Youtube: 10000 views before advertising can start

[tangor]

YouTube has come up with a new restriction on who can make advertising money off of the online video platform. The company announced in a blog post that starting today it will not serve ads on videos produced by channels with fewer than 10,000 total views. That means any new creators looking to be in the YouTube Partner Program will have to wait until they accrue 10,000 total views on videos on their channel before they can start showing ads and collecting revenue.

[arstechnica.com...]
If youtube video is essential for your income stream via advertising, g has placed a new threshold to reach before it can commence. Appears to be channel based, not per video...

[NickMNS]

A new SEO service has just been created:
for XX$ we provide 10,000 views of your YouTube Videos on your channel.
or another service:
buy a YouTube account with a channel with more than 10k views.

[keyplyr]

That means any new creators looking to be in the YouTube Partner Program will have to wait until they accrue 10,000 total views on videos on their channel before they can start showing ads and collecting revenue.

I assume existing accounts are grandfathered?

[tangor]

Yes .... article does mention that.

[keyplyr]

Thanks - I got a server busy error.

[tangor]

This "news" is (over the last 12 or so hours) has different connotations depending on which news provider you access. Tech sites (most of them) view as threshold to help protect against copyright theft or politiical news as preventing ad dollars on extremist/hate. Either one has the same result: 10,000 before ad dollars commence IF APPROVED.

I see this as a buffer for g to have a little breathing room to protect themselves against ads appearing on content advertisers might not like. I also suspect that 10,000 will keep the small fry out of the ad pool, meaning that channels hitting that number are more likely to be popular enough to justify ad placement and will cut out all the microbillilng/transactions for g.

[keyplyr]

Agreed... this comes right after Google was loosing advertisers due to "questionable" video content. I also agree about the ad revenue.

Once again, it pays to have long-existing, solid content.

[tangor]

I suspect the 10,000 number was specifically selected to kill off ads for up to 40% of yt offerings. Can you imagine the computational SAVINGS that will make for the financial department and the reduction of staff needed to handle creator queries regarding ad commissions?

[keyplyr]

When I opened my first YT accounts, there wasn't an "approval" process. No wait time; I had videos up in a matter of minutes.

[NickMNS]

My guess is that the 10k views will also allow Google to analyze the traffic sources and approve or reject the accounts if the traffic originates from known nefarious regions of the web. Or reject it if the traffic fits a specific questionable pattern.

[tangor]

What it does more than anything is tell newbies you have to make the grade before we consider ads and that will put a stopper in the newcomers whining about their ad cut. :)

[keyplyr]

Lots of video watching bots to increase newbie numbers.

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