YouTube no longer allow monetizing channels under 10,000 views??

[Highfalutin' Low Carb]

Is this article correct? Business Insider seems to be a pretty legit source. Posted 31 minutes ago. Can't include link, so you'll have to search for it.

"Nearly five years to the day YouTube made its Partner Program available to anyone, essentially letting people create a channel and immediately start making money, the company announced on Thursday that creators will no longer be able to monetize their channels until they receive 10,000 lifetime views.

Once they reach that threshold, YouTube will review those channels against their policies to see if they're okay to begin making money.

YouTube says this requirement is designed to help discourage scam artists and content creators that violate YouTube policy from making money off the platform, the company said in a blog post."

(Link added by staff):
https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2017/04/introducing-expanded-youtube-partner.html

 

[sledrunner31]

Well people are going to be ******* for views even more hardcore now.

 

[SmartTheDumb]

10000 lifetime views shouldn't be too hard to reach though...

 

[Highfalutin' Low Carb]

I just verified this. It appears to be correct, and comes from the YouTube Creator Blog on their site. :-(

(Link added by staff):
https://youtube-creators.googleblog.com/2017/04/introducing-expanded-youtube-partner.html



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10000 lifetime views shouldn't be too hard to reach though...

You're right. And in my personal opinion, I wouldn't try to monetize that early anyway. But Google had to do something to send a message to the big advertisers that they are doing something about their recent issues, so I guess is a good thing.

 

[SmartTheDumb]

Exactly. Given the situation, I find this to be a really good measure. Actually, we should be thankful that youtube isn't requiring 100k views overall.

 

[sledrunner31]

10000 lifetime views shouldn't be too hard to reach though...

I would agree with that. If you really try at your channel it shouldn't be too long to get 10K views. Maybe a few months. And its not like your going to miss out on a lot of money or anything.

 

[Noobzilla]

I don't see this as anything but a good thing

 

[TheGameGateway]

Before those amounts of views you basically earn next to no money anyway so I don't see it being all that big of a deal, I mean before I got to 10,000 I probably had like maybe £3 or £4...so it's really not a big issue and I don't understand why you think it is haha Either way, just keep progressing and pushing out videos and you'll be at that milestone in no time at all.

 

[maarcnig]

Well thank god I don't have to deal with this... lol

Dam Youtube is getting more strict. I guess it's fair to avoid all the scam artists violating their rules and what not

 

[Scootakip [Lana]]

It's only 10K views, it's not that hard to get.
Not to mention, adsense won't really make much of a difference for you if you've yet to pull in 10K views yet, anyways. This seems fair to me.