Hot Topic New monetization changes: 4k hours & 1k subs (**discussion here only**)

So it looks like YouTube have reacted to the Logan Paul drama by coming down with a massive hammer blow to small channels wanting to earn a few bucks with YouTube. You now need 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch time minutes in the last 12 months to qualify. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, but it's surely going to discourage new creators from starting. Thoughts?
 
LIVEst said:
Get a real job to pay your bills. 20-30$ even 100$/month is nothing if it's your goal. I quit and sell one project when my income from it was 200$. To earn such money on youtube you should have more than these small new limits. Create for fun, your real watchers and for learning new things. Good luck!
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Haha, dude, you shall get real. Are you suggesting that all these 11-15 years old, that had YouTube channels for the fun of it to get a real job? Many (<1000 subscribers) people used the YouTube income (even if small) to buy new gear (mics, cameras, lights) and develop their channel further.
 
adams eats said:
So it looks like YouTube have reacted to the Logan Paul drama by coming down with a massive hammer blow to small channels wanting to earn a few bucks with YouTube. You now need 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch time minutes in the last 12 months to qualify. I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, but it's surely going to discourage new creators from starting. Thoughts?
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Your thread will be merged into a bigger one, where this topic is discussed since yesterday. I don't think YouTube came with these new thresholds because of Logan Paul (actually I don't believe he has anything to do with it, just bad timing with his failure). YouTube was holding new applications for a long time and these new requirements were evaluated for a long time and this is somewhat compromise between big and small creators. They can easily make the requirements 10,000 or 100,000 subscribers, yet there would still be plenty of ad slots for the advertisers to be happy.
 
Things sure have changed from the days when YT actually invited channels to take on board advertising.

Yep, I did, and still do my channel for fun, so nothing's really changed except the criteria for financial incentive.

What comes around goes around.
 
Finally found some of the dreaded emails. I'm getting four channels ejected, leaving a single monetized channel (the one in my signature). I've got my Adsense set to a custom threshold; and it is much higher than my country's minimum which I've passed many times over. I may raise it even higher now, to give myself a financial goal to strive for. I didn't start YouTubing "for the money"; but this move by the YPP has changed my mind on that! I'll still do quality over quantity; but I need to make up for the fact that my "reinvest in channel fund" flow will now be reduced.

@The BBQ Chef I may abandon that proposed survey; right now I'm too depressed to even complete my current video project. One of the ejected channels is a collaboration with a fellow hypnotherapist in the US; so now I have to figure out a way to break the news to her, as she has given over management of the joint channel to me.

I wonder if she will want to continue now...
 
JayZippo said:
Was listening to a podcast, and the one guy brought up a good point. Think of it like the NFL. YouTube just told the world they are no longer having a draft meaning, the young new channel that might of been an awesome big channel will NEVER happen now. Whoever is in the cool club, is all you will have from here on out unless they change something.

Thought it was a good point to share.
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It hasn't become impossible to become a bigger channel just because there are some limitations on when you can monetize. And hopefully, they won't nerf smaller channels too much otherwise the 'good' content, the stuff coming from the cool club, will get stale and fail. A suply of new creators is important too
 
Nah, the change they made that was caused by Logan Paul was mandating videos released by the people in the Youtube Preferred Program need to be reviewed by a human person before monetization can begin on the video. The change to the min requirements for YTPP is due to the multiple adpocalypses that hit YT in 2017. The terrorist stuff. Then the kids' channel stuff. Then the copycat channel stuff. Lots of stuff that they'd hope would get flagged before reaching this new threshold of 1k subs and 4,000 hours watch time.

I hate it too by the way. But I understand it.
 
UKHypnotist said:
@The BBQ Chef I may abandon that proposed survey; right now I'm too depressed to even complete my current video project. One of the ejected channels is a collaboration with a fellow hypnotherapist in the US; so now I have to figure out a way to break the news to her, as she has given over management of the joint channel to me.

I wonder if she will want to continue now...
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Sorry to hear that
 
Xaenca said:
Nah, the change they made that was caused by Logan Paul was mandating videos released by the people in the Youtube Preferred Program need to be reviewed by a human person before monetization can begin on the video. The change to the min requirements for YTPP is due to the multiple adpocalypses that hit YT in 2017. The terrorist stuff. Then the kids' channel stuff. Then the copycat channel stuff. Lots of stuff that they'd hope would get flagged before reaching this new threshold of 1k subs and 4,000 hours watch time.

I hate it too by the way. But I understand it.
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Fair point actually. I think the whole Logan thing just added fuel to the fire. I think I'm going to be ok, just worried for other small creators really.
 
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