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Needs narration, or just general chat as you're working. You need to add personality into it.

Otherwise it's very impressive both the work and camera production. But it's a niche car and thus niche audience.

I look at this and it's not my kinda of car. But I'm interested in the build and the work involved. I'm also interested in how you manage it in such and small space and the boring practicalities of it all. Because I can empathize with that even if I'm not interested in that actual car. The narrative should contain that kinda of routine daily stuff.
 
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Being made redundant lately has given me a bit of time to do a little YouTube I’m quite enjoying it! Still only 240 subs I’ve been doing bits n pieces for years
 
YouTube demonetized my channel a few months back, due to lack of activity, which on the one hand is fair, but on the other hand, why should it matter? People were still watching my videos, YT was showing adverts... why decide to not give me a cut now?! I also now notice they have layers to the partnerships, so I can easily get the first layer back, I just need to upload a few videos, but the second layer, where you actually get money from the ads requires 4,000 valid public watch hours and I'm around 3,150 in the last 365 days. I'm now trying to decide if I can put enough effort into it again to get it monetized again...
 
AndyCr15 said:
YouTube demonetized my channel a few months back, due to lack of activity, which on the one hand is fair, but on the other hand, why should it matter? People were still watching my videos, YT was showing adverts... why decide to not give me a cut now?! I also now notice they have layers to the partnerships, so I can easily get the first layer back, I just need to upload a few videos, but the second layer, where you actually get money from the ads requires 4,000 valid public watch hours and I'm around 3,150 in the last 365 days. I'm now trying to decide if I can put enough effort into it again to get it monetized again...
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Need to keep an eye on mine. I’m on 7k+ watch hours last 365 days. I have posted since August, but it’s been interesting to see where my revenue is at when it flatlines with no new content. Seems to tick over at around 280 watch hours a month, generates enough revenue to pay my YT premium sub for life I guess! I’m gonna need to get that idle watch hours up a touch though.

My channel is seasonal though, will pick up again in spring.
 
AndyCr15 said:
YouTube demonetized my channel a few months back, due to lack of activity, which on the one hand is fair, but on the other hand, why should it matter? People were still watching my videos, YT was showing adverts... why decide to not give me a cut now?! I also now notice they have layers to the partnerships, so I can easily get the first layer back, I just need to upload a few videos, but the second layer, where you actually get money from the ads requires 4,000 valid public watch hours and I'm around 3,150 in the last 365 days. I'm now trying to decide if I can put enough effort into it again to get it monetized again...
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Need to keep an eye on mine. I’m on 7k+ watch hours last 365 days. I have posted since August, but it’s been interesting to see where my revenue is at when it flatlines with no new content. Seems to tick over at around 280 watch hours a month, generates enough revenue to pay my YT premium sub for life I guess! I’m gonna need to get that idle watch hours up a touch though.

My channel is seasonal though, will pick up again in spring.
 
how long did it take you guys to get monetised? i've only really started a week ago properly and have gained 28 subs it's seems like it'll never happen for me lol :cry:
 
Well, I started long before monetisation was a thing (annoyingly had a video go viral with 1.8M views, but no ad revenue...) so I think when it became a thing, I was already passed for monetisation. If it helps, I have 23k subs but only 5.7k monthly views and 211 monthly watch hours and I'm between the two stages.
 
ImMrChris said:
how long did it take you guys to get monetised? i've only really started a week ago properly and have gained 28 subs it's seems like it'll never happen for me lol :cry:
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Took about a year. My content is fairly seasonal and I do most of it spring and summer so quiet atm.

The 1000 subs are easy. The 4000 watch hours are more difficult.

For the subs, you gotta get your thumbnail game good and get that CTR to 7%+ to get pushed out by the algorithm. Spending £5 on ads here and there on your best CTR vids can get you a big chunk of the way to the subs, but tbh subs don’t mean ****. Most of your traffic doesn’t come from subs.

Obviously to get the watch hours up, making longer content, that keeps people engaged helps.

Ultimately, despite all the algo stuff, you need to make content that people want to watch, and YouTube will find the audience for you.
 
AndyCr15 said:
Well, I started long before monetisation was a thing (annoyingly had a video go viral with 1.8M views, but no ad revenue...) so I think when it became a thing, I was already passed for monetisation. If it helps, I have 23k subs but only 5.7k monthly views and 211 monthly watch hours and I'm between the two stages.
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I find this interesting as I only have 2.3k subs, but my monthly views roughly 65k with around 350 hrs watched. I am struggling to get more subscribers at the moment.
 
ImMrChris said:
It seems very much in favour for Youtube to make a ton of cash on new channels by making the process as sloooooow as possible :rolleyes:
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If you are struggling to meet the monetisation thresholds, you really aren't missing out on much.

The 300 watch hours a month which my channel ticks over at when I'm not posting, just about enough to monetise.....it makes about £14 a month.
 
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