How to join YouTube Partner Program
Once you’ve reached 1,000 subscribers with more than 4,000 hours of your content watched in the last 12 months, you can sign up for the YouTube Partner Program which allows you to include adverts in your videos. Alternatively, you’re eligible to sign up if you have 1,000 subscribers and 10 million views on your short videos in the past 90 days.
Advertisers pay for clicks and impressions and you’ll receive around 55 per cent of the revenue your content generates.
You can set up ads from the ‘Monetization’ feature in the YouTube Studio. From here, you can turn on ads for single or multiple videos.
Your content will need to meet YouTube’s advertiser-friendly content guidelines, and adverts will only start appearing on your videos once they have passed an automated or human review to make sure they meet YouTube guidelines.
From the dashboard, you can then look at your monthly estimated revenue to see how much you could start earning.
What is AdSense?
Once you’re signed up to the Partner Program, setting up an AdSense account is the easiest way to get paid by YouTube.
It’s important to note that YouTube will only pay you once you’ve earned $100 or more from ads on your videos.
YouTube Shorts – are they worth it?
If you’re a part of YouTube’s Partner Program, then you’ll be able to make money from YouTube Shorts.
But it’s worth considering whether they’re the right format for you. It’s harder to make money from YouTube Shorts than it is with longer videos.
The ‘revenue for every 1k view’ (RPM) for a YouTube short is £0.03 while a long form video’s RPM is between £1.28 and £23.23.
But the popularity of short form video content means that it’s certainly a route to consider if you’re looking to grow your audience.
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