YouTube is making it harder to earn money on YouTube

Starting February 1st, 2027, creators who want to monetize their transmission done YouTube's Partner Program (YPP) will request astatine least 1,000 subscribers and either 8,000 qualified ticker hours implicit the past year, oregon 20 cardinal qualified Shorts views successful the past 90 days. That's a sizeable leap from YouTube's existent requirement of 1,000 subscribers with 4,000 ticker hours successful the past year, oregon 1,000 subscribers with 10 cardinal Shorts views successful the past 90 days. Creators volition besides request to support 10 cardinal Shorts views implicit 90 days to gain wealth from the Shorts Creators Pool, though falling beneath this threshold won't effect successful removal from YPP.

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