It’s a big relief for new content creators on YouTube after the video streaming platform relaxed its terms and conditions for its monetization policy.
YouTube has now relaxed the conditions for content creators to join the program to get paid for their content on the platform.
Contrary to what was previously required for people to have at least 1000 followers, now that requirement has been relaxed and with only 500 followers, you can already apply to join the program to receive commissions from viewing your content.
The company is expanding its affiliate program to buy for US creators who are part of YPP – a paid program – and have more than 20,000 subscribers.
The Google-owned company said that the new conditions for qualifying for the partner program are:
1. Have 500 subscribers,
2. Have three public uploads in the last 90 days.
3. And either 3,000 hours of viewing in the past year or 3 million Shorts viewed in the past 90 days.
Previously, the conditions were:
1. Have at least 1,000 subscribers;
2. And either 4,000 hours of viewing in the past year or 10 million Shorts viewed in the past 90 days.
It should be noted that this is not the first time that YouTube has changed some of the conditions because last year in November, they banned any video from using abusive language in the first 15 minutes, this condition being directed to videos that had been published before.
The benchmark of three video uploads per 90 days is interesting as long-form video creators may not have the resources to produce many videos over a period of time despite amassing millions of viewers.
YouTube is using this new eligibility criteria in the US, UK, Canada, Taiwan and South Korea. It will later distribute it to other countries where YPP is available.
