with this
e-mail. So it treats every e-mail entered as a new registration, regardless
of Use existing account being selected. Very misleading indeed.
Youtube needs time to synchronize with Adsense. So make sure you clicked the
enable access link in the email in your inbox, and check that you have
Youtube in third parity access section of your Adsense account.
In a couple of hours, the status in your Youtube account should get links
to Adsense account, meaning the association is complete and monetization is
now fully operational.