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Per shot says, for monetizing my YouTube, do I need any specific number of followers and this is a

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question I get asked all the time, so I wanted to kind of tackle it.

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So, yeah, you need 4000 hours of watch time and a thousand subscribers.

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That's the threshold to monetize your content.

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Now, after you hit that threshold on your channel within a three hundred sixty five day window.

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So if you don't hit it in the first year, it's not like you can never hit it.

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That's like a moving year window, right.

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To a moving 365 days.

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So you just need to hit four thousand hours of watched time and a thousand subscribers within some three

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hundred sixty five day window.

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Eventually on your channel and then you can file and apply for monetization.

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OK, now, depending on how backed up they are.

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So because I monetize two channels now and actually have a third one in review.

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So my first channel, I think it took me like a couple weeks to get approved for monetization and my

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second one actually took me two months.

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OK.

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So there are certain things that you can do to kind of prompt that process along and kind of back end

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stuff.

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And you can search all that stuff on YouTube.

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You know how to actually go about doing that.

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But generally speaking, it's going to take anywhere from a couple weeks to a couple months after you

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hit that threshold for your channel to actually be fully monetized and for you get accepted into the

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YouTube partner program.