We've made updates to the YouTube Partner Program to strengthen our community & prevent impersonators + spammers from harming our platform. We understand this affects many channels, but believe it's necessary to protect our creators. For the full updatehttps://goo.gl/T1pvG3
We know this might be discouraging, smaller channels can still grow using creator features and tools that are available. Also, monetization doesn't impact how videos appear in search or how they're promoted/recommended across YouTube.