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

the most frustrating thing about this for me is mostly just the timing and the short notice of such a major change in requirements. based off my current level of growth I think I could meet this goal in 6 months or if I would have known this change was coming I certainly would have started working on building my channel less in January rather than November. I think adding a watch time requirement is good. it just sucks that the requirements and time frame provided will be out of my reach currently.
 
This is a great move. They should have done it years ago. I'm surprised it took the CEO so long to pull the trigger on this since she came from an advertising background. This will reduce supply of ad space and drive RPM back up and also weed out all the people who do YouTube for the wrong reasons.

As an aside - Have you checked out the blog comments on the official announcement - https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2018/01/additional-changes-to-youtube-partner.html People blatantly doing sub4sub with their channel links on Google's official blog - wow some people are so dumb and lazy it hurts.

Example:

"Hey bros. I'm here to say you all that this policy (4000 Watch Time & 1000 Subscribers) will make many Creators Kicked !! from the YouTube. Please Subscribe to me bros. I work too hard for you all but nobody knows me. I had a request to you. Please Subscribe and Share this message to all."


SMH
 
Both my Chanel’s are done now. Very frustrating. I’m been working hard to get my one channel going and now this. All is small guys should help each other out and sub to each other and give shout outs so get more subs faster.
 
I just read last night that Youtube was changing its criteria again for who gets to participate in the Partner Program next month, and at first when I read about the new monetization eligibility requirements it made me feel a little discouraged, a feeling I've fought through many times before as I have worked to build a Youtube channel.
I decided at the beginning of this year that one of my goals, or New Year’s resolutions, along with continuing to strive to improve my channel and passing the 1000 subscribers milestone, would be to work on being more sociable and more involved with the YT community - meaning rather than spend so much time working on filming, editing, graphics, music and everything else that goes into making my own videos, I want to watch more of other peoples videos, take more time to leave genuine comments, give thumbs ups when I like what I see, and subscribe to more channels. I think getting more involved in this way and sincerely building others up can could go a long way, because I certainly appreciate when others do it for me!
What do you all think?
 
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coliwob said:
Me too, got about $33

But that money should be in your adsense account so it won't dissapear.
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I finally hit 11 bucks the month. Its not much but I was hoping to get to 20 in a few months. Guess this isn't going to happen. Im just shy of 10 bucks of making my first $100 bucks.
 
Action Toys Fun said:
I just read last night that Youtube was changing its criteria again for who gets to participate in the Partner Program next month, and at first when I read about the new monetization eligibility requirements it made me feel a little down, a feeling I've fought through many times before as I have worked to build a Youtube channel.
I decided at the beginning of this year that one of my goals, or New Year’s resolutions, along with continuing to strive to improve my channel and passing the 1000 subscribers milestone, would be to work on being more sociable and more involved with the YT community - meaning rather than spend so much time working on filming, editing, graphics, music and everything else that goes into making my own videos, I want to watch more of other peoples videos, take more time to leave genuine comments, give thumbs ups when I like what I see, and subscribe to more channels. I think getting more involved in this way and sincerely building others up can could go a long way, because I certainly appreciate when others do it for me!
What do you all think?
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Yeah my goals have been kind of similar, I've always been good at replying to comments on my channel but I am trying to leave comments on other people's content a lot more. I'm also trying to get more active on reddit too.

I personally wasn't discouraged by the changes, I'm hoping to look into Patreon and other forms of monetisation in the future anyway with this channel in the future.
 
99% of those affected by new policy are making less than $100 per year according to YouTube Creator Blog. (check it out)
So $8.33 per month is a big dent?[DOUBLEPOST=1516191538,1516191225][/DOUBLEPOST]BTW I started monetizing my first channel when the subscriber number hit 100K. Plan long-term. You will reap much more fruits.
 
Alexander Hoff said:
So now you REALLY need longer videos huh? If you upload shorter videos, then you're screwed. Youtube really wants everyone to be a boring vlogger or lets player nowadays, huh? 10+ minutes of boring content with lots of mid roll ads. And to upload 10 times a day. Perfect! This is just getting ridiculous...
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Boring content won't get you 1000 subscribers, so they added additional protection. And even if ever you reach that threshold there will still be the manual review process, where they can just say NO without any additional explanation.

Good thing that I didn't delete my second channel, when I was considering removing it - yttalk.com/threads/shall-i-delete-a-channel-with-2-86k-subs-and-1-5-million-views.271372/ Now I can upload my less popular and gaming videos there and still keep my main channel only for the high quality videos.
 
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