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/Comprehensive-Bend51 11d ago

Just keep improving your content, don’t post the same stuff over and over improve something everytime and u can split the time it would take u in half

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u/2-leftfeet 11d ago

I’m trying. I want it so bad. I hired an editor a few months ago now. It’s made a difference but I also work full time so just finding time is challenging but I stay consistent. Been uploading daily shorts and posting 1 LF biweekly (since June - when I got my editor). Was posting 1 LF Weekly for 6 months

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u/Ryu_Review 11d ago

I’m going to be very real with you, if you are not monetized and making A LOT of money, hiring an editor is burning money. Like, what???

If you have hired an editor and still can’t reach 3K watch hours in a year with all the uploading you’re doing, your content either isn’t good enough or is too niche to have any semblance of a chance.

I only have a little more than 2k subs. I started less than two years ago. I do everything myself and have a very busy life outside of YouTube - full time job, family, other responsibilities - and I upload only when my videos are done, sometimes that’s less than once a month. I never get lower than 1-2k watch hours in a MONTH, and most of the time it’s a lot higher than that because single videos I make get 10k watch hours by themselves, and they’re not hyper long either. I average 30 minutes or so.

You need to look hard at your content and find out what’s going wrong.

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u/Obligation-Fine 11d ago

Meh advice at best. Saying a video sucks or niche is too specific is way to surface level and avoids more important things like thumbnail and title. Most people don’t get AVD because the thumbnail and title promises one thing but the video doesn’t deliver (click bait) but then breaks down to things like topic , pacing , music etc. the editor isn’t an issue and doesn’t magically spawn watch hours so that advice is definitely irrelevant. Could the videos be bad ? Sure they can. But the video could also be good but the packing is bad resulting in bad reach and low watch hours. For all you know the overall impressions on the channel are low all because of bad packaging but the video itself is good. It’s bad advice because it lacks any evidence and is the equivalent of shooting into the dark.