It was evident that YouTube can’t manage their business. Enter Poppa Google and their new found regulations to bring peace to a company floundering and failing every turn they take.
Before this change Youtube only required you to have 10,000 total channel views to receive monetization. One of the requirements per channel is that it has to have at least 1,000 subscribers. The other one is that the channel has to have over 4,000 hours of watchtime.
When you break it down; 99% of those affected were making less than $100 per year in the last year, with 90% earning less than $2.50 in the last month. In another words, these channels were not using this income to survive.
On one side of the coin you have the ideal that YouTube no longer cares about the little guy. A channel you worked at for years and built it to 710 subscribers and 3,000 hours of viewtime is no longer “good enough.” It took so much work, that now that YouTube has put these regulations in effect, it really makes you want to quit.
The good side is that it appears that your smaller channel will not be regulated nearly as close as the top 5%. I have also found that since I stopped monetizing my videos I have acquired 68, 128, 47 and 77 views on my last 4 videos. This is very close to 80% increase from my average views of 42 views. My channel BeRuud has also had an uptick in subscribers as well, peaking at 18 news subscribers the past 3 weeks.
It is hard to tell where this is going to go, and what will really happen once these new regulations are in place. But for my smaller channel it seemed to have helped… at least for now.
