Creators often tweet @ us asking about YouTube Partner Program applications – if that's you, we have some improvements to share:
Full update
https://yt.be/help/ypp-sign-up …
Quick summary of updates 
all watch time should count towards it like it always has. I stream 6-8 hours a day and unlist them afterwards, because I upload other videos and don't want it to be cluttered. Now that I was super close to getting 4000 hours I'm now at 599 Please allow unlisted streams to count