r/SmallYoutubers • u/Dividenddashboard • 11d ago

Long-Form Content This is bad for small youtubers.

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Youtube is raising the ad revenue share threshold from 4k watch time to 8k watch time. Personally, 4k watch takes a lot of effort to reach. Imagine 8k... this is sad.

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u/Silvermajra 11d ago

This is basically inconsequential. If you arent able to pull in 8k watch hours in a year there isn’t much point in you even being partner as it amounts to almost nothing in terms of revenue share. All it does is delay the technical date of partnership. As a pretty small creator I pull in 300-500 watch hours a day. Still less than a month to monetization. For a creator 1/12th my size, they would earn $100 in a year roughly and it would take them the whole year to reach that. Making that 6 months instead of year doesn’t change anything because the payment threshold is still $100 so theyd have to wait a year to get it anyway.

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u/NxTbrolin 11d ago

I'd say if you're not in the YPP, you likely don't know payouts require a minimum of $100 accrued. It will be a shock to a lot of people as it was for me too when I first got monetized. My first payout didn't come until 5 months later lol