RESOLVING THE LEDGER
RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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New YouTube partners will now need twice the number of watch hours or Shorts views in order to qualify for a cut of ad revenue.
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New YouTube partners will now need twice the number of watch hours or Shorts views in order to qualify for a cut of ad revenue.
Read this reportCreators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.
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Starting February 1st, 2027, creators who want to monetize their channel through YouTube's Partner Program (YPP) will need at least 1,000 subscribers and either 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year, or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days. That's a sizeable jump from YouTube's current requirement of 1,000 subscribers with 4,000 watch hours in the past year, or 1,000 subscribers with 10 million Shorts views in the last 90 days. Creators will also need to maintain 10 million Shorts views over 90 days to earn money from the Shorts Creators Pool, though falling below ...
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New creators will face higher thresholds for ad revenue as YouTube changes how current partners earn money from Shorts.
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AIPROPX has consolidated 4 reports from 4 outlets into a single canonical entry on “YouTube is making it harder for creators to start getting a cut of ad revenue.” Every covered outlet is based in Other.
The earliest report in this entry came from Mashable (Aug 10, 2026, 17:14 UTC); the most recent came from Engadget (Aug 10, 2026, 18:53 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 4 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “watch hours”.
6 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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AIPROPX — “YouTube is making it harder for creators to start getting a cut of ad revenue” · https://www.aipropx.com/story/06e0a13cc3cdc0cc55a2676de1756bd6
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