as your channel has the same kinda content as mine i added you to my 'featured channels' listhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAS7EL-sm2_r4LqPTbaxX9w
Will do likewise
Youtube to end monetization on channels with less than 1,000 subs
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Soldato
Based on the last 365 days of analytics on my main channel (where everything is monetised) I got £1.07 per thousand views. Over the same period on my personal channel, where not everything has ads I still got 65p per thousand views.
This is entirely why they have done it. I make totally safe tech video's and probably 80% of them get flagged and I have to ask for manual review. Luckily I have enough subs and reviews that I can actually do this. Less than a certain amount and you're just stuck with their odd decision.
People ask for them, people watch them, they will get made...
Fairly sure this isn't the case. Demonetised means they wont show ads before it at all. They're concerned you've made some risky video that some advertiser would sue YouTube because their advert got put before it. It's not to stop you making money from it, but to stop an advert going in front of a risky video.
That's better than blocking ads as creators still get income for you watching.
Yes, you can check analytics for average viewing time, you can even see when people stop watching your videos.
For me it's only a little annoying. My main channel is well above the criteria, but my personal channel is around 250 subs, but I still have a few video's with 5 figure views on that, which would give me a few pennies each month, which is nice. They're reviews, but not of tech related things... but I guess I'll just re-upload them to my tech channel... even if they'll be a little out of place. It will be interesting to see if their high search result will continue on a different channel.
**EDIT** I just did some very simple maths on the 4,000 hours. If you average 2:30 mins watch time per video (my main tech channel ave's this), you're looking at 96,000 views a year to be monetised. That's quite a lot!
as theres a £60 threshold you have to pass to get a payout, what happens if you have less than £60 in your adsense account when they turn monetization off on the 20th of Feb?
will they pay you what you're owed or will they simply keep your cash? i cant find any info on that, this could end up being a big cash grab by Youtube :/
will they pay you what you're owed or will they simply keep your cash? i cant find any info on that, this could end up being a big cash grab by Youtube :/
If I were to guess I would say they won't pay out, but won't actually touch adsense. AFAIK they're not changing the way adsense works with putting ads on a separate website, just won't get money in it from youtube. Its kind of poop all round 
at least you guys are close to the 1000 subs, I was closing in on the 10k views but only have a dozen subs 
at least you guys are close to the 1000 subs, I was closing in on the 10k views but only have a dozen subs I'm at around £40 in my adsense account which is annoying as I suspect they'll hold onto the money until I can reactivate the service and then get myself up to £60. Kind of annoying but what can you do? Definitely going to claw back a nice bit of cash from various channels.
Soldato
Don't forget YouTube will be losing money with this action. Is it we get 30% and they get 70%. Think how many accounts they will no longer get the 70% from.
I dunno, youtube will still be showing the ads just on fewer channels, eg. a channel that's just over the monetization level, would maybe serve an ad 1 in 4 views might now be serving ads on half their views. Would basically mean that once a channel is past the threshold they'd make slightly more money and youtube would be making the same.
Soldato
Yes, so YouTube make money each time an ad plays. Ads will play less now, so they will make less money. Ads get served basically every time on a monetised ad, not 1 in 4? I don't see how they will make the same money?
I don't think ads will play less often, They don't show an ad on every view of a monetized video. As I understand it they sell views to advertisers in bunches. So coke will buy 100000 views on a specific ad, then youtube will feed those 100000 ads out to random viewers.
From what some people have said with the adpocalypse youtube has not had enough ads to feed to all the monetized videos. So all the ads that are being paid for are being shown.
From what some people have said with the adpocalypse youtube has not had enough ads to feed to all the monetized videos. So all the ads that are being paid for are being shown.
And I think this explains why YouTube are changing the rules. It must cost them some time and money to moderate which videos are monetised. Typically a more popular author will probably be more likely to stick to the guidelines and newer authors less likely to. Considering that this change will be unlikely to reduce revenue for YouTube they will be able to save time and money by not moderating monetisation on the lower viewed channels.
Be careful you don't get yourself dabbed on now, that would be most ungood.
Man of Honour
And do the Mexican wave!
I have £45 in my account built up via monetisation in the last few years after having a YouTube account and putting up videos for ten years with 55k views. I can't withdraw it until its at £60 so will never (realistically) be able to get it. **** YouTube.
Caporegime
I might start a new channel just of me unboxing everyday stuff, there is enough crap on there, surely people will watch me unbox my toaster.
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Oh also subbed
Would help if I linked it wouldn't it!
s://www.youtube.com/user/robbiekhandotcodotuk
Thanks!
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