Has Any Large Channel Here Hit The "Magic Watch Time" Number?

[UKHypnotist]

Good for you, Dean; I hope I get there one day too! @chottom Great; one day maybe we will all get there.

 

[Lightsen]

@ Crown Seeing as how you cannot get Verified status without at least 100K in subscribers, I would consider myself tiny compared to you.

I have about 52K subs and I am verified, I have the email option, and have passed the monutes watched thing you mentioned.
As for advice I can't really give much, as my type off videos are the worse idea if you want to get money/popular. becvause they are very short videos that take months to be posted.

 

[UKHypnotist]

I have about 52K subs and I am verified, I have the email option, and have passed the monutes watched thing you mentioned.
As for advice I can't really give much, as my type off videos are the worse idea if you want to get money/popular. becvause they are very short videos that take months to be posted.

And mine are usually medium length to feature length videos that get posted 4 to 10 per month; well I am not giving up by any means as I love what I do on YouTube.

 

[Lightsen]

And mine are usually medium length to feature length videos that get posted 4 to 10 per month; well I am not giving up by any means as I love what I do on YouTube.

that's fine if you keep yourself on track, its good that you have a very unique channel I've never seen any the same, so having a niche is good

 

[WeKanGame]

I don't consider myself to be a large channel- ( medium maybe ) but yes, I have surpassed that view time and I have access to private YouTube support via email.

It basically gives me the option when I click on "help" at the bottom of the screen:

When I click on that, I can fill in a form which sends an email to Youtube and they usually reply within 24 hours. The quality of the response isn't always that great though. Often as a first reply, they will link to articles in their knowledge base. It's only when you tell them that you've read all that and still have a problem, that they escalate the issue or look at it more closely.

never knew this thank you for sharing! That is a goal now for me Though have a good ways to go!

 

[Khappa]

Interesting question,
but please give me some months more cause now it is early to me to answer, my channel is very very small right now as you can see.

 

[DBA]

YouTube channel owners who have 30K hours or more of watch time in the 90 days preceding, are entitled to direct support from YouTube Admin as I understand it. Please, you who are experts here correct me if I am wrong. 30K/month in watch time hours is also one of the requirements for YouTube Certification.

I think I've seen at least one YouTube Certified badge on this site. 30,000 hours equals 1,800,000 watch time minutes, and I'd like to know how to get there myself. Give us your watch time secrets as replies to this thread.

Isn't it only 15k watched hours for email support? I've had the email support for a couple years, don't think I ever used it though. However earlier this year YouTube setup me up with a partner manager, he's helped me fix a few things (enable non-skipable ads, change custom url).

What's YouTube Certified? (I do have over 30k watched hours)

Also to answer your question, create engaging quality videos that your subscribers want to watch.

 

[Crown]

However earlier this year YouTube setup me up with a partner manager, he's helped me fix a few things (enable non-skipable ads, change custom url).

Sorry to derail, but that is what I need ("enable non-skippable ads") - When I send an email to support (as per the form I mention in this thread), I just get a canned response by someone who seems to be copy-pasting replies and too busy to really help me.

I've recently been offered a consultation with a partner manager (see http://yttalk.com/threads/youtube-has-contacted-me-offering-consultation.187891/ ) so you think he'd be able to set this up for me?

(I don't even understand why I don't have the option by default in the first place. I've seen other channels way smaller than mine and with fewer daily views who have the option.)

 

[UKHypnotist]

that's fine if you keep yourself on track, its good that you have a very unique channel I've never seen any the same, so having a niche is good

I actually ended up with a triple layer niche due to there being so many hypnotists, and sound healers (Binaural Beat makers and Ambient Musicians doing meditation/relaxation music), that I felt the only way to stand out was to combine all three.

Isn't it only 15k watched hours for email support? I've had the email support for a couple years, don't think I ever used it though. However earlier this year YouTube setup me up with a partner manager, he's helped me fix a few things (enable non-skipable ads, change custom url).

What's YouTube Certified? (I do have over 30k watched hours)

Also to answer your question, create engaging quality videos that your subscribers want to watch.

Already doing that; but there are many others doing the same things as I am. I think you are right about the 15K in 90 days. I cannot link as am not VIP, but search YouTube for YouTube Certified and you will find out all about it. What is your channel? Are you DBA Gamer?

Interesting question,
but please give me some months more cause now it is early to me to answer, my channel is very very small right now as you can see.

Is ok @Khappa, the post is aimed at much larger channels than you or I have at the moment.

 

[markkaz]

Sometimes they are helpful and sometimes the aren't. It's when they don't help that is the most frustrating. It sucks to generate as much revenue for YouTube as I do and then be told "sorry, you are a valued creator but..."