YouTube Monetization Requirements in 2024

Once you decide to make money on YouTube, then you must meet the YouTube monetization requirements.

Yes, before you get monetized, you must follow some monetization rules on YouTube to prove yourself as a worthy YouTuber.

Recently, YouTube updated its monetization policy quite a few times, which helps to make money in advance.

In this detailed guide, I’ll explain the eligibility criteria for joining the YouTube Partner Program and start making money from the channels.

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Key Summary:

• A few years back, there were no conditions for earning money from YouTube. However, YouTube introduced this option to maintain its credibility and optimize the platform.
• Other than ads, there are different ways to earn passive income from YouTube, which I will mention in the chapters below.
• YouTube is not an overnight success. It would be best to spend time, do hard work, and make consistent videos to achieve it.

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Updated: This post will edited frequently, based on the announcement of new YouTube monetization rules & regulations. So, I recommend you bookmark this article for future reference.

YouTube Monetization Requirements in 2024

Around there are 10+ ways to make money from YouTube once you met the monetization requirements.

I believe you have already started using the YouTube channel and are getting more views. If you need more clarification, follow our blog for more YouTubing tips.

Generally, you can categorize the money-making stream on YouTube into two sections:

• Brand-Funded
•  Fan-Funded.

Let’s see each of them, what they are, what policy is required to monetize the YouTube channel, etc., below.

Brand Funded: YouTube Monetization Criteria

In general, the eligibility criteria for making money from YouTube ads, you’ve to meet the following requirements,

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Eligibility Criteria for YouTube Ads

• The channel must have 1000 subscribers. (And )
• Required to have 4000 public watch hours in the last 12 months.

(or)

• Required to have 10M public short views in the last 90 days.

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Refer to the below image for better understanding.

Once you meet the above brand-funded eligibility, your channel will start generating money from YouTube ads displayed at the top, beginning, or end of your long-form and short-form videos on YouTube.

Well, this is the core rule of the YouTube partner program. However, you must follow a few more regulations to enable monetization, which I will explain deeply below.

Also note that YouTube unlocks the opportunity to earn revenue from Short videos. Read the article if you want to enable YouTube Shorts Monetization.

 Fan Funded: YouTube Monetization Rules

Recently, YouTube lowered its fan-funding monetization requirements for the YPP entry. They are:

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Fan Funded YouTube Partner Program Requirements

• The channel must have 500 Subscribers.
• 3 valid Public uploads in the last 90 days

(and either)

• 3000 valid public watch hours in the past year (or)
• 3M valid public Shorts Views

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Further, for better understanding, refer to the below image.

The above-mentioned requirement is only eligible for monetizing the YouTube fan funding options. For example, Super Chat, Super Stickers, Super Thanks, Channel Memberships, and YouTube Shopping Products.

YouTube enables this feature for the reason of creators can earn money early from YouTube.

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YouTube Monetization Requirements Rules

Besides the requirements mentioned above, you must follow the below-specified rule on YouTube to qualify for monetization.

1) Create AdSense Account

It is mandatory to have an AdSense account in your name. It will link to your channel, and you will receive the money through the details related to your AdSense account.

You can link more than one channel and other AdSense-supportive mediums with a single AdSense account.

Create an AdSense Account for YouTube

2) Obey YouTube Monetization Rules

In a nutshell, you must ensure your channel meets all the YouTube rules, policies, and guidelines.

Firstly, this is not a one-time process. Let’s say you enabled YouTube monetization by following all the community guidelines. However, on some days in the future, you fail to follow those policies and rules.

Then, immediately, you will be out of the YouTube Partner Program. So, you’ve to be careful at every step before you upload the video or content on YouTube.

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I recommend you read the policies below:

• YouTube Community Guidelines
• AdSense Program Policies
• Monetization Policies
• Terms of Service

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As YouTube states, human review and machine learning technology help monitor the channel guidelines.

3) Don’t Fall into Copyrights

The copyright issue is the biggest enemy for YouTubers who want to see revenue from YouTube.

Firstly, there are two terms related to copyrights.

• Copyright Claims
• Copyright Strike

When someone claims your video as their content, you can dispute them or take some other action. It won’t much affect the channel.

But if somehow you receive the copyright strikes, then it’s quite a sleep-less night for YouTubers for the next 90 days.

The reason is that you’re out of YouTube’s monetization policy from that moment. Also, when the channel gets three copyright strikes, YouTube will terminate your channel permanently. You can’t recover it.

To learn more about it, read the article below.

• Difference between YouTube Copyright claim and Copyright Strike

To avoid copyright claims and strike, don’t use someone else’s content on your channel.

