New opportunities to earn and changes to the YouTube Partner Program
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We’re making important changes to help the YouTube Partner Program remain the leader in the creator economy.

New creators applying for YouTube Partner Program (YPP) will need 8,000 qualified watch hours in the last 365 days, or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.

Old requirements for comparison:

1,000 subscribers with 4,000 watch hours in the past year or 10 million Shorts views in the past 90 days.

  • greybeard@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Hosting the content, providing the bandwidth. Being a concentration point for viewers. All of which does provide value and cost money. If it didn’t, there’d be a million competitors. Obvious there would be no users without content, but there also would be no content without users.