This really stings because you can't use cards unless you opt into the partner program. That's Youtube's mechanism for linking to an external site. I had ads d

This really stings because you can't use cards unless you opt into the partner program. That's Youtube's mechanism for linking to an external site. I had ads disabled on my Youtube channel but was forced into the partnership program just so I could link to my website in a card. Now those cards are going to disappear which means it's extremely unlikely someone is going to find my site since it's only listed in the description. As a content provider this makes me less interested in using their platform. I'm only at 2,000 hours watched and 366 subs which isn't remotely close to their new threshold considering those are life time stats. The 4,000 hours and 1,000 subs have to be less than 12 months old. The weird thing is, the channels with the largest amount of subscribers are the ones who are the most risky to advertisers. I don't follow Youtube drama but didn't some kid recently video record a corpse with tens of millions of subscribers, and now advertisers are ripping into Youtube. That one video from 1 person with tons of subs is responsible for more negative advertising press than hundreds of thousands of people with smaller channels.