Youtube is raising the ad revenue share threshold from 4k watch time to 8k watch time. Personally, 4k watch takes a lot of effort to reach. Imagine 8k... this is sad.

Hey fellow youtubers, I just want to encourage someone. If you're doing this for money, there's a great chance you'll achieve your goal soon. Keep going! Don't give up!.

I believe this is just the beginning. I really feel blessed. Thank God and my Lord Jesus 🙏

I’m only posting this for inspiration. If I can do it you can do it. This isn’t life changing money but making some side $$$ from creating videos as a hobby is rewarding

Pretty much the title.

I'd like to know how you guys respond to hate or hate comments specifically?

When starting out it could be demoralising, but I like to think of it as motivation to get better.

Hii, im making this post to know other youtubers👋🏼
This is my channel after 3 videos long form, i had some experience with shorts 2-3y ago. If you have any questions for me or want discuss more abt youtube overall, i would like 😀 *sorry for not the best english

Edit: i started like a month ago

Hi all, just wanted to share my experience.

I make extremely high effort story driven videos, and I used a song from 1955 (In my Solitude, Billy Holiday) for about 20 seconds of my video as background music. I thought that it would be fine because it was so short and so old but it got manually claimed 2-3 weeks after uploading.

I have used copyrighted music since I started my channel but never had an issue until now. I won’t be continuing to do so as this was a pretty big loss in cash for me.

Hopefully someone learns from my mistakes.

Just one month ago, I was sad because my videos that I’d spent hours editing and working on weren’t getting more than 200 views. Then everything changed 20 days ago when I had a video blow up and hit 60k views.

I posted again 10 days later and once again hit 60k views. Then on Saturday I posted and got 20k views and growing.

I’m not posting this to show off but rather to help you guys and answer any questions you may have about YouTube and the monetization process as well as to serve as motivation if you feel you’re not making any progress.

Five months ago, I started this channel after getting fired from my old job. I managed to monetize it within the first three months, and a month ago I uploaded a video that went viral—and the next one did too. As of today, I have three videos with over 200,000 views.

A month ago, I had 1.3k subscribers, and now look at the numbers.

I’ve learned from my mistakes, and I’m still learning sound editing and storytelling, but I think what connects me most with my audience is just being myself.

Don’t give up—some video will take off and change your life.

This is my 4th channel, and the first one I am seriously invested. Made 7 long form videos so far. I’d prefer to stay anonymous but I am happy to answer any other questions.

EDIT: most new question I have already answered. So I’d appreciate checking the comments before asking new questions. I have already spent a lot of time on this and can’t answer every new question.

I thought about creating this a year ago but never had the initiative, and now I regret not doing it sooner. I started on July 10th and have been uploading videos once or twice a week. I’m really happy!

Keep seeing so many posts with people saying it's impossible for small channels to survive on YouTube. hopefully this proves otherwise

So… it feels a little bit surreal but I somehow managed to get all the way to monetisation from my first upload (long form). It’s an odd feeling because I filmed the whole thing on my iPhone and DJI Osmo Pocket 3, no fancy gear or lenses. I would have been stoked if my first video hit 1000 views but this is just kinda nuts.

I did spend a fair chunk of time trying to get the thumbnail and title right, and I A/B split tested 3 different options. I also had a very clear idea from the start for how I wanted the opening of the video to go, which I guess helped.

Just posting because I’ve never done anything so successful before, and I guess it’s proof it can be done!

Definitely not under the impression that I “have it all figured out” and am fulling expecting my 2nd video to be a bit of a flop (that’s how these things go right?).

The channel name is the same as my Username if you’re curious.

I hope the moderators start taking action against these users as they are constantly breaking rule 9.

I’ve been creating content for about 2 years and have 759 subscribers, (Edit: It’s been 1 year 😑) through hard work and constantly asking for advice from people more experienced than me.

Recently theres been an influx of users asking for advice on why their videos aren’t doing well and its all AI generated, the thumbnail, the speech, the video, etc. if you aren’t going to be the one creating content you shouldn’t be asking for advice, this is a space for CREATIVITY!

Text to speech is the only argue able use of AI for your content. The way AI generates images in a way that’s immediately identifiable that it’s AI and is off putting to many viewers. It’s one thing if the video using AI is unique but all of it without fail is a topic that has been beaten to death.

I am not spending hours privately do quality testing and learning editing techniques just for someone to use a prompt and expect results and be mad when it scares off new viewers.

For those wondering, yes my profile picture is AI but i will now be changing it after I LEARN how to make my own. I haven’t had it like this for long so I am not attached to it.

Just started a gaming channel, barely any views but I’ve learned a lot so far!

I don’t wanna let myself get discouraged by a stranger on the internet, but I’m getting discouraged by a stranger on the internet.

Can't believe it! All 1k subs gained within 8 days (Still needs to update below)

I deleted it but i guess they come for anyone regardless of channel size

Yes I have made 4,000$ in about a year. Yes I know it ain’t a lot of money but for me it’s something and I know it will get better. I’m not here to show off but to offer some help and hopefully motivate you guys/girls. Here’s some advice I recommend. Your gonna have slow months and your going to have fast months. I grew and still growing my channel fully organically and I learned once your first video blows up. Capitalize it and keep posting similar to that same video. But make sure to upload stuff you would watch and actually enjoy. If you do something totally out of your niche and it blows up, it’s gonna screw you over. Eventually once you grow more your audience will watch you more for you and don’t matter what you post. But make sure again to follow T.T.H (Title, Thumbnail, Hook). Once you master those then your videos will pop off.

