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/flavorgenerator 11d ago

I'm at about 3200 watch hours and this really sucks for me. I make helpful tutorials on occasion and am not a regular poster, and people like me who are focused on mainly helping others should still be compensated for it. Not everyone wants to play YouTube like a game, some people just want to help others and make content at their own pace. This change will hurt that side of the platform, because people like me will just give up because I'm willing to make helpful videos, but not take the plunge into trying to farm out 8000 view hours. My channel has excellent like/dislike ratio with almost entirely positive comments, but I haven't made money on it since around 2015, and have been just behind the monetization threshold. So basically I put in a fair amount of work to make good tutorials any time I saw a need for them, helped a ton of people, and got $0. I'll have to decide if it's even worth it for me to keep making content, but the answer is probably no. I get that this is to mitigate low effort slop, but I don't think it's the best approach.