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

Wakanda said:
From ‘usually within a week to by ‘ by end of April’
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I suppose they will give monetization not earlier December 2018.
 
Hi there,

I have learned that I need 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours watching to monetize in twelve months. I have a question. Let's say I have 999 subscribers and 3999 hours watching in 11 months and 29 days. There is one day to the next twelve months. What if I can't reach 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours watching? What' happens next? In the next year do I need 1001 subscribers and 4001 hours watching again? I need explanation.

Thank you.
 
I believe... someone correct me if I'm wrong!

If you don’t get those numbers the first year, I believe you just need to try again. Any 12 months that you achieve these numbers, you can apply your account to be monetized.

What I'm not sure is that if you reach the goal it means you are on the other side or if you need to fulfil those requirements every year. Although if you reached that the first time, you should almost automatically do it again... unless you stop uploading content.

Seems YouTube is not trying to stop anyone from making money. They are trying to kill spam channels. If you’re consistent and you have good quality videos, these numbers are very easy to achieve.
 
clerick said:
I honestly think its a great change, 10k was too low. This will absolutely devastate the reuploader for money channels as they need to dedicate time/resources and approval to make one scam channel monetizable. Furthermore 100k-300k views is peanuts in terms of dollars, and small channels shouldnt be running ads to begin with as it drives people away when you have no fanbase to speak off. Get to 10k subs or so and then get monetization.
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I agree with your statement about the new YouTube requirements. I myself am new to running a YouTube, but I have been watching YouTuve videos sense I was a young kid. I think they need to push the standards up like you said, so then new content creators can have something to strive for. Instead of doing minimum work just to earn a pay check.
 
Looking at what @clerick said many pages back about not monetizing until you reach 10,000 subs, I need to ask a few questions.

What if a channel's content corresponds to a "micro niche", making such a channel unlikely to break 10k in subs for many years, if ever? Should such a creator go uncompensated forever? Same for a small channel in an extremely competitive major niche?

I posted my first video to my current main channel in 2009; I was invited to the original Partner Program within 6 months of that first upload. Should I have refused the invitation? I sit right now at 5826 subs, and I have my Adsense payment threshold set to £2500.00.

I am not going to turn off monetization now; knowing that if I do, I will immediately be placed in the review queue, to get back my monetization gods know when!
 
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