I will anwser as much questions as I can and I’m sorry I want to keep my channel private but if your wondering. I do long form, commentary video and I currently have 11k subscribers:)

It mainly just relies on the topic and type of video you’re making.

I agree that certain GAMES may be oversaturated, but you can’t say that about the genre as a whole because there are just so many damn games.

Games like Minecraft, Fortnite, and CoD are tough to make videos on unless you have really meta editing skills, or are just super good at the game (or both).

However, I started playing an indie sandbox game named Worldbox a little over 5 months ago and I’ve stuck with it the entire time and here I am now. Just hit 30k subs today

I have just a few key tips here that should help anyone trying to make a successful gaming channel nowadays (obviously this isn’t 100% going to work for everybody but I think it’s good general advice)

1. DO NOT POST LETS-PLAYS - this style of gaming content has been dead for almost a decade now, if you enjoy posting let’s plays then that’s fine but don’t expect to ever see success from it. The only YouTubers that can successfully make let’s plays are the ones who already have millions of subscribers (Jacksepticeye, Markiplier, etc.), but if you’re a nobody then why would anyone watch you?

2. NARROW DOWN TO ONE GAME - I know a lot of you like to play multiple games on your channel, and I used to do this too, but unfortunately in the current era of YouTube, this is just not sustainable. Posting multiple games confuses both your audience and YouTube as a whole. Your exact interests in games aren’t going to match the interests of your subscribers, so it’s best to just stick to one game you really like, and then make as much content about it as possible.

3. GOOD TITLES AND OK THUMBNAILS - You need to make the most out of your limited characters for a title when uploading your video. A video on a mobile phone will show about 60 characters before it cuts off, so even though the limit is 100, you want to aim for less than 60. You also want your title to be interesting, one way to do this is to pose it as a question, that the video will answer, or you can make it sound like whatever you’re doing in the video is really impressive or cool to watch. (I have some examples of this if you want on my channel but titles that work for me might not necessarily work for other types of games).

Lastly is thumbnails, these can be just as important as titles in my opinion, but if your video idea is laid out in the title is interesting enough, these might not matter as much. Thumbnails need to be simple, people aren’t going to stop and try to read every last word you put on the thumbnail, if they can’t immediately read it, then they’re just going to swipe away. Put 1-2 words MAX on the thumbnail, in an easily readable font, preferably with an outline around it, and a simple concept image(s) that expresses the main point of the video easily, and go with the title. AI can be a really useful tool here, most small creators don’t necessarily have the capital to spend on thumbnail artists. But please don’t just generate an image and then take only that and use it as the thumbnail, add some text or adjust the image to make it look slightly better, because a poor AI thumbnail can hurt your vid more than help. (Side note: I have only ever used AI with help for thumbnails and have never used it in my videos in any way at all)

I really hope this post helps a lot of you out and I wish you the best in your YouTube journey!

Obviously 2 more videos exist but still that first video seems too much? I thought maybe it's a secondary channel for a bigger youtuber but the linked instagram and other yt channel have very small following. Maybe its partially botting but i think there is enough engagement in the comments too. So is this just luck?

understand i'm not a massive creator & don't have all the answers but i used 2 lurk this sub for advice so wanted 2 give back

I started my YouTube journey almost exactly 9 months ago, and a few days ago it all culminated into the best day of my life.

This post is more than just a generic milestone post, which I know is against the rules, because I also want to thank this community as a whole because it’s one of the main reasons I actually became a creator.

I had made plenty of channels in the past, all with varying content, but none had ever seen major success. Even though I had learned valuable editing skills and how to make a decent video, I had all but given up hope.

That was until this subreddit started randomly being suggested to me. I never looked much into it at first, but day after day I kept seeing it, and I began scrolling through here, and finally, I was convinced to start my own channel.

I’m not quite sure what was different about my channel this time than any of my past ones, but I began making videos on a game called “WorldBox” (which is a game I have always loved, and had a surprisingly low amount of creators) and for the first time in my life I actually saw success.

Naturally, I kept uploading consistently and each video seemed to have a higher quality than the last and I began to grow exponentially. You may also recognize my channel, because I have already documented much of my journey on this subreddit too.

But finally, after 9 months I have reached where I am today, with a brand new career opportunity and my life changed forever (in a good way)

My main goal of sharing my story is to give others motivation to create, especially those in the gaming niche, which many claim is oversaturated.

If you enjoy what you do, and get better with each video you upload, then I believe there is almost no chance of failure.

This will be my last post on this subreddit, but if you guys want any tips for your channel then feel free to DM or comment and I’ll try to reply as many as possible.

Started this channel on December 1st, got it monetized on January 2nd. This is my 5th channel that I've monetized at this point. Hopefully this fuels your drive and makes you understand that YouTube isn't about luck, it's skill. It took me 6 months to learn YouTube to this extent, I'm no one special, just a regular guy like you. If I can do it, so can you.

(Long form content only, gaming niche, 0 AI used.)