Moreover, try to use third-party royalty-free music for backgrounds and other stock-related items.

4) Enable Advance Feature for Monetization

By default, verifying your YouTube channel account is one of the essential criteria for enabling monetization.

• Go to YouTube Studio > Settings > Channel > Feature eligibility.

Then, please verify your phone number and enable all the Standard, Intermediate, and Advanced features, as they are the essential eligibility criteria for YouTube monetization.

5) Enable Two-Factor Authentication

When you visit the YouTube creator X account (Twitter), you can see many tweets related to channel hacks or malware attacks. So, YouTube adds a mandatory layer of a two-factor authentication process for the channels to apply for monetization.

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8 Methods to Monetize YouTube Channel

How to Get Monetized on YouTube?

If you think YouTube ads are the only way, then you missed the other lucrative methods of generating money.

There are different ways to make money from YouTube.

1) YouTube Ads

As mentioned, YouTube will start publishing ads on your videos once you enable monetization.

Generally, different kinds of ads will start to display on your channel. They are:

• Overlay Ads
• Non-Skippable Ads
• Skippable Ads
• Display Ads
• Mid-Roll Placement Ads

YouTube will give you the commission based on the YouTube channel niche, location, target audiences, and other metrics.

As part of your monetization account, the ads will also display for your short videos. However, there are more solid ways to make decent money than YouTube Shorts.

2) YouTube Premium

YouTube Premium is nothing but the audience who pay some amount to YouTube to watch videos without ads, download the videos, co-watch without an app background, etc.

However, as you’re a YouTube content creator, you will receive a specific commission as part of the subscription revenue payment when the premium member watches your videos.

3) Fan Funding

As said before, Fan Funding is nothing but,

• Super Chat: Super Chat allows audiences to buy and send comments to creators during live streams. These messages are highlighted and pinned to the top of the chat for host notifications.
•  Super Sticker: Similar to Super Chat, viewers can purchase stickers and send them instead of messages.
•  Super Thanks: Super Thanks is buying animation super-thanks to express additional appreciation for their creator’s videos.

4) Channel Membership

Channel membership is uploading exclusive content for the paid creators to your channel alone. The audiences will buy the monthly membership directly on your channel, and you’re providing exclusive content for them in exchange.

5) Paid Sponsorship

Once the channel evolves decent credibility, the other brands related to your niche will approach you directly to do the paid sponsorship or collaboration.

I recommend you add the links, social media profiles, email addresses, and other contact sources on your channel dashboard from day 1.

6) Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a lucrative way to make money on YouTube. When you promote the product links on the YouTube description, and when someone purchases through your shared link, you will get a certain amount as commission.

For example, Bluehost is a hosting company with an affiliate program, and its commission rate for a single sale is $65.

• AdSense vs Affiliate Marketing: Which is Best for YouTubers

Even though your monetization requirements are not enabled on YouTube, you can make money from YouTube Affiliate marketing from day 1 of starting your channel.

7) YouTube Merch

You can sell the list of products on your channel dashboard itself. So, selling your own brand products on the YouTube platform is called YouTube merch.

8) Crowd Funding

In a nutshell, ask money from audiences to support your channel with a smaller amount like $1, $5,… Even recently, Wikipedia used this strategy to maintain its standards.

You can skip YouTube partner program guidelines to start crowdfunding on your channel. However, this is a brand-level approach. Only you can make some dollars when you have trustable audience connectivity.

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Tips to Enable Monetization

Ok, let me explain a few tips and tricks to enable monetization requirements on YouTube using my experience.

Remember that it’s not an overnight process. Results are the by-product of the small, small process. So, always take care of each small step and give your 110% daily to achieve and enable monetization.

Firstly, you can check your channel monetization eligibility status under the YouTube Studio > Earn tab. Take a look at the below image.

Ok, let’s see some of the valuable tips,

1. Create Content for People’s

You have to create content for the people, not for the YouTube partner program. Once you satisfy the pulse of the audience, everything will come automatically.

If your goal is only to earn money from the channel, then you will fail to deliver quality content.

2. Focus on Watch Hours

One essential requirement to monetize the channel is getting 4000 watch hours in the last 12 months. It means 2,40,000 minutes hardly. Well, the question is, how do you achieve it?

Also, there is a misconception among creators that the longer the videos you make, the better the rank you’ll get, and it turns into significant watch hours.

That’s not entirely true.

As I told you previously, YouTube likes to share valuable content with audiences. Not depending on the length of the video.

So, creating longer videos will only help you meet the monetization criteria (4000 watch hours) if the content is valuable only to the audience.

