Strike expiration

Strikes run on a rolling ninety-day window. One sits on the channel for that period and then drops off, and while it is live the channel is out of good standing, which affects Partner Program eligibility among other things. The number that matters is three. Accumulating three strikes inside the same ninety-day window puts a channel at risk of termination, so the date a second one lands matters as much as the strike itself. Two misreadings are common. A strike is permanent in nobody's version of the rules, and the window rolls from each individual strike, so it has nothing to do with the calendar quarter.