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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money

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YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money | TechCrunch

Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.

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YouTube became evil the moment Google got involved.
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  Maybe but YouTube wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for the years Google paid for it with no monetization in sight.
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    It was doing just fine until Google bought it.

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