Hello, everyone and welcome back to a new video shawne's, the name YouTube's the game in this video we'll be talking about the new ish requirements, the YouTube Partner Program and the easiest way to get into it. Now, regardless of your opinion of these new changes, one thing is for certain: we can't change the requirements. We can only abide by them, so if you're sitting there going what the heck are you talking about, what is even this YouTube Partner Program then bear with me. I will get into everything in just a second, so without further ado, let's hop right into it.

Okay, so, first of all, what is the YouTube Partner Program? Well, it's basically YouTube's way a saying that partners in this program are legit. There are legit enough to be able to monetize their videos, as well as generate revenue off YouTube red subscribers, along with a few other minor perks like being able to link to external websites and end screens and little things like that. Biggest reason why you want to be in the YouTube Partner Program is to be able to generate revenue off your hard work on YouTube, which is why you're, probably watching this video. So what are the requirements to make it into the YouTube Partner Program? Well, it used to be that your channel only needed 10,000 lifetime views and in the scheme of things, that's really not that big of a deal but as of January 16, 2018 YouTube has changed these policies.

A channel now must reach 4,000 watch hours in the previous 12 months and have at least 1,000 subscribers to begin the review of process. Now. It is also important to note that, just because you have met those requirements, it doesn't mean you're going to get approved. Your channel has to abide by YouTube's policies so if you're sitting there looking at your channel statistics like, I am right now going, what the hell YouTube.

Don't worry. It's actually a lot easier than you think to meet these requirements, and I don't want you to get discouraged. These numbers seem very big right now, so, let's break it down, starting with the 1,000 subscriber requirement. Let's say you go to school or work or play sports.

Whatever the case, throughout your average day, you see around a hundred different people, whether those be friends, family members, co-workers strangers, except every single day. You see at least a hundred people, so take advantage of this talk to people and tell them about your channel. If you really want to be in the YouTube Partner Program, that 1000 subscriber benchmark really isn't that big of a deal you're already going to be gaining traction on YouTube, if you're uploading videos, that's something important you to know. If you upload videos, you will get some traction on the platform, no matter what kind of traction it is, whether it be small or big or slow or fast, but you will gain traction if you want to really boost your channel, get it even higher than you Think you're gon na get it at then you got to talk to people and promote it on your own.

Tell people about it. Get those subscribers to know you personally. So the 1000 subscriber milestone is really not that big of a deal when you break it down and think about it, but the 4000 watch our time is a little different. So let's say that you have 25 videos that are about 10 minutes in length and then let's say only your mom, dad sister brother and dog watched your videos: 5 people, those five individuals watched all of your videos from start to finish.

That's already at thousand two hundred and fifty watch minutes which, if we convert that to hours we're looking at almost 21 hours, literally for doing almost nothing we're on our way to the 4,000 watch hour requirement. Let me put this into perspective a little bit more for you most channels from scratch. You get admitted in the YouTube Partner Program I have about, I don't know 35 ish videos. So again, let's say those videos are ten minutes in length and, let's say, you've got about 250 subscribers.

If all 250 of those people watched your videos from start to finish, you're, looking at almost 1500 watch hours, which is well over a quarter of the way to 4,000 watch hours, that's literally, if those videos were only watched from your subscribers alone. And if you didn't know this most views, I'm talking like 70 % of use here comes from non subscribers, so the people who already subscribed to your channel are actually the biggest source of your views every single month. So if you can gain some people interested in your channel get a few subscribers here and there upload regularly. This 4,000 watch hour requirement really isn't that big of a deal, but the key component is to upload regularly and if you're, still scared of this 4,000.

Our watch time requirement, then here's a protip live streaming. If you have the luxury and capability to live stream, then I highly recommend you do it. If you are a live stream for an hour once a week and let's say only 10, people were watching you that's 10 hours of bonus watch time a week to supplement the watch time you get from your videos plus when you livestream, you gain more subscribers. A lot easier because it's easier to find your channel when you're live, so you get a bit of a double whammy and bam.

These requirements really aren't that big of a deal and as intimidating as you think they are when you take a setback and break it down a little bit more sure I get it though I face value, it is very intimidating, but make sure you take a step Back and break it down and set goals for yourself, then you'll be there in no time, but if you're really passionate about YouTube, maybe want to make a career out of it someday and check out my website, Sean out, be calm. Gon na be linked in the description of this video, and it's really all over my channel. I've got some great content on there. If you want to be really successful on YouTube and if you're not interested in that no worries.

Fine by me, I've got some great content that I'm gon na be releasing on this channel, so maybe just hit that subscribe button, but again Sean's the name YouTube's. The game. Wish you all the best luck on here and I'll see you in the next video.