cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1327151/youtube-announces-monetization-changes-that-make-it-harder-for-new-creators-to-make-mone
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.
This is bullshit. 4000 hours of watch time was already a near impossible goal for new channels, especially after the past year’s UI and algorithm changes. Now they want twice that?!?
It’s theft. Even if you only have 100 views, you should be eligible for a cut of the profits you generated with your content.
The market is dying for a new competitor to come in and disrupt their monopoly
As someone who is currently monetized with 5000 watch hours in the past year, I’m super mixed on this. On the one hand, I’m only making like 30 bucks per month, basically nothing, so I can see how YouTube would want to reduce overhead. On the other hand, that $30 bucks per month is a nice little bonus. I’d still be creating without it, but it is nice to have, and, YouTube already doesn’t pay out until you hit $100, so that oughtta reduce most of the overhead. It seems like it’d be a better solution to just raise that to a $200 minimum or something. You’re probably right, it might just be greed.
Putting ads on these creator’s videos AND not paying creators is wild though, no matter how small the channel is.
Side note: Am I at risk of becoming un-monetized?? I know it’s possible.
Side note the second: I host my own instance of PeerTube for my videos - https://joeltube.com/
The problem is infrastructure costs. You’re either spending a metric shit ton of money on hardware or you’re spending a metric fuck ton of money on renting it.