YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money | TechCrunch
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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.
  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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    22 days ago

    The end result is that channels will just post twice as much slop to get to those hours

    Slop doesn’t get return viewers, which is counter-productive to reaching a watch hours (or subscribers) threshold.