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> Starting today we’re changing the eligibility requirement for monetization to 4,000 hours of watchtime within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. Is th
by yeukhon 9y ago
> Starting today we’re changing the eligibility requirement for monetization to 4,000 hours of watchtime within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers.
Is this an annual check? Or is it a one-time enrollement eligibility?
The 4000 hours is a big entry bar... it’s already hard enough to gain subscribers. Indeed the small creators - those who get maybe 5k views per video + 1000 subscriber + 5 mins videos won’t be making money??
- DanBC 9y agoDoesn't 4000 hours rule out massive channels like SlowMoGuys? EDIT: 4000? That's 70 hours per week.
- yeukhon 9y agoBut it's difficult to get 70 hours of views already for most of the small channels now making some money. Let alone 4000 hours a year accumulated. So basically YouTube is saying we don't want to pay the smaller guys. But the fact is a lot of the smaller guys do good videos and deserve to have a stake too.