“[…] starting today, new channels will need to have 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time within the past 12 months to be eligible for ads. We will begin enforcing these new requirements for existing channels in [YouTube Partner Program] beginning February 20th, 2018.”https://twitter.com/SusanWojcicki/status/953403136420364288 …
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In other words: in response to the misbehavior of Logan Paul, a guy with over 15 MILLION subscribers, YouTube has decided to punish fledgling creators with less than 1 thousand. People who already don’t make enough AdSense revenue to make ends meet to begin with. This is asinine.
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Replying to @LordPancreas
This is ridiculous. I don't care about making a couple cents on a video, but what about custom thumbnails? And I'm fairly positive monetized videos rank better. How can you grow if you can't make it easy for people to click on your videos?
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I feel confident enough making the push to get to 1k in the next month, but 4000 hours of watch time from the past 12 months is going to be what makes it nearly impossible.
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Replying to @SheaDepmore @TeamYouTube
And like, I’m up for the challenge I guess. I realize success on YouTube takes a lot of hustle regardless. But it’s still pretty demoralizing. Especially considering that 1.) We already work practically for free for this platform, and 2.) Channels like ours were never the problem
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Totally.
This is so disheartening. Just figured out I need close to 150k minutes of watch time and 185 more subs in the next month in order to stay a partner. I hustle, but... fml. This is going to be hard to figure out.
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