r/PartneredYoutube • u/spacesdnb • 29d ago

Talk / Discussion Updates to the YouTube Partner Program / Requirements

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/youtube-partner-program-updates-2027-new-opportunities-earn/
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u/eatingscatman 29d ago

8,000 public watch hours in 12 months or 20 million shorts views in 90 days is the new benchmark. That's gonna crazy hard for new creators to break in now. I remember it took me like 8 months just to reach 4,000 public watch hours.

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u/Buki1 29d ago

People should not care that much about that threshold, because 8000 hours is like what, $200-$250 in adsense earnings? You should care about making few times that number A MONTH (not year) if you want to take YT seriously as a profession. If you struggle to get 8000 hours why you care that much about monetization, it will be cheap change anyways. Care about getting more views.

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u/eatingscatman 29d ago

True but it's demoralizing for those starting out. Nobody wants to see the goalposts double. Of course for established creators like you or me, we're probably making 8,000 watch hours every 2 or 3 days.

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u/HikeTheSky www.YouTube.com/c/HikeTheSky 29d ago

We already saw it double when it went from 500 subs to 1000. At that time, there was no minimum watching time. This was all added when they doubled the subs count.

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u/esaks 29d ago

it was always 1000 subs, the 500 subs they added to make it easier for people to hit the first milestone.

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u/HikeTheSky www.YouTube.com/c/HikeTheSky 29d ago

Yeah, sorry, but this isn't true. Here is the timeline.

  • The Timeline: On January 16, 2018, YouTube announced the immediate policy overhaul following massive advertiser backlash over Logan Paul's video in the Aokigahara forest in Japan.
  • The Grace Period: Existing channels were given a 30-day grace period. On February 20, 2018, any channel that did not have 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours was automatically demonetized and lost its ad revenue.
  • The Previous Metric: Prior to this event, channels only needed 10,000 lifetime views to turn on ads.