Tips To Increase YouTube Watch Time:

• Create Playlist Videos: When you plan to make tutorial or explanation videos, try to split them into different episodes. Then, create playlists for them. This makes the audience watch one video after another, drastically increasing watch time, and your videos are only present on their YouTube suggestion page even more.
• Monitor Performance: You must regularly monitor which video watch time is performing well and which is not. YouTube Analytics is the best way to monitor your video performance. Hence, you can replicate the same success video formula to other videos.
• Add End Screen & Info Cards: It’s always best to keep the audiences on YouTube, and it’s even better to keep them on your channel for a long time. To accomplish that, you can add connected end-screen videos at the end of the current playing video. This trick keeps the audience watching another video, another, and so on. For example, take a look at this What If YouTube channel. I love to watch black hole mysteries. So, when I watched this, What If a White Hole and Black Hole Collided? video, I got the end-screen suggested video as, “What If a Black Hole Entered Our Solar System?” Do you think I missed that video?

• Don’t Fluff: Will you watch the video if it’s different from what you’re searching for? Fluffing the videos to increase their length will increase the audience’s bounce rate of the channel.

3. YouTube Subscribers

Another primary YouTube monetization requirement is to get the first 1000 subscribers.

As a beginner-level YouTuber, it takes a lot of work. But doable.

Follow the tips below to increase subscribers count.

• Niche Channel: You have to find your channel’s niche audiences. The process will take time. Once you start uploading videos related to your niche, the subscriber count will increase automatically.
• Watermark Button: Add a watermark subscribe button on each video. This will prompt the audience to subscribe to the channel.
• SEO Optimization: Add the SEO-optimized video title, description, and tags. It will increase the visibility of your channel on search engines.
• Add Weirdo Link: Append this text (“?sub_confirmation=1”) at the end of your channel URL when you share your channel on social media. See the magic when you click my channel link.

To learn more about it, read here to increase your YouTube subscribers and also read the YouTube Monetization’s secret tips.

Lastly, let’s see some frequently asked questions about YouTube Monetization Rules and Regulations.

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FAQs

1. Have Active Copyrights Strike, Is My Channel Eligible?

When you have active community guidelines strike, the channel is not qualified for monetization. Even after monetization is enabled, you receive the strike, and your channel will be out of the monetization process at any time.

2. How do You Apply for the YouTube Partner Program?

Once you reach the monetization requirements, YouTube will automatically review your channel. Moreover, YouTube assists both the automated system and human investigators in reviewing.

If you satisfy all the YouTube guidelines, you will be considered a YPP member.

3. How Long YouTube Takes to Approve my YPP Application?

It depends on the channel weightage and other metrics for YouTube to take time to approve your channel’s YPP application.

Generally, it takes 30 days to validate, and sometimes, it is even less than that.

4. Is the YouTube Partner Program available in all countries?

If you’re in the following countries, you’re welcome to join YPP,

• Australia
• Brazil
• Belgium
• Canada
• Denmark
• Germany
• Iceland
• India
• Iraq
• Italy
• Indonesia
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Kenya
• Malaysia
• Mexico
• New Zealand
• Netherlands
• Russia
• Singapore
• Saudi Arabia
• United Arab Emirates
• South Africa
• Thailand
• United Kingdom
• United States
• And many more on the list. Kindly click here and see

5. What Should I Do if YouTube Rejects my YPP Application?

Suppose YouTube rejects the channel’s YouTube Partner Program application. In that case, the reason is that you may not follow the monetization rules.

Firstly, don’t worry if the application is not selected on the first try. Try to check all the possibilities, and if any problems are found, then solve them.

Again, re-apply if after 30 days.

Let’s say, again, the channel was rejected for monetization after the first try, and then you have to wait 90 more days now to re-apply that. Remember, you’ve to meet the requirements even after those 90 days.

6. Will Private Video hours be considered to be 4000 watch hours?

The answer is NO. Generally, YouTube considers only the public video views watch hours. So, it won’t weigh the following video views count into 4000 watch time,

1. Private Videos
2. YouTube Shorts Videos
3. Advertisement Videos
4. Deleted Videos
5. And Lastly, Unlisted Videos

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Conclusion

In conclusion, YouTube introduced a new way to make money from shorts, which benefits small creators.

A wide variety of opportunities are available to make some dollars on YouTube. All you need to do is think about it, plan it, and finally roll up your sleeves to achieve it.

I understand that you may feel like reaching 1000 subs and 4000 hours of watch time on YouTube is a tricky mission to complete. But when you follow up and monitor the above things we discussed, you’ll get the pass to enter the YouTube partner program room as soon as possible.

This YouTube monetization requirement article guides you in learning and exploring new things for your YouTube journey. If so, leave a “Yes” in the comment section and share your thoughts.

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