YouTube is fixing the principles around its accomplice program and raising the prerequisites that a channel/designer must meet with a specific end goal to adapt recordings. As of now, to apply for adaptation (and have advertisements connected to recordings), makers more likely than not counted 4,000 hours of general watch time on their channel inside the previous a year and have no less than 1,000 supporters. YouTube will implement the new qualification approach for every single existing channel as of February twentieth, implying that channels that neglect to meet the edge will never again have the capacity to make salary from advertisements.
Beforehand, the standard for joining YouTube's Partner Program was 10,000 open perspectives — with no particular necessity for yearly review hours. This change will no uncertainty make it harder for new, littler channels to achieve adaptation, yet YouTube says it's an imperative method for getting itself more opportunity to see who's following the organization's rules and exclude "awful on-screen characters."
"We've touched base at these new limits after exhaustive investigation and discussions with makers like you," the organization reported in a blog entry. "They will enable us to altogether enhance our capacity to distinguish makers who contribute emphatically to the group and help drive all the more advertisement income to them (and far from terrible on-screen characters)." Though it doesn't specify him by name, YouTube appears to reference the current, prominent Logan Paul occurrence by saying "These higher gauges will likewise enable us to keep conceivably improper recordings from adapting which can hurt income for everybody."
I’m bummed that it will boot out many smaller creators, but I was tired of seeing people steal videos and get more views than the original just for some ad revenue.
I think the bar is too high though.